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Congratulations to 2022 Ig Nobel Prize winner Mariska Kret, for winning a new prize. Leiden University, her home institution, announces:
Mariska Kret receives new science prize for groundbreaking research
05 February 2024 — Professor Mariska Kret has received the Mercator Sapiens Stimulus, a new science prize from the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities (KHMW). The prize consists of a sum of 1m euros.
The prize is for a talented young scientist who conducts innovative, groundbreaking research. Kret conducts research into emotions from a comparative and evolutionary perspective. She researches emotions in not only humans but also animal species that are closely related to humans, such as chimpanzees, bonobos and orangutans. This involves working with various zoos and using new methods.
The earlier, other prize
The Mercator Sapiens Stimulus is a much more currently lucrative prize than the prize Kret received two years ago. (Ig Nobel Prize winners are awarded a ten trillion dollar bill from Zimbabwe.)
In 2022 Mariska Kret and colleagues Eliska Prochazkova, Elio Sjak-Shie, Friederike Behrens, Daniel Lindh were awarded the Ig Nobel Prize for Applied Cardiology, 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.
They documented that research, in the study “Physiological Synchrony is Associated with Attraction in a Blind Date Setting,” Eliska Prochazkova, Elio Sjak-Shie, Friederike Behrens, Daniel Lindh, and Mariska E. Kret, Nature Human Behaviour, vol. 6, no. 2, 2022, pp. 269-278.
<https://doi.org/10.1038/s4156
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