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…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Proper and functional innervation of the heart by the autonomic nervous system is critical for healthy cardiac function. Inadequate innervation or an imbalance of the two branches of the aut…
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…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Third Award
Objectives/Goals This project is concerned with the question of how to effectively praise students for good performance to make them better motivated, more confident, and more inclined to ta…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My project was to find out which gender has better short term memory. My hypothesis was if males and females take the same memory tests, then the females will achieve higher…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals People all around the world listen to music every day. Some claim it helps them concentrate, while others claim otherwise. However, in the early 1800s, a different kind of "…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals If the photo was in standard color, then the volunteer would be able to distinguish the persons ethnic background easier, because the facial features would be easier to reco…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) can cause posttraumatic epilepsy, currently 20% of all epilepsy cases are due to TBI. This research project studied the effects of TBI on PTE. The purpose of thi…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment was to see if young adolescents would tell the truth when under peer pressure. Methods/Materials Two batches of brownies were made following…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals It has long been a mystery to scientists why people are friends. This project investigates this question by using the Myers Briggs test to assess the personalities of pairs…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study was to learn about whether or not students who were stressed, whether it be about money or school, would also have higher delay discounting rates…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Mytlius edulis, more commonly known as the blue mussel, is located in a wide area of locations that have colder water temperatures, such as the New England area. To determine if climate chan…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals This experiment is an investigation into the effect of note-taking style, typed or handwritten, on memory recall as measured by the test scores on a practice SAT# II Biology…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals This experiment is an investigation into the effects of instant or video messaging on student's reading comprehension. Methods/Materials An opportunity sample of 39 students…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals My objective was to determine if video game play before a test can improve test scores. Methods/Materials Nintendo Wii U console Super Smash Bros. for Wii U Mystery Case Fil…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The objective is to find out if 'warping' the words impact the Stroop Effect. Methods/Materials To test how warped words would impact the Stroop Effect, I designed 6 tests.…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My project investigated whether changing the color of the same drink affected which drink people rated as the sweetest; I wanted to learn whether I could use people's own mi…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my project was to determine if age or population size affects conformity. My goal was to help my subjects realize that they do base their opinions, thoughts,…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The purpose of the experiment is to determine if the chemical Taurine repairs or prevents neurodegeneration in the chemosensory neurons in Caenorhabditis elegans, which can be correlated to…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The goal of this project is to see if it is possible to create a video game for blind people and if they will get the same amount of entertainment from the game as people wh…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals My project was to determine which thinking style (Divergent (a more creative thinking style that sees many possibilities) or Convergent (a thinking style that focuses mainly…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals Students and children today are creating cliques and deciding who their friends are based on what they themselves or others wear. The goal of this project was to discover ho…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The goal of our project was to develop a mobile application that aids color vision deficient people in identifying colors and helps children learn color vocabulary. Methods/…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The objective was to see how time perception is learned in children. We hypothesized that time estimation would become more accurate with age and could be learned with feedb…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals TO determine the percentage of high school students who have Anxiety Disorders, what the percentage for each disorder, and if the percentage of females is higher than that o…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals Where's George is a non-profit website (wheresgeorge.com) set up for hobbyists to track the natural flow of currency by entering a bill's information, spending the bill norm…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals My hypothesis was that the mathematical frequency of a note played on a piano could be correlated to a specific emotion. Methods/Materials After obtaining informed consent I…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project is to determine which ages best understand emojis. Methods/Materials Ten subjects from each of the age groups tested were asked about their expos…