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Social Sciences (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of the study was to find out if there was a correlation between the perception of intelligence and the perception of attractiveness. Methods/Materials Tests wh…
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this study was to determine if teenage boys would have measurably cleaner hands if they knew they would be anonymously tested for cleanliness. It was hypothes…
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of this investigation was to learn if the presence or absence of the net affected free throw accuracy. The hypothesis was: if the net is removed from the hoop…
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals Our project objective is to determine if cockpit noise affects the performance of pilots. We believe that increased noise will serve as a distraction, and therefore lessen t…
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment was to determine whether visual subliminal messages have any effect on viewers' color choice. Methods/Materials Three copies were made of a…
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals The goal of the project is to determine whether or not the age of a person has an effect on their "Total Optimism" score on Dr. Martin Seligman's optimism scale. The result…
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals The goal of the study is to find out how accurate observation is done by eyewitness. Hypothesis: I believe that eyewitness is not accurate and their details are sometimes fa…
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals My objective was to determine whether, in a two-player zero-sum contest, a player would choose a seemingly more powerful strategy, or select a less obvious strategy, recomme…
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals The goal of this project is to determine whether there is a correlation between accuracy of tonal replication and various factors. Methods/Materials Thirty eight subjects we…
Social Sciences (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals One day while talking with my friends, I noticed that some of my friends talked so near to me that it made me feel uncomfortable. Others talked to me from so far away that I…
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective is to see whether the normal traffic light sequence (green, yellow, red), the blinking yellow sequence (green, yellow, blinking yellow, then red), or the blink…
Social Sciences (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals This project investigates to which characteristics of the human voice -- pitch (frequency), amplitude, and timbre (overtones) -- people of all ages respond positively and ne…