2018年 イグノーベル賞 受賞者一覧
2018年のイグノーベル賞は、動物園でチンパンジーと人間が互いを真似る頻度の記録、ワインの専門家は匂いでグラス内のハエ1匹を当てられる、人の唾液が汚れた面をどれだけよく落とすかの測定、呪いの人形で上司に仕返しすることの効果の検証など全10部門を収録。
受賞者一覧
動物園でチンパンジーと人間が互いを真似る頻度の記録
Tomas Persson, Gabriela-Alina Sauciuc, and Elainie Madsen, for collecting evidence, in a zoo, that chimpanzees imitate humans about as often, and about as well, as humans imitate chimpanzees.
- 受賞者
- Tomas Persson, Gabriela-Alina Sauciuc, and Elainie Madsen
- 分野
- 人類学部門
ワインの専門家は匂いでグラス内のハエ1匹を当てられる
Paul Becher, Sebastien Lebreton, Erika Wallin, Erik Hedenstrom, Felipe Borrero-Echeverry, Marie Bengtsson, Volker Jorger, and Peter Witzgall, for demonstrating that wine experts can reliably identify, by smell, the presence of a single fly in a glass of wine.
- 受賞者
- Paul Becher, Sebastien Lebreton, Erika Wallin, Erik Hedenstrom, Felipe Borrero-Echeverry, Marie Bengtsson, Volker Jorger, and Peter Witzgall
- 分野
- 生物学部門
人の唾液が汚れた面をどれだけよく落とすかの測定
Paula Romão, Adília Alarcão and the late César Viana, for measuring the degree to which human saliva is a good cleaning agent for dirty surfaces.
- 受賞者
- Paula Romão, Adília Alarcão and the late César Viana
- 分野
- 化学部門
呪いの人形で上司に仕返しすることの効果の検証
Lindie Hanyu Liang, Douglas Brown, Huiwen Lian, Samuel Hanig, D. Lance Ferris, and Lisa Keeping, for investigating whether it is effective for employees to use Voodoo dolls to retaliate against abusive bosses.
- 受賞者
- Lindie Hanyu Liang, Douglas Brown, Huiwen Lian, Samuel Hanig, D. Lance Ferris, and Lisa Keeping
- 分野
- 経済学部門
複雑な製品の説明書を大半の人が読まないことの記録
Thea Blackler, Rafael Gomez, Vesna Popovic and M. Helen Thompson, for documenting that most people who use complicated products do not read the instruction manual.
- 受賞者
- Thea Blackler, Rafael Gomez, Vesna Popovic and M. Helen Thompson
- 分野
- 文学部門
座位での大腸内視鏡検査を自らに施して得た知見
Akira Horiuchi, for the medical report “Colonoscopy in the Sitting Position: Lessons Learned From Self-Colonoscopy.”
- 受賞者
- Akira Horiuchi
- 分野
- 医学教育部門
ジェットコースターで腎結石の排出を促す試み
Marc Mitchell and David Wartinger, for using roller coaster rides to try to hasten the passage of kidney stones.
- 受賞者
- Marc Mitchell and David Wartinger
- 分野
- 医学部門
人肉食から得られる熱量は他の伝統食より低いという計算
James Cole, for calculating that the caloric intake from a human-cannibalism diet is significantly lower than the caloric intake from most other traditional meat diets.
- 受賞者
- James Cole
- 分野
- 栄養学部門
運転中に叫んだり罵ったりする頻度と動機と影響の測定
Francisco Alonso, Cristina Esteban, Andrea Serge, Maria-Luisa Ballestar, Jaime Sanmartín, Constanza Calatayud, and Beatriz Alamar, for measuring the frequency, motivation, and effects of shouting and cursing while driving an automobile.
- 受賞者
- Francisco Alonso, Cristina Esteban, Andrea Serge, Maria-Luisa Ballestar, Jaime Sanmartín, Constanza Calatayud, and Beatriz Alamar
- 分野
- 平和部門
切手を使って夜間の勃起を確認する検査法
John Barry, Bruce Blank, and Michel Boileau, for using postage stamps to test whether the male sexual organ is functioning properly—as described in their study “Nocturnal Penile Tumescence Monitoring With Stamps.”
- 受賞者
- John Barry, Bruce Blank, and Michel Boileau
- 分野
- 生殖医学部門