prize winners of ig nobel from canada

- 2022 PEACE PRIZE
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”](https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10.1098/rstb.2020.0300) 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,
Contact in Canada:
- https://www.uoguelph.ca/psychology/users/pat-barclay

- 2020 PSYCHOLOGY PRIZE
Miranda Giacomin and Nicholas Rule, for devising a method to identify narcissists by examining their eyebrows.
REFERENCE: [“Eyebrows Cue Grandiose Narcissism”](https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jopy.1239) Miranda Giacomin and Nicholas O. Rule, Journal of Personality, vol. 87, no. 2, 2019, pp. 373-385.
Contacts in Canada:
- https://www.macewan.ca/academics/academic-departments/psychology/our-people/profile/?profileid=giacominm2
- https://www.psych.utoronto.ca/people/directories/all-faculty/nicholas-rule

- 2018 ECONOMICS PRIZE
Lindie Hanyu Liang, Douglas Brown, Huiwen Lian, Samuel Hanig, D. Lance Ferris, and Lisa Keeping, for investigating whether it is effective for employees to use Voodoo dolls to retaliate against abusive bosses.
REFERENCE: [“Righting a Wrong: Retaliation on a Voodoo Doll Symbolizing an Abusive Supervisor Restores Justice,”](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S104898431730276X Lindie Hanyu Liang, Douglas J. Brown, Huiwen Lian, Samuel Hanig, D. Lance Ferris, and Lisa M. Keeping, The Leadership Quarterly, February 2018.
Contacts in Canada:
- https://www.wlu.ca/academics/faculties/lazaridis-school-of-business-and-economics/faculty-profiles/lindie-hanyu-liang/index.html
- https://uwaterloo.ca/psychology/profiles/douglas-brown

- 2016 PEACE PRIZE
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”. REFERENCE: [“On the Reception and Detection of Pseudo-Profound Bullshit”](https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/0D3C87BCC238BCA38BC55E395BDC9999/S1930297500006999a.pdf/div-class-title-on-the-reception-and-detection-of-pseudo-profound-bullshit-div.pdf) Gordon Pennycook, James Allan Cheyne, Nathaniel Barr, Derek J. Koehler, and Jonathan A. Fugelsang, Judgment and Decision Making, Vol. 10, No. 6, November 2015, pp. 549–563.
Contacts in Canada:
- https://gordonpennycook.com/
- https://www.sheridancollege.ca/about/faculties/humanities-social-sciences/profiles/nathaniel-barr
- https://uwaterloo.ca/psychology/profiles/derek-j-koehler
- https://uwaterloo.ca/reasoning-decision-making-lab

- 2015 LITERATURE PRIZE
Mark Dingemanse, Francisco Torreira, and Nick J. Enfield, for discovering that the word “huh?” (or its equivalent) seems to exist in every human language — and for not being completely sure why.
REFERENCE: [“Is ‘Huh?’ a universal word? Conversational infrastructure and the convergent evolution of linguistic items”](https://markdingemanse.net/huh/) Francisco Torreira, and Nick J. Enfield, PLOS ONE, 2013. [a video accompanies the paper.]
Contact in Canada:
- https://www.mcgill.ca/linguistics/francisco-torreira-martinez

- 2012 FLUID DYNAMICS PRIZE:
Rouslan Krechetnikov [USA, RUSSIA, CANADA] and Hans Mayer [USA] for studying the dynamics of liquid-sloshing, to learn what happens when a person walks while carrying a cup of coffee.
REFERENCE: [“Walking With Coffee: Why Does It Spill?”](https://journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevE.85.046117) Hans C. Mayer and Rouslan Krechetnikov, Physical Review E, vol. 85, 2012.
Contact in Canada:
- https://www.math.ualberta.ca/~rkrechet/

- 2011 BIOLOGY PRIZE:
Darryl Gwynne (of CANADA and AUSTRALIA and the UK and the USA) and David Rentz (of AUSTRALIA and the USA) for discovering that a certain kind of beetle mates with a certain kind of Australian beer bottle
REFERENCE: [“Beetles on the Bottle: Male Buprestids Mistake Stubbies for Females (Coleoptera),”](https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/j.1440-6055.1983.tb01846.x) D.T. Gwynne, and D.C.F. Rentz, Journal of the Australian Entomological Society, vol. 22, , no. 1, 1983, pp. 79-80
Contact in Canada:
- https://gwynne.eeb.utoronto.ca/

- 2011 PUBLIC SAFETY PRIZE:
John Senders of the University of Toronto, CANADA, for conducting a series of safety experiments in which a person drives an automobile on a major highway while a visor repeatedly flaps down over his face, blinding him.
REFERENCE: [“The Attentional Demand of Automobile Driving,”](https://onlinepubs.trb.org/Onlinepubs/hrr/1967/195/195-002.pdf) John W. Senders, et al., Highway Research Record, vol. 195, 1967, pp. 15-33. VIDEO
Contact in Canada:
- https://johnwsenders.net/

- 2004 BIOLOGY:
Ben Wilson of the University of British Columbia, Lawrence Dill of Simon Fraser University [Canada], Robert Batty of the Scottish Association for Marine Science, Magnus Whalberg of the University of Aarhus [Denmark], and Hakan Westerberg of Sweden’s National Board of Fisheries, for showing that herrings apparently communicate by farting.
REFERENCE: [“Pacific and Atlantic Herring Produce Burst Pulse Sounds,”](https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10.1098/rsbl.2003.0107) Ben Wilson, Robert S. Batty and Lawrence M. Dill, Biology Letters, vol. 271, 2003, pp. S95-S97.
Contact in Canada
- https://emergency.med.ubc.ca/2018/06/08/2014-cfpc-em-graduates/ben-wilson/

- 1999 SOCIOLOGY:
SOCIOLOGY: Steve Penfold, of York University in Toronto, for doing his PhD thesis on the sociology of Canadian donut shops.
REFERENCE: [“The social life of donuts: Commodity and community in postwar Canada,”](https://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.item?id=NQ75205&op=pdf&app=Library&oclc_number=55885570) Steven Penfold, York University Ph.D. thesis, 2002.
Contact in Canada
- https://www.history.utoronto.ca/people/directories/all-faculty/steve-penfold

- 1998 STATISTICS: Jerald Bain of Mt. Sinai Hospital in Toronto and Kerry Siminoski of the University of Alberta for their carefully measured report, [“The Relationships Among Height, Penile Length, and Foot Size.”](https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/107906329300600305)
Contact in Canada
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/jerald-bain-98ba9942/

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