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Massive impact in the media of Ig Nobel awarded to INTRAS researchers

  • December 31st, 2018
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Hundreds of media have echoed the award of the Ig Nobel Peace Prize 2018 to INTRAS researchers as well as the event in which Dr. Francisco Alonso received the same at the Sanders Theater of Harvard University.

Dr. Francisco Alonso collected the award in his name and in that of all the co-authors of the scientific article "Shouting and Cursing While Driving: Frequency, Reasons, Perceived Risk and Punishment" and/or the research on which it is based : "Justice in Traffic: Knowledge and Valuation of the Spanish Population", on September 13, 2018.

From then until the end of December 2018, the news has had a great impact on more than 100 different media (press, television, radio ...) in countries on all continents of the world, especially in Spain, the United States and the United Kingdom. .

Some of these media in other countries have been: BBC, Boston Herald, The Guardian, Le Courrier Australien, Science on top, Sputnik...

Dr. Francisco Alonso has also granted several interviews to various national and international media that have requested it.