イグノーベル賞 平和部門 受賞者一覧
イグノーベル賞の平和部門では、2026年「人は自分の嫌いな相手に冷たい友人を高く評価するという研究」、2025年「飲酒が外国語会話を良くする場合があるか」、2024年「ミサイル誘導に鳩を使う構想」などを扱っています。
受賞研究
人は自分の嫌いな相手に冷たい友人を高く評価するという研究
友人関係の価値づけを調べ、自分が嫌う相手に対して攻撃的な友人ほど好まれる傾向を示した。
Jaimie Arona Krems, Rebecka Hahnel-Peeters, Laureon Merrie, Keelah Williams, and Daniel Sznycer, for documenting that we value friends who are vicious to people we dislike.
- 受賞者
- Jaimie Arona Krems, Rebecka Hahnel-Peeters, Laureon Merrie, Keelah Williams, Daniel Sznycer
飲酒が外国語会話を良くする場合があるか
少量の酒が、外国語を話すときの自己評価と他者評価にどう出るかを調べた研究。
Fritz Renner, Inge Kersbergen, Matt Field, and Jessica Werthmann, for showing that drinking alcohol sometimes improves a person’s ability to speak in a foreign language. REFERENCE: “Dutch Courage? Effects of Acute Alcohol Consumption on Self-Ratings and Observer Ratings of Foreign Language Skills,” Fritz Renner, Inge Kersbergen, Matt Field, and Jessica Werthmann, Journal of Psychopharmacology, vol. 32, no. 1, 2018, pp. 116-122. <doi.org/10.1177/0269881117735687>
- 受賞者
- Fritz Renner, Inge Kersbergen, Matt Field, Jessica Werthmann
ミサイル誘導に鳩を使う構想
動物の学習能力を軍事技術へ使えないかと考えた、時代性の強い研究。
B.F. Skinner, for experiments to see the feasibility of housing live pigeons inside missiles to guide the flight paths of the missiles. REFERENCE: “Pigeons in a Pelican”, B.F. Skinner, American Psychologist, vol 15, no. 1, 1960, pp. 28-37. <psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/h0045345> WHO CAME TO THE CEREMONY: B.F. Skinner’s daughter, Julie Skinner Vargas
- 受賞者
- B. F. Skinner
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
- 受賞者
- 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
人のひげは顔面への打撃を守るために進化したという仮説の検証
: Ethan Beseris, Steven Naleway, and David Carrier, for testing the hypothesis that humans evolved beards to protect themselves from punches to the face. REFERENCE: “Impact Protection Potential of Mammalian Hair: Testing the Pugilism Hypothesis for the Evolution of Human Facial Hair,” Ethan A. Beseris, Steven E. Naleway, David R. Carrier, Integrative Organismal Biology, vol. 2, no. 1, 2020, obaa005. WHO TOOK PART IN THE CEREMONY: Ethan Beseris, Steven Naleway, David Carrier
- 受賞者
- : Ethan Beseris, Steven Naleway, and David Carrier
外交官が深夜に互いの家の呼び鈴を鳴らして逃げたこと
The governments of India and Pakistan, for having their diplomats surreptitiously ring each other’s doorbells in the middle of the night, and then run away before anyone had a chance to answer the door. REFERENCE: Numerous news reports.
- 受賞者
- The governments of India and Pakistan
かゆいところを掻く快感の測定
Ghada A. bin Saif, Alexandru Papoiu, Liliana Banari, Francis McGlone, Shawn G. Kwatra, Yiong-Huak Chan, and Gil Yosipovitch, for trying to measure the pleasurability of scratching an itch. REFERENCE: “The Pleasurability of Scratching an Itch: A Psychophysical and Topographical Assessment,” G.A. bin Saif, A.D.P. Papoiu, L. Banari, F. McGlone, S.G. Kwatra, Y.-H. Chan and G. Yosipovitch, British Journal of Dermatology, vol. 166, no. 5, 2012, pp. 981-985. WHO ATTENDED THE CEREMONY: Francis McGlone delivered an acceptance speech via recorded video.
- 受賞者
- Ghada A. bin Saif, Alexandru Papoiu, Liliana Banari, Francis McGlone, Shawn G. Kwatra, Yiong-Huak Chan, and Gil Yosipovitch
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
ディジュリドゥの演奏が睡眠時無呼吸といびきに効く実証
Milo Puhan, Alex Suarez, Christian Lo Cascio, Alfred Zahn, Markus Heitz, and Otto Braendli, for demonstrating that regular playing of a didgeridoo is an effective treatment for obstructive sleep apnoea and snoring.
- 受賞者
- Milo Puhan, Alex Suarez, Christian Lo Cascio, Alfred Zahn, Markus Heitz, and Otto Braendli
もっともらしく無意味な言葉の受容と検出の研究
Gordon Pennycook, James Allan Cheyne, Nathaniel Barr, Derek Koehler, and Jonathan Fugelsang for their scholarly study called “On the Reception and Detection of Pseudo-Profound Bullshit”.
- 受賞者
- Gordon Pennycook, James Allan Cheyne, Nathaniel Barr, Derek Koehler, and Jonathan Fugelsang
公共の場での拍手を違法とし、片腕の男を逮捕したこと
Alexander Lukashenko, president of Belarus, for making it illegal to applaud in public, AND to the Belarus State Police, for arresting a one-armed man for applauding.
- 受賞者
- Alexander Lukashenko, president of Belarus
旧ソ連の弾薬をダイヤモンドに変えたこと
The SKN Company [RUSSIA], for converting old Russian ammunition into new diamonds.
- 受賞者
- The SKN Company [RUSSIA]
違法駐車の高級車を装甲車で踏み潰した解決
Arturas Zuokas, the mayor of Vilnius, LITHUANIA, for demonstrating that the problem of illegally parked luxury cars can be solved by running them over with an armored tank.
- 受賞者
- Arturas Zuokas, the mayor of Vilnius, LITHUANIA
悪態をつくと痛みが和らぐことの確認
Richard Stephens, John Atkins, and Andrew Kingston of Keele University, UK, for confirming the widely held belief that swearing relieves pain.
- 受賞者
- Richard Stephens, John Atkins, and Andrew Kingston of Keele University, UK
満杯と空のビール瓶ではどちらで殴られる方がましか
Stephan Bolliger, Steffen Ross, Lars Oesterhelweg, Michael Thali and Beat Kneubuehl of the University of Bern, Switzerland, for determining — by experiment — whether it is better to be smashed over the head with a full bottle of beer or with an empty bottle.
- 受賞者
- Stephan Bolliger, Steffen Ross, Lars Oesterhelweg, Michael Thali and Beat Kneubuehl of the University of Bern, Switzerland
植物にも尊厳があるという法原則の採用
The Swiss Federal Ethics Committee on Non-Human Biotechnology (ECNH) and the citizens of Switzerland for adopting the legal principle that plants have dignity.
- 受賞者
- The Swiss Federal Ethics Committee on Non-Human Biotechnology (ECNH) and the citizens of Switzerland
敵兵を互いに惹きつけ合わせる「ゲイ爆弾」の研究着手
The Air Force Wright Laboratory, Dayton, Ohio, USA, for instigating research & development on a chemical weapon — the so-called “gay bomb” — that will make enemy soldiers become sexually irresistible to each other.
- 受賞者
- The Air Force Wright Laboratory, Dayton, Ohio, USA
若者にだけ聞こえる高周波の撃退装置の発明
Howard Stapleton of Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, for inventing an electromechanical teenager repellant — a device that makes annoying high-pitched noise designed to be audible to teenagers but not to adults; and for later using that same technology to make telephone ringtones that are audible to teenagers but probably not to their teachers.
- 受賞者
- Howard Stapleton of Merthyr Tydfil, Wales
映画スター・ウォーズを見せたバッタの脳細胞の記録
Claire Rind and Peter Simmons of Newcastle University, in the U.K., for electrically monitoring the activity of a brain cell in a locust while that locust was watching selected highlights from the movie “Star Wars.”
- 受賞者
- Claire Rind and Peter Simmons of Newcastle University, in the U.K.
カラオケの発明
Daisuke Inoue of Hyogo, Japan, for inventing karaoke, thereby providing an entirely new way for people to learn to tolerate each other.
- 受賞者
- Daisuke Inoue of Hyogo, Japan
法的には死亡扱いのまま活動を続けた人物
Lal Bihari, of Uttar Pradesh, India, for a triple accomplishment: First, for leading an active life even though he has been declared legally dead; Second, for waging a lively posthumous campaign against bureaucratic inertia and greedy relatives; and Third, for creating the Association of Dead People.
- 受賞者
- Lal Bihari, of Uttar Pradesh, India
犬の言葉を翻訳する装置バウリンガルの開発
Keita Sato, President of Takara Co., Dr. Matsumi Suzuki, President of Japan Acoustic Lab, and Dr. Norio Kogure, Executive Director, Kogure Veterinary Hospital, for promoting peace and harmony between the species by inventing Bow-Lingual, a computer-based automatic dog-to-human language translation device.
- 受賞者
- Keita Sato, President of Takara Co., Dr. Matsumi Suzuki, President of Japan Acoustic Lab, and Dr. Norio Kogure, Executive Director, Kogure Veterinary Hospital
遊園地「スターリン・ワールド」の造成
Viliumas Malinauskus of Grutas, Lithuania, for creating the amusement park known as “Stalin World.”
- 受賞者
- Viliumas Malinauskus of Grutas, Lithuania
実弾の代わりに「バン！」と叫ばせた命令
The British Royal Navy, for ordering its sailors to stop using live cannon shells, and to instead just shout “Bang!”
- 受賞者
- The British Royal Navy
火炎放射器を備えた自動車盗難防止装置
Charl Fourie and Michelle Wong of Johannesburg, South Africa, for inventing an automobile burglar alarm consisting of a detection circuit and a flamethrower. (Patent WO/1999/032331, “A Security System for a Vehicle“)
- 受賞者
- Charl Fourie and Michelle Wong of Johannesburg, South Africa
積極的に平和的な核爆発実験
Prime Minister Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee of India and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif of Pakistan, for their aggressively peaceful explosions of atomic bombs.
- 受賞者
- Prime Minister Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee of India and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif of Pakistan
処刑方法ごとの苦痛の大きさの比較
Harold Hillman of the University of Surrey, England for his lovingly rendered and ultimately peaceful report “The Possible Pain Experienced During Execution by Different Methods.” [Published in Perception 1993, vol 22, pp. 745-53.]
- 受賞者
- Harold Hillman of the University of Surrey, England
広島50周年に太平洋で核実験を行ったこと
Jacques Chirac, President of France, for commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of Hiroshima with atomic bomb tests in the Pacific.
- 受賞者
- Jacques Chirac, President of France
戦争より殴り合う方が政治家は得をするという実証
The Taiwan National Parliament, for demonstrating that politicians gain more by punching, kicking and gouging each other than by waging war against other nations.
- 受賞者
- The Taiwan National Parliament
瞑想者4000人が犯罪を18%減らしたという結論
John Hagelin of Maharishi University and The Institute of Science, Technology and Public Policy, promulgator of peaceful thoughts, for his experimental conclusion that 4,000 trained meditators caused an 18 percent decrease in violent crime in Washington, D.C.
- 受賞者
- John Hagelin of Maharishi University and The Institute of Science, Technology and Public Policy, promulgator of peaceful thoughts
当選番号を間違えて80万人を熱狂させた懸賞
The Pepsi-Cola Company of the Phillipines, suppliers of sugary hopes and dreams, for sponsoring a contest to create a millionaire, and then announcing the wrong winning number, thereby inciting and uniting 800,000 riotously expectant winners, and bringing many warring factions together for the first time in their nation’s history.
- 受賞者
- The Pepsi-Cola Company of the Phillipines, suppliers of sugary hopes and dreams
人を集める独特の手法
Daryl Gates, former Police Chief of the City of Los Angeles, for his uniquely compelling methods of bringing people together.
- 受賞者
- Daryl Gates, former Police Chief of the City of Los Angeles
平和という語の意味を生涯かけて変えたこと
Edward Teller, father of the hydrogen bomb and first champion of the Star Wars weapons system, for his lifelong efforts to change the meaning of peace as we know it.
- 受賞者
- Edward Teller, father of the hydrogen bomb and first champion of the Star Wars weapons system