Madeleine Finlay
speaker
2,527 appearances
37 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard yesterday
Madeleine Finlay’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 37 in all, peaking in Aug 2026 with 8.
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Ian, it's September, which means back to school time, and for us it means the IG Nobel Prizes.
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These are kind of like the cheeky younger sibling of the Nobels.
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There are ten awards given out, and we're gonna talk about a few of them, but first I want to know, you cover these every year.
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What do you like about them?
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In as I was reading through the list of the prize recipients, I was laughing, chuckling away, as you said, out loud.
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There are some really funny ones, but the the first one that you're gonna tell me about is the economics prize.
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So who did this go to?
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Well, I think, you know, it would be very easy for listeners to be thinking right now, oh, typical Guardian, blaming everything on the rich.
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So it's good that there's some scientific legitimacy going on here.
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So tell me a bit more about what kind of situations they were looking at.
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on my way.
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Do the researchers have any theories as to what might be behind this difference in moral behaviour depending on class?
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Why you can steal candy from a baby.
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So this went to a study from a group of researchers who, at the time of publication, were based at Oklahoma State University, the University of Texas at Austin, and Hamilton College in the US.
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And there had been a lot of research before about the kinds of characteristics that we look for in a friend.
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And through all these different studies, the two main ones that would always come up are.
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Kindness and trustworthiness.
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And that's not a surprise, right?
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When we're thinking about what we want from a friend, we want them to be nice to us and we want to be able to trust them.
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But the way that this was always done is asking in the context of our relationship to our friends or the general characteristics of our friends.
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