Browse 89 real Behavioural and Social Sciences projects entered in 2010, with abstracts, awards and links to the original entries.
CSEF · 2010
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals This project investigated the effects of subliminal messaging by using color. I created three commercials advertising red licorice with three different color schemes (red, w…
CSEF · 2010
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals This project examines the longitudinal effects of volunteering on humanitarian missions and in a free clinic on pre-dental students' attitudes. It is hypothesized that pre-d…
CSEF · 2010
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals Social psychology is a major science applicable to almost every city on the planet, a subject of intense research over the past few decades. Prosocial, or helping, behavior,…
CSEF · 2010
Behavioral & Social Sciences First Award
Objectives/Goals Unwarranted variation, a phenomenon in the healthcare sector, refers to wide ranges of discharge rates, Medicare payments, and, most crucially, care delivery. Unwarranted va…
CSEF · 2010
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) Third Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project was to determine if medium chain triglycerides found in coconut oil could become an alternative fuel in bringing glucose to the dormant regions…
CSEF · 2010
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals My goal was to find out what percent of teenagers is overindulged and the prevailing differences between the indulged and the non-indulged teens. Methods/Materials I created…
CSEF · 2010
Behavioral & Social Sciences Third Award
Objectives/Goals Theories of language acquisition differ significantly in their treatment of the extent of abstractness in language. Nativist theories emphasize language acquisition as an ab…
CSEF · 2010
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study was to examine how city sounds and forest sounds may affect stress in subjects as measured by fluctuations in clinical measurements and salivary…
CSEF · 2010
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals My goal was to discover if the angles professional dancers demonstrate with their legs in a grande jete leap correlate with their esteem within the dance community. Methods/…
CSEF · 2010
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals Our project was designed to test the intricate and essential importance of body language to the reflection of comprehension in human interaction. Our experiment tested a bro…
CSEF · 2010
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective was to determine which age group and gender would be more susceptible to implanting a false memory as time elapses. Methods/Materials I found 30 volunteer subj…
CSEF · 2010
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The purpose of the performed experiment was to prove or disprove the statement that exercise could help people remember objects on a cognitive test, and to help educators un…
CSEF · 2010
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals This project will measure changes in physiology and intellectual performance due to stress. Stressed subjects will exhibit measurable physiological changes and decreased int…
CSEF · 2010
Behavioral & Social Sciences First Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this study was to understand cheating, the academic epidemic. Several hypotheses were developed regarding incidence, gender, student standings, and teacher pe…
CSEF · 2010
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals To prove or disprove the hypothesis that the human mind does not read every letter by itself but the word as a whole. Hypothesis to be proven if at least 50% of the people s…
CSEF · 2010
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals This is an experiment designed to investigate the effects of cognitive scaffolding, demonstrated through the item order of standardized test questions, on the score received…
CSEF · 2010
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) Second Award
Objectives/Goals My project is about digital image forensics. I created a set of digitally manipulated images using Adobe Photoshop, a photo-editing software. The primary goal is to explore…
CSEF · 2010
Behavioral & Social Sciences Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to determine if childproof containers are really safe from children. Are children safe from childproof containers at their own house. Method…
CSEF · 2010
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project is to prove that if people use mnemonic devices, they will have an easier time learning information in the field of memory. My goal is to make ed…
CSEF · 2010
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My objective was to learn if humans can improve their own automatic number sense, or if the ability is innate and set at birth. In addition, I wanted to determine if there i…
CSEF · 2010
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My objective is to see if rearranging the letters in a word affects the readers fluency and accuracy. Methods/Materials Human subjects were randomly picked in two age groups…
CSEF · 2010
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The Hypothesis of our experiment was to determine if first impression affects voting results (senate election, in particular). Methods/Materials Our project was conducted un…
CSEF · 2010
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of our project was to determine whether people will judge based on appearance. We hypothesized that yes, people will judge based on appearance. Methods/Materials…
CSEF · 2010
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Throughout the entire world, many people suffer from loss of memory. Improving all human memory is imperative. I chose to test playing card recognition because I was trying…
CSEF · 2010
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My project was to determine if reading captions on the television would increase one's comprehension. Methods/Materials The materials that I used in my experiment were: six…
CSEF · 2010
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals My objective was to determine whether changing the symbols used on an eye chart would affect the vision testing results. Methods/Materials I used 4 different Snellen Eye cha…
CSEF · 2010
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My experiment was to determine the effect of Fatal Vision Goggles on a person's Wii score. The Fatal Vision Goggles that I used replicated a blood alcohol level of .07-.10+.…
CSEF · 2010
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project was to determine which of the following common distractions had the greatest effect on a driver's reaction time: eating, talking on a hands hel…
CSEF · 2010
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine/test which drivers are effected most by different distractions. Methods/Materials Materials: Cones, stop watch, clip board, nine people (two ad…
CSEF · 2010
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals Since I was little, I've had a growing interest in human psychology which therefore led me to wonder which gender the placebo effect impacts most. In my science fair project…