イグノーベル賞 心理学部門 受賞者一覧
イグノーベル賞の心理学部門では、2025年「知能をほめられた人のナルシシズム」、2023年「空を見上げる人が増えると通行人は止まるか」、2020年「眉毛からナルシシストを見分ける方法の考案」などを扱っています。
受賞研究
知能をほめられた人のナルシシズム
「あなたは賢い」と言われたとき、自己評価がどう動くかを調べた研究。
Marcin Zajenkowski and Gilles Gignac, for investigating what happens when you tell narcissists — or anyone else — that they are intelligent. REFERENCE: “Telling People They Are Intelligent Correlates with the Feeling of Narcissistic Uniqueness: The Influence of IQ Feedback on Temporary State Narcissism,” Marcin Zajenkowski and Gilles E. Gignac, Intelligence, vol. 89, November–December 2021, 101595. <doi.org/10.1016/j.intell.2021.101595> WHO ATTENDED THE CEREMONY: Marcin Zajenkowski and Gilles Gignac
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- Marcin Zajenkowski, Gilles Gignac
空を見上げる人が増えると通行人は止まるか
街頭で人が集団の視線につられる様子を観察した古典的研究。
Stanley Milgram, Leonard Bickman, and Lawrence Berkowitz for experiments on a city street to see how many passersby stop to look upward when they see strangers looking upward REFERENCE: “Note on the Drawing Power of Crowds of Different Size,” Stanley Milgram, Leonard Bickman, and Lawrence Berkowitz, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, vol. 13, no. 2, 1969, pp. 79-82. <psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/h0028070> WHO TOOK PART IN THE CEREMONY: Len Bickman
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- Stanley Milgram, Leonard Bickman, Lawrence Berkowitz
眉毛からナルシシストを見分ける方法の考案
Miranda Giacomin and Nicholas Rule, for devising a method to identify narcissists by examining their eyebrows. REFERENCE: “Eyebrows Cue Grandiose Narcissism,” Miranda Giacomin and Nicholas O. Rule, Journal of Personality, vol. 87, no. 2, 2019, pp. 373-385. WHO PARTICIPATED IN THE CEREMONY: Miranda Giacomin and Nicholas Rule
- 受賞者
- Miranda Giacomin and Nicholas Rule
ペンを口にくわえると笑顔になり幸福になる、ならないの発見
Fritz Strack, for discovering that holding a pen in one’s mouth makes one smile, which makes one happier — and for then discovering that it does not. REFERENCE: “Inhibiting and facilitating conditions of the human smile: a nonobtrusive test of the facial feedback hypothesis,” Fritz Strack, Leonard L. Martin, and Sabine Stepper, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, vol. 54, no. 5, 1988, pp. 768-777. REFERENCE: “From Data to Truth in Psychological Science. A Personal Perspective,” Fritz Strack, Frontiers in Psychology, May 16, 2017. WHO ATTENDED THE CEREMONY: Fritz Strack.
- 受賞者
- Fritz Strack
嘘つき千人に嘘をつく頻度を尋ね、その答えを信じるか決めたこと
Evelyne Debey, Maarten De Schryver, Gordon Logan, Kristina Suchotzki, and Bruno Verschuere, for asking a thousand liars how often they lie, and for deciding whether to believe those answers.
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- Evelyne Debey, Maarten De Schryver, Gordon Logan, Kristina Suchotzki, and Bruno Verschuere
夜型の人ほど自己愛が強く操作的だという証拠の収集
: Peter K. Jonason, Amy Jones, and Minna Lyons, for amassing evidence that people who habitually stay up late are, on average, more self-admiring, more manipulative, and more psychopathic than people who habitually arise early in the morning.
- 受賞者
- : Peter K. Jonason, Amy Jones, and Minna Lyons
酔ったと思っている人は自分を魅力的だと思う実証
Laurent Bègue [FRANCE], Brad Bushman [USA, UK, the NETHERLANDS, POLAND], Oulmann Zerhouni [FRANCE], Baptiste Subra [FRANCE], and Medhi Ourabah [FRANCE], for confirming, by experiment, that people who think they are drunk also think they are attractive.
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- Laurent Bègue [FRANCE], Brad Bushman [USA, UK, the NETHERLANDS, POLAND], Oulmann Zerhouni [FRANCE], Baptiste Subra [FRANCE], and Medhi Ourabah [FRANCE]
左に傾くとエッフェル塔が小さく見えるという研究
Anita Eerland and Rolf Zwaan [THE NETHERLANDS] and Tulio Guadalupe [PERU, RUSSIA, and THE NETHERLANDS] for their study “Leaning to the Left Makes the Eiffel Tower Seem Smaller”
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- Anita Eerland and Rolf Zwaan [THE NETHERLANDS] and Tulio Guadalupe [PERU, RUSSIA, and THE NETHERLANDS]
人が日常でため息をつく理由の解明
Karl Halvor Teigen of the University of Oslo, NORWAY, for trying to understand why, in everyday life, people sigh.
- 受賞者
- Karl Halvor Teigen of the University of Oslo, NORWAY
注意を向けると目の前のゴリラすら見落とす現象
Daniel Simons of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Christopher Chabris of Harvard University, for demonstrating that when people pay close attention to something, it’s all too easy to overlook anything else — even a woman in a gorilla suit.
- 受賞者
- Daniel Simons of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Christopher Chabris of Harvard University
政治家の性格は際立って単純だという報告
Gian Vittorio Caprara and Claudio Barbaranelli of the University of Rome, and Philip Zimbardo of Stanford University, for their discerning report “Politicians’ Uniquely Simple Personalities.”
- 受賞者
- Gian Vittorio Caprara and Claudio Barbaranelli of the University of Rome, and Philip Zimbardo of Stanford University
就学前児童の小集団における歓喜の生態学的研究
Lawrence W. Sherman of Miami University, Ohio, for his influential research report “An Ecological Study of Glee in Small Groups of Preschool Children.”
- 受賞者
- Lawrence W. Sherman of Miami University, Ohio
能力の低い人ほど自己評価が高くなる現象
David Dunning of Cornell University and Justin Kruger of the University of Illinois, for their modest report, “Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One’s Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments.” [Published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, vol. 77, no. 6, December 1999, pp. 1121-34.]
- 受賞者
- David Dunning of Cornell University and Justin Kruger of the University of Illinois
ハトにピカソとモネの絵を見分けさせた訓練
Shigeru Watanabe, Junko Sakamoto, and Masumi Wakita, of Keio University, for their success in training pigeons to discriminate between the paintings of Picasso and those of Monet.
- 受賞者
- Shigeru Watanabe, Junko Sakamoto, and Masumi Wakita, of Keio University
唾を吐いた市民を罰し続けた30年の研究
Lee Kuan Yew, former Prime Minister of Singapore, practitioner of the psychology of negative reinforcement, for his thirty-year study of the effects of punishing three million citizens of Singapore whenever they spat, chewed gum, or fed pigeons.
- 受賞者
- Lee Kuan Yew, former Prime Minister of Singapore, practitioner of the psychology of negative reinforcement
宇宙人に誘拐されたと信じる人は実際にされた説
John Mack of Harvard Medical School and David Jacobs of Temple University, mental visionaries, for their leaping conclusion that people who believe they were kidnapped by aliens from outer space, probably were — and especially for their conclusion “the focus of the abduction is the production of children. [REFERENCE: “Secret Life : Firsthand, Documented Accounts of UFO Abductions“]
- 受賞者
- John Mack of Harvard Medical School and David Jacobs of Temple University, mental visionaries