Browse 83 real Behavioural and Social Sciences projects entered in 2007, with abstracts, awards and links to the original entries.
CSEF · 2007
Behavioral & Social Sciences First Award
Objectives/Goals How does gender affect behavioral responses to frustration? My objective is to record subjects' responses to a frustrating task and analyze gender differences. Backed by cur…
CSEF · 2007
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals Does age affect memory? Methods/Materials Procedure: 1. Test first group, one after another 2. Previously record short video and demonstrate to my subjects 3. Test memory wi…
CSEF · 2007
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project was to see if students would comprehend things better by reading aloud or by reading silently. Methods/Materials Fifty- six students were teste…
CSEF · 2007
Behavioral & Social Sciences Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals I am trying to identify what causes people to vary in their math ability, with the goal of developing teaching methods to target specific deficits. Math skills are tradition…
CSEF · 2007
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my science project was to find out how what people consider art compares with what is considered art by critics and art museums, and whether this consideratio…
CSEF · 2007
Behavioral & Social Sciences Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Dental school is a stressful experience, but there is little research on factors that can mitigate stress. This longitudinal study tests the hypotheses that positive attitud…
CSEF · 2007
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals I heard about a case in which a pedestrian, in a crosswalk was injured by a school bus. The bus driver said that she did not see the woman in the crosswalk. The woman was in…
CSEF · 2007
Behavioral & Social Sciences Second Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this study is to verify if women#s hair color makes a noticeable difference in social perception of women#s intelligence. Methods/Materials Using Adobe Photos…
CSEF · 2007
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals My hypothesis stated that handwriting changes by mood/state of mind. The question was posed whether one can use graphology to measure and characterize a person#s state of mi…
CSEF · 2007
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my project is to determine if the brain can see a misspelled word and translate it to what it was intended to say. Methods/Materials Over a period of several…
CSEF · 2007
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals Our goals were to find what to drink that best cools your mouth after drinking something spicy. Methods/Materials We used a 1 to 20 scale. Materials: soda, half and half, le…
CSEF · 2007
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to determine if a cell-phone conversation while driving will affect reaction time. I believe that talking on a cell-phone while driving will…
CSEF · 2007
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals This study looks at the effect of ingesting chocolate on the ability of its participants to perform a simple mental task, addition of single digit numbers. Methods/Materials…
CSEF · 2007
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my study was to test Little's Law and the science of queuing theory. If queuing theory can be used to predict the real life behavior of people standing in lin…
CSEF · 2007
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project was to find out what age group of people can recognize shapes the fastest. It would help companies, who are targeting a certain age group, know…
CSEF · 2007
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The goal of this experiment is to determine if there is a scientific link between hair color and Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). If there is a link between…
CSEF · 2007
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals I wanted to investigate the question if short-term memory was affected by one's age. Methods/Materials 1. An I Spy picture book; 2. A timer; 3. Test subjects (40 people divi…
CSEF · 2007
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals In my experiment I was trying to figure out if there was a correlation between birth order and personality type. I hypothesized that there was going to be a certain pattern…
CSEF · 2007
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals To prove or disprove the hypothesis that age (and gender)do effect a person's fears. Methods/Materials The first step was to compile a list of commom fears and list them on…
CSEF · 2007
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my project is to determine the reliability of eyewitness testimony . In a trial, the jury needs irrefutable evidence to send someone to jail. Niether the jury…
CSEF · 2007
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective/goal of our project was to find out if, when looking at 11 optical illusions, boys saw different images than girls. We predicted that there would be 5 differen…
CSEF · 2007
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project was to determine if the presentation of color words will have an affect on the subjects ability to respond correctly when asked to specify word o…
CSEF · 2007
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my experimentis to see if talking on a cell phone while driving impairs the ability of that driver. My hypothesis is that talking on a cell phone while drivin…
CSEF · 2007
Behavioral & Social Sciences Third Award
Objectives/Goals To study the effects of age and gender on choices in the Prisoner's Dilemma game. Methods/Materials 137 students (age 10-17) were offered candy rewards in a Prisoner's Dilem…
CSEF · 2007
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The experiment consists the measurement of a mouse intelligence while crossing a maze. I did my investigation on what alcohol can do to the human body and how mice live. I h…
CSEF · 2007
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals This second-year study was designed to test whether fear-inducing two-dimensional visual images would result in an increase in cognitive ability. My hypothesis was that fear…
CSEF · 2007
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The theory of human evolution has been a subject of debate since its conception. Recently, scientists stumbled across a family in Turkey that walks on all fours, which some…
CSEF · 2007
Behavioral & Social Sciences Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The goal of this behavioral science experiment is to determine whether people who wear eyeglasses are perceived by others to be more intelligent than people who do not wear…
CSEF · 2007
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals Problem Statement: The question is, are girls better eyewitnesses than boys? Hypothesis: If girls see a crime, then they're better eyewitnesses than boys. Methods/Materials…
CSEF · 2007
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals My objective was to determine if a person performing an attentionally demanding task (counting basketball bounces)would notice an obvious detail(gorilla) if it were presente…