Frenemy Lines

Fact # 4061|International Week of Science

The Ig Nobel Prizes honour research that makes people laugh, then think, and are handed out each year by real Nobel laureates. This year’s Ig Nobel Peace Prize went to a team of psychologists who found that we don’t always want our friends to be nice. Across six studies of nearly 1,200 people in the US and India, participants wanted friends to be kinder to them than to others, and sometimes preferred friends who were downright vicious towards their enemies.

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