2022年 イグノーベル賞 受賞者一覧
2022年のイグノーベル賞は、惹かれ合う男女は初対面で心拍が同期するという証拠、古代マヤ土器に描かれた儀式的浣腸の場面の学際的研究、便秘がサソリの交尾の成否に与える影響、成功するのは才能ある人より運の良い人だという数理的説明など全10部門を収録。
受賞者一覧
惹かれ合う男女は初対面で心拍が同期するという証拠
Eliska Prochazkova, Elio Sjak-Shie, Friederike Behrens, Daniel Lindh, and Mariska Kret, for seeking and finding evidence that when new romantic partners meet for the first time, and feel attracted to each other, their heart rates synchronize. REFERENCE: “Physiological Synchrony is Associated with Attraction in a Blind Date Setting,” Eliska Prochazkova, Elio Sjak-Shie, Friederike Behrens, Daniel Lindh, and Mariska E. Kret, Nature Human Behaviour, vol. 6, no. 2, 2022, pp. 269-278. <https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-021-01197-3> WHO TOOK PART IN THE CEREMONY: Eliska Prochazkova, Mariska Kret
- 受賞者
- Eliska Prochazkova, Elio Sjak-Shie, Friederike Behrens, Daniel Lindh, and Mariska Kret
- 分野
- 応用心臓病学部門
古代マヤ土器に描かれた儀式的浣腸の場面の学際的研究
Peter de Smet and Nicholas Hellmuth, for their study “A Multidisciplinary Approach to Ritual Enema Scenes on Ancient Maya Pottery.” REFERENCE: “A Multidisciplinary Approach to Ritual Enema Scenes on Ancient Maya Pottery,” Peter A.G.M. de Smet and Nicholas M. Hellmuth, Journal of Ethnopharmacology, vol. 16, no. 2-3, 1986, pp. 213-262. <https://doi.org/10.1016/0378-8741(86)90091-7> WHO TOOK PART IN THE CEREMONY: Peter de Smet, Nicholas Hellmuth
- 受賞者
- Peter de Smet and Nicholas Hellmuth
- 分野
- 美術史部門
便秘がサソリの交尾の成否に与える影響
Solimary García-Hernández and Glauco Machado, for studying whether and how constipation affects the mating prospects of scorpions. REFERENCE: “Short- and Long-Term Effects of an Extreme Case of Autotomy: Does ‘Tail’ Loss and Subsequent Constipation Decrease the Locomotor Performance of Male and Female Scorpions?” Solimary García-Hernández and Glauco Machado, Integrative Zoology, epub 2021. <https://doi.org/10.1111/1749-4877.12604> REFERENCE: “Fitness Implications of Nonlethal Injuries in Scorpions: Females, but Not Males, Pay Reproductive Costs,” Solimary García-Hernández and Glauco Machado, American Naturalist, vol. 197, no. 3, March 2021, pp. 379-389. <https://doi.org/10.1086/712759> REFERENCE: ” ‘Tail’ Autotomy and Consequent Stinger Loss Decrease Predation Success in Scorpions,” Solimary García-Hernández and Glauco Machado, Animal Behaviour, vol. 169, 2020, pp. 157-167. <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2020.08.019> WHO TOOK PART IN THE CEREMONY: Solimary García-Hernández, Glauco Machado
- 受賞者
- Solimary García-Hernández and Glauco Machado
- 分野
- 生物学部門
成功するのは才能ある人より運の良い人だという数理的説明
Alessandro Pluchino, Alessio Emanuele Biondo, and Andrea Rapisarda, for explaining, mathematically, why success most often goes not to the most talented people, but instead to the luckiest. REFERENCE: “Talent vs. Luck: The Role of Randomness in Success and Failure,” Alessandro Pluchino, Alessio Emanuele Biondo, and Andrea Rapisarda, Advances in Complex Systems, vol. 21, nos. 3 and 4, 2018. <https://doi.org/10.1142/S0219525918500145> WHO TOOK PART IN THE CEREMONY: Alessandro Pluchino, Alessio Biondo, Andrea Rapisarda [NOTE: This is the second Ig Nobel Prize awarded to Alessandro Pluchino and Andrea Rapisarda. The 2010 Ig Nobel Prize for Management was awarded to Alessandro Pluchino, Andrea Rapisarda, and Cesare Garofalo, for demonstrating mathematically that organizations would become more efficient if they promoted people at random.]
- 受賞者
- Alessandro Pluchino, Alessio Emanuele Biondo, and Andrea Rapisarda
- 分野
- 経済学部門
つまみを回すときの指の最も効率的な使い方の解明
Gen Matsuzaki, Kazuo Ohuchi, Masaru Uehara, Yoshiyuki Ueno, and Goro Imura, for trying to discover the most efficient way for people to use their fingers when turning a knob. REFERENCE: “How to Use Fingers during Rotary Control of Columnar Knobs,” Gen Matsuzaki, Kazuo Ohuchi, Masaru Uehara, Yoshiyuki Ueno, and Goro Imura, Bulletin of Japanese Society for the Science of Design, vol. 45, no. 5, 1999, pp. 69-76. <https://doi.org/10.11247/jssdj.45.69> REFERENCE: “Experimental Studies on the Rotary Control of Columnar Knobs — The Number of Fingers used at the Time of starting Rotary Control,” Gen Matsuzaki, Goro Imura, and Maseru Uehara, Proceedings of the Third Asia Design Conference, 1998, pp. 37-40. WHO TOOK PART IN THE CEREMONY: Gen Matsuzaki
- 受賞者
- Gen Matsuzaki, Kazuo Ohuchi, Masaru Uehara, Yoshiyuki Ueno, and Goro Imura
- 分野
- 工学部門
法律文書が不必要に難解になる原因の分析
Eric Martínez, Francis Mollica, and Edward Gibson, for analyzing what makes legal documents unnecessarily difficult to understand. REFERENCE: “Poor Writing, Not Specialized Concepts, Drives Processing Difficulty in Legal Language,” Eric Martínez, Francis Mollica, and Edward Gibson, Cognition, vol. 224, July 2022, 105070. <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2022.105070> WHO TOOK PART IN THE CEREMONY: Eric Martínez, Francis Mollica, Edward Gibson
- 受賞者
- Eric Martínez, Francis Mollica, and Edward Gibson
- 分野
- 文学部門
抗がん剤治療でアイスクリームが副作用を減らすという実証
Marcin Jasiński, Martyna Maciejewska, Anna Brodziak, Michał Górka, Kamila Skwierawska, Wiesław Jędrzejczak, Agnieszka Tomaszewska, Grzegorz Basak, and Emilian Snarski, for showing that when patients undergo some forms of toxic chemotherapy, they suffer fewer harmful side effects when ice cream replaces one traditional component of the procedure. REFERENCE: “Ice-Cream Used as Cryotherapy During High-Dose Melphalan Conditioning Reduces Oral Mucositis After Autologous Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation,” Marcin Jasiński, Martyna Maciejewska, Anna Brodziak, Michał Górka, Kamila Skwierawska, Wiesław W. Jędrzejczak, Agnieszka Tomaszewska, Grzegorz W. Basak, and Emilian Snarski, Scientific Reports, vol. 11, no. 22507, 2021. <https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-02002-x> WHO TOOK PART IN THE CEREMONY: Marcin Jasiński, Anna Brodziak, Kamila Skwierawska, Wiesław Jędrzejczak, Emilian Snarski
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- Marcin Jasiński, Martyna Maciejewska, Anna Brodziak, Michał Górka, Kamila Skwierawska, Wiesław Jędrzejczak, Agnieszka Tomaszewska, Grzegorz Basak, and Emilian Snarski
- 分野
- 医学部門
噂話で真実を言うか嘘をつくかを決めるアルゴリズム
Junhui Wu, Szabolcs Számadó, Pat Barclay, Bianca Beersma, Terence Dores Cruz, Sergio Lo Iacono, Annika Nieper, Kim Peters, Wojtek Przepiorka, Leo Tiokhin and Paul Van Lange, for developing an algorithm to help gossipers decide when to tell the truth and when to lie. REFERENCE: “Honesty and Dishonesty in Gossip Strategies: A Fitness Interdependence Analysis,” Junhui Wu, Szabolcs Számadó, Pat Barclay, Bianca Beersma, Terence D. Dores Cruz, Sergio Lo Iacono, Annika S. Nieper, Kim Peters, Wojtek Przepiorka, Leo Tiokhin and Paul A.M. Van Lange, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, vol. 376, no. 1838, 2021, 20200300. <https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2020.0300> WHO TOOK PART IN THE CEREMONY: Junhui Wu, Pat Barclay, Bianca Beersma, Terence Dores Cruz, Sergio Lo Iacono, Annika Nieper, Kim Peters, Wojtek Przepiorka, Leo Tiokhin, Paul Van Lange
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- Junhui Wu, Szabolcs Számadó, Pat Barclay, Bianca Beersma, Terence Dores Cruz, Sergio Lo Iacono, Annika Nieper, Kim Peters, Wojtek Przepiorka, Leo Tiokhin and Paul Van Lange
- 分野
- 平和部門
カモの雛が隊列を組んで泳げる仕組みの解明
[AWARDED JOINTLY TO TWO GROUPS] Frank Fish, Zhi-Ming Yuan, Minglu Chen, Laibing Jia, Chunyan Ji, and Atilla Incecik, for trying to understand how ducklings manage to swim in formation. REFERENCE: “Energy Conservation by Formation Swimming: Metabolic Evidence from Ducklings,” Frank E. Fish, in the book Mechanics and Physiology of Animal Swimming, 1994, pp. 193-204. <https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Mechanics_and_Physiology_of_Animal_S/orLvpB-EMgEC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Energy+Conservation+by+Formation+Swimming:+Metabolic+Evidence+from+Ducklings&pg=PA193&printsec=frontcover> REFERENCE: “Wave-Riding and Wave-Passing by Ducklings in Formation Swimming,” Zhi-Ming Yuan, Minglu Chen, Laibing Jia, Chunyan Ji, and Atilla Incecik, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, vol. 928, no. R2, 2021. <https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2021.820> WHO TOOK PART IN THE CEREMONY: Frank Fish, Zhi-Ming Yuan, Laibing Jia, Chunyan Ji, Atilla Incecik
- 受賞者
- [AWARDED JOINTLY TO TWO GROUPS] Frank Fish, Zhi-Ming Yuan, Minglu Chen, Laibing Jia, Chunyan Ji, and Atilla Incecik
- 分野
- 物理学部門
ヘラジカ衝突試験用ダミーの開発
Magnus Gens, for developing a moose crash-test dummy. REFERENCE: “Moose Crash Test Dummy,” Magnus Gens, Master’s thesis at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, published by the Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute, 2001. <https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2%3A673368&dswid=-2909> WHO TOOK PART IN THE CEREMONY: Magnus Gens
- 受賞者
- Magnus Gens
- 分野
- 安全工学部門