Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives The American ear will find the British accent more appealing because of the amount of representation it has in American media. The French accent will be the least liked accent bec…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study is to determine what is the most effective way to improve reaction time. It assesses how experience playing video games, an instrument, or a comp…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study is to measure the difference of degrees between head/upper back posture to texting posture in 11-14 year old students and comparing both males/fe…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
First Award
Objectives/Goals This experimental study examines whether branding (in this case, Google) influences people's consumer choices and satisfaction with products (in this case, styli). I used a…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The goal of this project is to determine whether in-product social media features can effectively reduce the spread of "fake news," or deliberately misleading information, o…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of my study was to determine which grade level and which gender had the most gender bias. I tested 1st, 3rd, 5th, and 7th graders at my school along with adult…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals This project was to determine if there is discrimination against women pursuing STEM careers and a stereotype of men being more competent in STEM fields that is preventing y…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study was to determine which text color has the greatest positive impact on comprehension. I hypothesized that red will have the most considerable impa…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study is to determine the effects of drinking Red Bull on the test subjects' performance of cognitive tasks. Methods/Materials Stopwatch, "Perfection"…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals Previous research regarding the relationship between motivation and performance has found that extrinsic motivation (incentives supplied by sources external from oneself, su…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals This project aimed to determine if exposure to blue light through screen time had any impact on the rapid eye movement (REM) sleep or the mood of a human sleeper. Methods/Ma…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Third Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study is to determine the effect of education and exposure on stress levels, as measured by blood pressure. Methods/Materials One sphygmomanometer, two…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study was to determine if the method of loci, a visual-spatial oriented mnemonic device, has an impact on long-term memory. The hypothesis was that the…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Discover and observe the impact of various frequencies upon the human memory capacity and effects upon concentration, cognition, and focus. Methods/Materials Materials: 7 Vo…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Second Award
Objectives/Goals My objective for this experiment was to examine whether or not organized imagery can help reduce or prevent a panic attack. Methods/Materials 12 organized pictures,12 disorg…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals My hypothesis is that people who listen to music that evoked happy, love, and peaceful emotions would be champions (ENFP), people who listen to sad music would be healers (I…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project is to determine whether people are excessively using social media. I hypothesized that teenagers would excessively use social media more than you…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder causes the patient to struggle to focus and have a low attention span. The drugs that are the primary treatment, are highly addictiv…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals This goal of this project was to investigate how different regions of the face are important for depicting facial expressions. My investigative question was: Which facial ar…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study is to evaluate if speech-disabled children can identify positive traits in themselves and improve coping strategies with bullying. Methods/Materi…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Third Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to determine the best way to educate people about environmental issues so that they will want to participate in environmental activism. Meth…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study was to understand the factors that influence how effective a group is in performing a task. The main question in this study was about how the gen…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
First Award
Objectives/Goals Basic color terms can be defined as words representing a wide set of hues, like "red" or "blue". Color terms differ from language to language. The goal of this project was t…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study is to determine how phones affect humans reaction time and how phones alter humans awareness to their surroundings. Methods/Materials 10 people,…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals This project was designed to discover how different types of stimulants affect the ability to perceive time. We hypothesized that sound would affect subjects estimations of…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals Our question is: How does false assurance affect test taking performance? We wanted to find out if when a student was told they did poorly on a test they would alter their a…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals My objective was to find out how pets affected humans stress levels. Methods/Materials Blood pressure cuff, timer, volunteers, and a pet your volunteers like. Results The gr…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
First Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study was to determine if six hours of sleep a night for a week made a difference in memory compared to sleeping for eight hours a night for a week. Me…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals In the US, space heating, cooling, and air conditioning account for 39% of energy usage in homes. The goal of this project is to find a way to reduce the amount of energy ne…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study is to explore the potential relationships between illegal immigrant population percentage and the seven types of crime rates collected by the FBI…