Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The goal of this project was to determine whether gender has an influence on whom people choose to trust. The experimenter hypothesized that when trusting people, 90% of fem…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The point of my experiment was to prove that being educated about autism does help that person if they were to meet a special needs child on the street or if they have to be…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The objective is to study the effect of musical tonality on the mood of the listener. My hypothesis is that if a tune is in a minor key, then it is perceived as sadder than…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Second Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this research was to understand the patterns among cross-modal perceptions of music, that is, how people from different intellectual, artistic, and socioecono…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of this science fair project was to determine which method of leaning is best; ipad or regular text. The amount of time to read a lesson and take a test on it…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
First Award
Objectives/Goals Enormous amounts of energy are being used every day to heat buildings, vehicles, and other places that human beings occupy. Taking advantage of how humans perceive warmth, i…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
First Award
Objectives/Goals Visual perception is a very important skill. It is especially crucial for school-aged children as it is needed to understand and decipher things, learn reading skills, copy…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My project is about which sweetener tastes most like sugar in lemonade. Among the four most popular sweeteners, one must taste closest to the lemonade with sugar. Methods/Ma…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals If there are bright light and right wall paint, then I can study well because straining eyes in bad lighting can tire a person quickly and bad wall paint will absorb surroun…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my project was to see how close celebrities facial measurements come to the Golden ratio, and whether the Golden Ratio which is commonly used in the modeling…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals What genre of music, if any, increases efficiency while doing schoolwork? I tested this because when I was listening to music while working. While researching, I discovered…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of this science project is to discover if the theoretic prediction of the outcomes by using Nash Equilibrium in economic games is valid and accurate in real li…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The ability to take good notes is crucial for learning and succeeding in school. Based on research, if the number of skills to understand passages is increased, then the com…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment is to determine if the perception of objects in our peripheral vision is influenced by the object's color. I believe that people will be abl…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals For this year#s science fair project I chose to investigate if numbers make people gender biased. Methods/Materials I used test subjects and a survey with the face of a baby…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project was to determine whether the number of views applied to an article affected adolescents' opinions of its credibility. Methods/Materials I manipul…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals I hypothesize that if volunteers watch two different campaign speeches, one including positive ads, the other including negative ads, then the voters will elect the candidat…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals Our objective was to determine whether high school students who are exposed to post high school options, such as college choices, are more likely to make more informed decis…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Third Award
Objectives/Goals To figure out if people react faster to sight or sound. Methods/Materials Materials: 1) Computer program written by Sebastian Roeder-Hensley, testing reaction times to sight…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals I have always wondered whether people learn and perceive information differently in color versus black/white. The purpose of this study was to determine if there was a diffe…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals We wanted to see if people in our community (mostly school students) can taste the difference between Coca-Cola/Pepsi and Diet-Coke/Diet-Pepsi. Methods/Materials 100 small d…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals To investigate if Transcendental Meditation will have an effect on blood pressure, heart rate, respiratory rate, and skin temperature. Methods/Materials Materials: Biodots,…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals My goal was to learn if students know the actual amount of sugar that is in beverages. Methods/Materials Materials: 6 different types of drinks: 20 FL OZ Gatorade, 20 FL OZ…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals Our objective was to find out whether or not the internet is having an effect on todays youth regarding suicide and self harm rates. Methods/Materials We gave out 249 survey…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The goal of my project was to see how news affects social media.My results showed that sports had the most tweets per article on average. They also showed that sports had a…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of my investigation was to determine if the colors of soda affects the way we perceive its taste. The project I did was a three part test. Those three parts we…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals With increasing demand for organic food, we sought to determine if human senses are capable of distinguishing organic from nonorganic food. Based on background research, we…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals This project attempted to find a thorough and efficient method for teaching writing. Methods/Materials To perform this experiment, 572 middle school students (22 classrooms)…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The quantitative objective for this project is attempting to determine whether non-blind individuals with no previous training on echolocation can echolocate successfully, a…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Parent provided "Children at Play" signs and other unofficial street signs are being used in many neighborhoods and streets throughout the world. Although these signs are su…