Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment is to understand the level of motivation to cheat in students when offered extra credit and to determine whether extra credit is the ideal for…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project is to determine if, and if so, how strongly, facial appearance can affect the outcome of political elections. Methods/Materials Official portrait…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project was to see whether a person is more prone to take a risk in a foreign language or a native language. Methods/Materials The materials used consi…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My objective was to see if the color of a drink would affect the way a person will think something tastes. Methods/Materials I used three pitchers of water with an equal amo…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose was to examine the relationship between teacher gender, student gender, and performance in STEM. Methods/Materials Two large counties in California, Alameda and…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals This research explores gender as an influencing factor in ones reaction to frustration; can behavior be predicted by a subject#s gender? Based on literature, the hypothesis…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my project is to determine which genre of music will give a noticeable difference in heart rate. I will learn if the genre of music has an effect on a person'…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My project was to determine how the brain reacts to different tastes, as measured by an EEG (electroencephalogram). Methods/Materials Using an Emotiv EPOC EEG Neuroheadset,…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment was to determine the effect of technology in early childhood education. The focus of this experiment was to evaluate if the amount of technolo…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
First Award
Objectives/Goals My objective was to learn if there is right light and wall paint in a room; then, the mood will improve to create better lifestyle for a person, because wall paint and light…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Second Award
Objectives/Goals Recently, I have been researching whether music or foreign language proficiency impacts the ability to distinguish the four primary Mandarin tones. As a Chinese adoptee, I w…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals For my science fair, my objective was to find out if typing notes is better than to write them down by hand. I choose this because I think it is important to know what way i…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals My project was to see if there is a gender bias in different levels of competition and age divisions at the science fair. Methods/Materials First, I contacted science fair c…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my experiment is to see if people think that women typically have lower paying jobs than men. Women still face bias in the workplace and some people who would…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective is to figure out what factors will affect a dancer's balance in positive or negative ways. My hypothesis was the dancers would balance the longest in a silent…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine if memorizing words in black text, in yellow text with a black outline, or as a naturally colored picture is more effective. We believe colored…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project was to find out how the factor of money in a person#s situation affects the way they make moral decisions. Methods/Materials In this experiment,…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals An online survey was conducted to assess people's moral judgments using the classic trolley problems. I ask: To what extent do demographic characteristics like gender and ag…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals This experiment explored the relationship between music lessons and listening skills, particularly pitch perception. The hypotheses were: If a subject has had music training…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective is to test if video games can prove to be a strong enough mental distraction to help improve an individual's ability to tolerate discomfort. My hypothesis is t…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Second Award
Objectives/Goals To investigates English phonological change (California Vowel Shift) in the Bay Area in the past twenty years, and attempts to explain the causes of the sound change and pos…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My objective was to learn if people retain more information by taking notes. I believe that the group that does not take notes will perform better than the group that did ta…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment was to determine the effect of the use of social devices on student academic achievement. Since the earning and unemployment rates are deter…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment is to determine how humans perceive information while external distractions take place. This study can be applied to daily life in many ways.…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective was to observe ideas of racism in children ages 3 to 8 who are presented with identical dolls of different races and to determine if children ages 3-4 exhibite…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Faulty eyewitness testimonies are the leading cause of false convictions in the United States. There are two primary photo lineup methods used by police: sequential (six pho…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals Reaction rate of human subjects will be tested to observe if talking on a cell phone and texting will increase their reaction time. Methods/Materials Important materials inc…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective is to see how accurately people can remember and reproduce a specific force level when they push on a deformable object where they can see the indentation, or…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The goal of this experiment was to see which positive distraction, on or near a local neighborhood street, caused the the greatest number of vehicles to to obey the law, by…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My goal was to determine if the amount of sleep you receive will affect your cognitive abilities. Methods/Materials 1. Record age, education level, stimulants; sleep/awake t…