Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals My question was whether a college students knowledge of cybersecurity would be associated with their password strength. This question is particularly important as young adul…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals Which gender, between eleven to thirteen year olds, will experience INMI (Involuntary Musical imagery) more, after listening to clips of three well known songs? Methods/Mate…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment is to determine if signage encourages people to recycle more in order to help the environment. Methods/Materials To experiment on how people…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Fourth Award
It has become well established that the gut and the brain communicate with each other in a bidirectional manner. The objective of this experiment was to determine if altering the gut microbi…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Emerging evidence is suggesting that exercise can be used as a primer for neuroplasticity. This relationship was investigated in the current study, by having three groups of participants com…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine how gender affects short-term memory recall of pictures, numbers, and words in 11-13 year olds. We predicted that girls would have a higher rec…
Behavioural and Social Sciences (inferred)
Masahiro Mori’s Uncanny Valley is the notion that as robots appear more human like, humans will find them more like-able until they reach a spot where they turn unsettling. This dip in likab…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Second Award
Objectives/Goals Our experiment's objective is to determine interrupted sleep's effect on cognition. Common diseases like sleep apnea and generalized anxiety disorder interrupt sleep instead…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) whether mild, moderate or severe, can have a direct and definite impact on a person’s everyday life. The initial treatment after TBI usually consists of inter…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals Determine the effect of all genres of music on the frontal and temporal lobes. Methods/Materials Headphones. Laptop computer with an iOS simulator. Students took the test on…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
My experiment’s purpose was to compare the memory and cognition of high school students when exposed to different levels of noise. For the second year of my project, I chose to add pink nois…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study was to determine if background noise affects hearing. Methods/Materials 75 students, scripts, downloads of background noise (static, music with w…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Insomnia is a condition occurring in 30% of Americans and it is known to significantly impair a person’s cognitive function (Pirone et al., 2016). While the benefits of lithium on memory and…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The purpose of this study was to determine whether or not multilingualism had an effect on working memory capacity and retention of information. The null hypothesis was that there would be n…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals I visited the Museum of Science in Boston and came across an experiment that focused on attention span. I was inspired by this exhibit to design a project to test visual dis…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
This study investigated expression of genes correlated with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and dyslexia on the vocal and auditory pathways of a zebra finch, a model for unde…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study is to compare the extent and effect of school burnout on adolescents in high and low-income schools. Methods/Materials The study was conducted ut…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
This experiment aims to discover how the omnipresence of media in today’s society influences a person’s perception during social situations. Given that the processes of emotion and social pe…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study was to determine if a high school athlete's assumed race, using name as a proxy for race, would influence subjects' perceptions of his potential…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
First Award
Facial expressions, particularly smiles, have implications for debilitating psychiatric disorders such as autism, depression, and schizophrenia, which make them a critical area for study. As…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Third Award
We carried out an archaeological investigation to determine if the authorship of the petroglyphs located in Caldera, province of Chiriquí, is really from the group known as the Dorasques. To…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Third Award
Objectives/Goals My objective is to examine whether awareness of incorrect posture, communicated through as reminders, will induce a postural improvement among humans of all ages. Hypotheses…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Second Award
Objectives/Goals In this experiment, we will compare growth vs. fixed mindset in Honor and CP level senior high school students and see if there is any effect of early class separation and g…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment was to test how different genders, ages, and grades reacted to being influenced to choose an incorrect answer. The hypothesis was that when in…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Culture is related to parenting style. It shapes the way parents take care of their children. In Asia, they live in patrilineal descendant group. Father is leading role. In Indonesia, especi…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The goal is to find out what people fear by filling out surveys about fears, and based on those results, determine if fears change with age. Methods/Materials I made a quest…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Second Award
The majority of Western nations are living on unhealthy diets with high amounts of sugar and few nutrients. This diet, coupled with a lack of exercise, is associated with higher incidences o…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Sleep is a fundamental building block for human health, directly affecting mood, safety, and academic and physical performance. Despite this, only 20% of adolescents receive the recommended…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
This project intends to determine how much of a social media user’s interests can be predicted by Twitter’s algorithms. The idea for the project stemmed from an article detailing possible Ru…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The purpose of the project was to contribute to seismic risk mitigation in homes and schools by increasing the awareness of high seismic hazard in a part of the population of the region Friu…