Mariska Kret in the media about Ig Nobel Prize with Eliska Prochazkova
Mariska kret and her colleague Eliska Prochazkova, have been awarded an Ig Nobel Prize for their research into the 'romantic click'. This prize is awarded annually to scientific research that initially makes you laugh, but also makes you think. Kret appeared in various international media after the award ceremony to tell more about their research.
Partner choice is based on a gut feeling, what we call a ‘click’. You feel this with some people and not with others. Psychologist Eliska Prochazkova researched how this feeling of romantic connection comes about during blind dates. She discovered that synchronized heart rates and skin conductance reactions can predict attraction between two people.
Daily Mail UK
Eliska Prochazkova, Elio Sjak-Shie, Friederike Behrens, Daniel Lindh, and Mariska Kret were awarded the Ig Nobelprijs for applied cardiologie, for seeking and finding evidence that when new romantic partners meet for the first time, and feel attracted to each other, their heart rates synchronize. Daily Mail UK
New Scientist
The best (and also the non-best) science can make people laugh, then think, and every year the Ig Nobel prizes serve up some glittering specimens of this. The unlikely science that won this year's awards
Award ceremony Ig Nobel Prize
A few weeks before the regular Nobel Prizes are awarded in Sweden, the Ig Nobel Prize Committee presents the comedic counterparts. This year the ceremony was online, but normally the ceremony takes place at Harvard University. This ceremony is very different from the official Nobel Prizes award ceremony in Sweden. For example, the audience gets to throw paper airplanes at the winners on stage and an eight-year-old girl is tasked with cutting speeches by winners that last longer than a minute with the words 'Please stop, I'm bored'. As a prize, winners receive a handshake from an actual Nobel laureate, an ugly trophy and a $10 trillion bill. That's not bad, you might think. But the bill comes from Zimbabwe, which has been hit by hyperinflation and is, therefore, worth nothing.
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Ice Cream Therapy, Constipated Scorpions, Blind Dates — Studies That Won Researchers 2022 Ig Nobel
AP news
Eliska Prochazkova’s personal experiences inspired their research on dating that earned her and Mariska Kret the cardiology Ig Nobel. Prochazkova had no problems finding her apparent perfect match on dating apps, yet there was often no spark when they met face-to-face. “What we found in our research was that people were able to decide whether they want to date their partner very quickly. Within the first two seconds of the date, the participants made a very complex idea about the human sitting in front of them.” Love at first sight inspire Ig Nobels
Populair Science
Applied Cardiology: syncing hearts with your crush
Impakter
The Applied Cardiology Prize went to a study that revealed the success of a first date is not based on flirting, but instead on the synchronization of heart rates between a couple. The scientists leading the study suggested that this “physiological synchrony” is evolutionary, and down to the fact that “humans are social animals whose well-being is shaped by the ability to attract and connect with one another.” Ig Nobel Prize: Science That Makes You Laugh and Then Makes You Think
Arstechnica
Dating—especially blind dating—can be a special kind of hell until something "clicks" between two people and they feel a gut connection and mutual attraction. But what are the elements that give rise to that gut feeling? The authors of this Ig Nobel-winning study wanted to find out, and they decided to conduct their study outside the confines of the laboratory. Here are the winners of the 2022 Ig Nobel Prizes
DutchNews.nl
Gossip, enemas and blind dates: three Dutch scientists win Ig Nobel awards