Research on the image of Ig Nobel prize winner 2018

The way employees can vent their anger when being scolded by cyber-images is one of the 10 Ig Nobel prize-winning studies.

10 Ig Nobel prizes were announced last night at the awards ceremony at Harvard University, USA, according to the Guardian. This award was awarded before the Nobel Prize, in honor of the scientific work "made people laugh at first and ponder later".

The award category includes the medical prize for the urologist at the University of Michigan with research showing that kidney stones can get better faster when playing rollercoasters at Disney's theme parks; Nutrition award for the work of revealing the few nutritional values ​​of cannibalism and the literature award for research called "Life is too short for TRFM" , expressing the frustration of everyone with instructions for use.

Research on the human image of the Ig Nobel prize-winning economic network.(Photo: Amazon).

Lindie Liang and colleagues are psychologists at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, winning an economic award for their research on cyber-humanity. Wondering why people retaliate against their boss, who can dismiss them, Liang's group proves important to the staff that the sense of justice has been enforced.

In a series of experiments conducted at Leadership Quarterly magazine, employees were asked to recall when the boss took advantage of or bullied them, then half of the employees were allowed to discharge all their disgust on the figure. virtual."Compared to people who do not stab and torture their victims, the people who represent them represent their bosses have a stronger sense of justice and justice," said team member Douglas Brown.

Brown admits employees may want to find a more positive way to vent their anger after being insulted by a bad boss, but he does not reject the value of virtual revenge."Personally, I don't see any harm when torturing the cyber-human image, if that makes you feel better , " Brown said.

Speaking before the awards ceremony, Brown said he brought almost the whole family to the event and was waiting for a great weekend."This award is a bright spot in my career. We have to show people that science is not necessarily dry and boring. Sometimes you can make science fun and feel good all the time. process, " Brown said.

Another winner at the awards ceremony was researcher James Cole from Brighton University. British archaeologist won nutrition prize when proving cannibalism has no superior nutritional value and traditional diet better than cannibalism."You get more calories from a horse," Cole concluded in Scientific Reports. Cole's research helped clarify the reason for cannibalism in humans, ancient ancestors of humans and related species like chimpanzees.

Spanish researchers received a peace prize when checking how often drivers drove curses. They found that more than a quarter of volunteers occasionally cursed, only 2% admitted they cursed at all times.

Researcher Thea Blackler of Queensland University of Technology, Australia, won a literary prize to discover that most people do not use all the gadgets in consumer products and hate to refer to the manual when stuck."People don't want to see manuals and feel unnecessary. It's time to integrate a new system on the device itself, such as support software or smart assistants," Blackler wrote in the publication report. in Interacting With Computers.