The article headlined “Come On, I Thought I Knew That!” in today’s New York Times spotlights recent studies done by two Ig Nobel Prize winners. As per tradition, the Times does not identify them as Ig Nobel winners. The Ig winners, and the papers featured, are:
- Dan Ariely (Ig Nobel Prize in medicine, 2008) — “Temporal view of the costs and benefits of self-deception“, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Daniel Oppenheimer (Ig Nobel Prize in literature, 2006) — “Fortune favors the bold (and the italicized): Effects of disfluency on educational outcomes”, published in the journal Cognition