Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project was to identify corresponding trends in stock market changes in the countries of Great Britain, Saudi Arabia, China and the United States, as a…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals I have been playing and watching basketball my whole life. In the 6th grade I entered a free throw competition, and as I looked around at other competitors, I thought to mys…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals To test for the age group that had the highest amount of synesthetes. Methods/Materials 1. Surveys 2. Test subjects 3. Camera for documentation 4. Pen or pencil to record da…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine if memory is affected by recording information on a keyboard versus handwriting. This study is particularly relevant in today's society, as key…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The goal of this project is to delve into the potential association of cognitive aptitude, quantified in this study in the form of students' grade point average (GPA, with o…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals Aromatherapy has been used around the world for various applications-- stress relief, increase in alertness, memory improvement, relaxation, and even mood enhancements. In m…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment was to measure the effect of monocular vision versus binocular vision on optical illusion perception. The hypothesis was that if the subject…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment is to determine the effects of screen background color on computer users' reaction times. I hypothesized that when a green background is dis…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Third Award
Objectives/Goals This is an experiment designed to investigate the effects of texting on driving performance, as measured by the mean time necessary to complete a 2.1 mile course using the d…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study is to determine which gender can best identify the 3-dimensional mystery shape inside a masked box the most accurately. I hypothesized that males…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine if scent affects work efficiency. I hypothesize that scent does affect work efficiency. Methods/Materials Informed consent was obtained from 33…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals My objective was to determine if left handed people were more proficient with their right hand than right handed people with their left hand. Methods/Materials 30 left hande…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Second Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment was to identify how information such as age, gender, familial status, and criminal record affected whether or not a "prisoner" in a Prisoner…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals My project was to determine how large is the space between two middle school girls, two middle school boys, and a middle school boy and girl, when they meet or start engagin…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals For my project, I wanted to see whether increased parental awareness of a negative student behavior -- in this case, student truancy -- could affect, and stop, that behavior…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of the study was to determine the status of student's racial beliefs, attitudes and preferences. The researcher's hypothesis was that when given a questionnair…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of the experiment is to determine which color (blue, green, red, orange) will attract the most recycling content due to color association and its behavioral ef…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment is to test if people can determine the gender of a person based on only a picture of their eyes. Also, I am trying to discover if there is a…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals Our objective is to distinguish how many of our peers have a clear sense of who they are using James Marcia's Four Adolescent Identity States. If an adolescent is an uppercl…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this study was to determine whether the level of compliance with driving laws is related to the type of vehicles people drive. Methods/Materials Vehicle and d…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals (1) To find out whether or not a child's memory is better and more accurate than an adult's memory. (2) To find out if adults and children remember pictures, numbers, symbol…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my experiment was to compare trends in both male and female teens, analyzing rate of lying, types of lies, deception in relationships, self-perception, and fe…