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Behavioral & Social Sciences
Third Award
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by an obsessive adherence to repetitive motion, language, and behavior. Neuroligin, a trans-synaptic adhesion mo…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Fourth Award
Parkinson’s disease (PD), a progressive brain degenerative disease, affects over 10 million people globally leading to neurological deficits associated with tremors, rigidity, imbalance, and…
Behavioral & Social Sciences (Senior Division)
Individuals scoring high on the Dark Triad scale—a measure of three significantly positively correlated traits: narcissism, psychopathy, and Machiavellianism—are unpleasant and deceptive wit…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Subliminals are stimuli that fall short of the average threshold of the brain’s auditory and visual cortex which have been speculated to establish correlations in the mind that affect one’s…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Ergonomics is the study of creating a work environment that is appropriate to a user's specific needs so that their productivity is increased and the risk of injury is reduced. Most projects…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
First Award
The goal of this experiment was to determine the effect of the Intermediate Metabolic Switching (IMS) diet on the short and long-term memory of mutant Drosophila due to neuroplasticity. Ther…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Classical music is known to have a calming effect on people and has been used to study the effect of test taking abilities. By testing students’ speeds while taking standardized tests it was…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The EPA defines environmental justice as the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people regardless of race, color, national origin, or income, with respect to the development, i…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Drone technology has become a trailblazing feat in the scientific community and research is beginning to branch into the possibility of implementing drones into emergency response situations…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Career and Technical Student Organizations (CTSOs) are organizations provided for high school students that aim to improve high school students’ knowledge of career clusters, contextual inst…
Behavioral & Social Sciences (Senior Division)
Stress affects a person’s health in numerous ways such as headaches, sleep issues, or even illnesses. C₈H₁₁NO₂, or dopamine, a feel good chemical produced by our body is critical for functio…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Fourth Award
As scholars debate the persuasive effect of humor, multiple theories have emerged on its impact with the audience and its ability to fuel progressive social change. While multiple experiment…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Students' academic achievement could be affected by the disorganization of their study habits and chronotypes. This study aimed at designing a valid and reliable scale to help students to id…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
For decades, the representation of females in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) has remained low compared to males. Possible factors include gender discrimination, lack of ro…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Emotion regulation is the way individuals manage, experience, and exhibit their emotions. This novel study investigated how emotion regulation strategies were used during the COVID-19 pandem…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
In 2020, cryptocurrencies experienced significant growth due to increasing interest rates and a declining US dollar value. This resulted in a rapid proliferation in the price of Bitcoin and…
Cognitive Science
Second Award
Alzheimer's is the most widespread type of dementia with over 10 million new cases diagnosed yearly. Despite such impact, 20% of very mild, mild, and moderate Alzheimer’s cases are misclassi…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
High school athletes account for approximately two million injuries each year, suggesting that training loads are too intense. Finding an optimal method to monitor fatigue accurately, afford…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Students who exhibit more helpless behaviors will almost always perform worse in school. Schools may be inadvertently teaching these students more helpless behaviors through current methods.…
Cognitive Science
Honorable_mention Award
Cognitive Science
Fourth Award
Cognitive Science
Honorable_mention Award