Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study is to determine whether humans can accurately identify other's happy or sad emotions purely through facial expressions. Methods/Materials Camera,…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Developed amid the Paris Agreement controversy, this spatial equilibrium model projects the environmental and economic impacts of carbon tax policies from 2012 to 2050. Simulating the Climat…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals Is there a connection between how much inatterntional blindness you experience and your personality? I will categorize subjects into Type A personality and Type B personalit…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
In a highly competitive global marketplace, creativity is one of the most invaluable tools for an individual or group to have at their disposal. Countries invest millions into research on ed…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals Our public transportation system must be able to provide affordable and accessible services for those with disabilities. The focus of my study was to review my area bus stop…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment is to compare three different exercises in an effort to discovering the most effective exercise for improving memorization skills for adults…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Fourth Award
Sundowners syndrome is a clinical diagnosis given to dementia patients. People who suffer from this experience heightened neuropsychiatric symptoms (depression, anxiety, agitation, confusion…
Behavioural and Social Sciences (inferred)
The purpose of this experiment was to determine if the starting pitch of a scale has an effect on a listener’s tonal perception, and therefore his/her emotion. Thirty-six high school student…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals This project aims to test if pictorial or written input is more effective when learning a foreign language, which in the case of this experiment, was Mandarin. Methods/Mater…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals While breast milk has numerous benefits to child and mother, the objective of this project is to prove that increased intelligence is not one of these benefits. Methods/Mate…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to see which gender judges which gender more based on appearance. Methods/Materials photos of both genders, T.V, pencil, computer, 50 volunt…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Third Award
Traditional analysis of text has been limited to an analysis of the content to extract meaning and intent. New technologies now allow us to also measure the process of creating the content a…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Today's children are spending over fifty hours a week immersed in technology (Burke, 2003) and yet, seventy-five percent of these children fail to meet the World Health Organization's recomm…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment is to test whether an active or non-active lifestyle can affect the memory of a person. This experiment specifically targets elderly persons…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Second Award
The phenomenon of lucid dreaming, the state of being aware within a dream, is rare and difficult to control. This study investigates whether multiple awakenings in rapid succession can simul…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Second Award
Maltreatment may arise in various forms, and not every case is as simple as violent behavior from parent to child. The purpose of this visual analysis study was to utilize images and videos…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals Our objective questions if students with experience as a musician possess stronger memory capabilities than those students who are not musicians. Our goal was to test a grou…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
With the increase in technology in our society, social media and "selfies" have become a trend that most teenagers participate in. For this experiment, we surveyed 556 High school students u…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this study was to determine whether mindset or aptitude was better indicator of learning ability of high school students. Methods/Materials My AP Bio class pa…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Third Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study is to determine if visual cues help the interaction between humans and machines. Methods/Materials Solar cell, headlamp, microcontroller (Arduino…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Fourth Award
This is research on public attitudes toward children with HIV AIDS (ADHA). This study aims to determine: 1). What is the societies’ attitudes towards ADHA in Surakarta; 2). What are factors…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to see if males or females, whom are both more inclined and not as inclined to posthypnotic amnesia, will be affected by neurolingistic prog…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project is to determine if preschool is a predictor of future success, as measured by a survey the researcher handed out, asking for success factors, suc…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Third Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of the project was to find out if cabbage butterflies demonstrate social learning and, if so, whether cabbage butterflies learn association tasks faster when o…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Second Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment was to investigate gender role stereotypes among young children. It was hypothesized that if the gender of a child affects whether he or she w…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Growing up I always noticed that the sections of the stores I shopped at were very different. The girl's section was always full of pink, and the boy's section was always dominated by blue.…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
We investigated which issues and criteria cause Wisconsinites to vote the way they do in elections and then broke down the data based on variables, such as gender. The survey contained quest…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Left-handedness and forced handedness (left-handed to right-handed, or vice versa) have been tangibly proven to worsen brain functions, through higher incidences of neurodevelopmental disord…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The purpose of this study is to isolate biomarkers of psychosocial stress by means of presenting scenarios with increasing stakes and observing changes in blood pressure, blood oxygen, and p…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
This research work is based on the search and description of information storage systems used by Incas of Peru, by means of quipus, an improved mnemonic procedure made up by cords of various…