Congrats to UW Psychology team winning Ig Nobel prize at Harvard University

Friday, September 23, 2016

Psychology study on bullsh_t wins Ig Nobel prize at Harvard University

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Congratulations to the team of doctoral graduates and professors from the Department of Psychology for winning the infamous Ig Nobel Peace Prize for their study published last year, “On the Reception and Detection of Pseudo-Profound Bullshit.”

The Ig Nobel Prizes "honor . The prizes are intended to celebrate the unusual, honor the imaginative — and spur people's interest in science, medicine, and technology," according to the Ig Nobel website.

 (alumnus, now a postdoctoral fellow at Yale University), Prof. Emeritus Allan Cheyne, Nathaniel Barr (alumnus, now a faculty member at Sheridan College), Prof. Derek Koehler, and Prof. Jonathan Fugelsang where celebrated last night in Boston  on bullsh_t, which, not surprisingly, received a lot of media attention when it was published in November 2015.

This Ig Nobel-recognized work is not the first to make an impact. As a PhD candidate, Pennycook, and Barr as a postdoc at ݮƵ,  co-led a study on smartphone use and lazy thinking, which was covered by more than 700 media outlets worldwide.