Drinking would give the feeling of being irresistible … Each year, the Ig Nobels reward improbable and offbeat scientific work. A team from Grenoble is in the spotlight.
People who drink think they are more attractive than others! And beware, this better self-perception is not due to the effects of alcohol on the body but to a placebo effect, according to a study carried out by the Inter-University Psychology Laboratory (Lip) of Grenoble in partnership with the University of Ohio and published in May 2012 in the British Journal of Psychology. For this improbable discovery, which undoubtedly explains some disappointments in bars on Saturday evening, Grenoble psychology researchers received this week a ” Ig Nobel At the American University of Harvard.
In fact, the Ig Nobels are a parody of the famous Nobel Prizes awarded each year on December 10. Created in 1991 by the magazine “Annals of Improbable Research”, these prizes are presented in September by real Nobel laureates during a humorous ceremony at the prestigious University of Massachusetts. Thus, the laureates receive as a reward a splendid icebreaker hammer … “The Ig Nobel Prizes crown feats that make people laugh at first, and then make them think,” explain the organizers every year. These awards are intended to honor originality and honor the imagination – as well as to spark people’s interest in science, medicine and technology. ”
For this 23e edition, the Ig Nobel jury highlighted other funny and implausible studies. Thus, a Japanese team from Tokyo received the Ig Nobel for medicine for showing the interest in listening to music after a heart transplant in mice! Their experience has shown that without music, transplanted mice survive an average of seven days. But, if they listen to La Traviata de Verdi, then they survive 27 days! Popular music seems less effective since the mice that listened to Irish singer Enya survived 11 days.
The Ig Nobel in Physics was obtained by an Italian team that sought to discover the threshold of gravity above which human beings could walk on water. This Milan team thus demonstrated that we could run without sinking on the Moon but not on Mars. A notion to remember before choosing your vacation destination in space …
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