Ig-nobel prize 2010 for prof.dr. Ilja van Beest
December 14, 2010 - Simon Rietveld and Ilja van Beest (Tilburg University) were awarded the Ig-nobel prize for their research on asthma. They used roller coaster rides to induce emotions and showed that the valence of emotions affected the relation between self-reported breathlessness and actual lung function. This prize is awarded to science that makes you first laugh and then think.
Rietveld, S., & Van Beest, I. (2006) Rollercoaster asthma: When positive emotional stress interferes with dyspnea perception. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 45, 997-987.
Link: http://improbable.com/ig/
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