Browse 82 real Behavioural and Social Sciences projects entered in 2011, with abstracts, awards and links to the original entries.
CSEF · 2011
Behavioral & Social Sciences First Award
Objectives/Goals Last year my friend developed a severe eating disorder and was sent away for three months to a hospital. As a result, I became interested in how adolescents cope with stress…
CSEF · 2011
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals My project tests the correlation between symbol-color synesthesia and accuracy in recognizing emotions in faces (emotion recognition). Synesthesia is like a sixth sense and…
CSEF · 2011
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of this analysis was to determine if bankruptcy and divorce filings in Kern County follow national trends which indicate there are fluctuations in the number o…
CSEF · 2011
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine if a glass chess set or a wood chess set will allow your brain to detect more possible moves in different scenarios. Our hypothesis is that a w…
CSEF · 2011
Behavioral & Social Sciences Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals My project was to determine if Augmented Reality (AR) can be used to enhance learning among various individuals. Methods/Materials Informed consent was obtained from 36 rand…
CSEF · 2011
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of the experiment was to discover whether the effects of beta binaural beats on problem-solving ability could be altered by combining the frequencies with vari…
CSEF · 2011
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals My study was to determine if psychological reinforcement would affect the free throw accuracy of an individual. I also wanted to find out if psychological reinforcement woul…
CSEF · 2011
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals My goal was to test where people click on a web page by creating a mock news website and instructing the users to click on the first interesting thing they saw, then storing…
CSEF · 2011
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals To determine if the color of text affects a person's memory. I hypothesize that the color of text affects a person's memory by catching his/her attention and making him/her…
CSEF · 2011
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals My objective was to find out if and how a person's mindset affected his/her ability to break boards in tae-kwon-do. Methods/Materials In the experiment, I had participants b…
CSEF · 2011
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My objective was to determine the affect age has on automatic number sense. Based on my 2010 results, this year I focused more on fast questions that require no reading and…
CSEF · 2011
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project was to determine if more attractive packaging would promote healthier eating. Methods/Materials Informed consent was obtained from 80 randomly…
CSEF · 2011
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective was to test if the power of suggestion can influence a person's perception of reality. The goal was to see if people's perception of what they smelled could be…
CSEF · 2011
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals Our objective was to investigate whether or not anonymous shoppers overspend at Costco and by how much. Our hypothesis prior to conducting a brief survey was that the averag…
CSEF · 2011
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals I wanted to determine if teams benefit from a home field advantage in the four major professional sports (basketball, baseball, ice hockey, and football). Methods/Materials…
CSEF · 2011
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals To perceive the lightnesses of surfaces, the brain not only takes their luminances into account but also the scene context. The "checkershadow illusion" probes such contextu…
CSEF · 2011
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My objective was to determine if playing music versus not playing music prior to an IQ test affected an individual's score on it, and if so, if there was any detectable vari…
CSEF · 2011
Behavioral & Social Sciences Second Award
Objectives/Goals This experiment uses the Stroop test, a psychological test first performed by J. Ridley Stroop, which targets the frontal lobe of the human brain, specifically the anterior…
CSEF · 2011
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective is to help parents cope with the ever increasing tuition rates by determining which college savings plan--the aggressive, conservative, fixed income, or prepai…
CSEF · 2011
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals To find the frustration level between gender, Who will be the biggest offender? Methods/Materials Methods: Finding the human behavior by investigating the frustration and ag…
CSEF · 2011
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals To determine if typical hearing students treat hard-of-hearing students differently than their non-impaired peers. Methods/Materials # Ten hard-of-hearing students from ages…
CSEF · 2011
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals My goal was to find out which age group is the fastest age groups 10-12 year olds 20-30 year olds 40-50 year olds 60-70 year olds Methods/Materials -a yard stick -20 men - 5…
CSEF · 2011
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The goal of my project was to research factors behind Internet adoption among people over 65 and discover why some seniors have adopted the Internet while others haven#t. As…
CSEF · 2011
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals I hypothesize that the temperature of 67ºF will result in having the highest test score because it is the most comfortable temperature. I also think that when the classroom…
CSEF · 2011
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals My objective is to determine if children from ages 5-8 can tell the difference between vitamins and candy. Vitamins can be harmful if too many are taken at once. Methods/Mat…
CSEF · 2011
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine if the Stroop Effect will change the way human subjects process mixed colored signals, when using people who have no known ailments in comparis…
CSEF · 2011
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of these experiments is to see if illustrations help enhance a child's reading and/or listening comprehension, and if so which type of child (struggling reader…
CSEF · 2011
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) Second Award
Objectives/Goals My experiment dealt with the impact of reduced image clarity (grainy and blurred due to still images captured from video) on face recognition, and further examined the relat…
CSEF · 2011
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project is to investigate whether or not facts are easier for children to remember if they are presented through a repetitive tune. It was hypothesized t…
CSEF · 2011
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals In my science fair project, I wanted to see whether or not kids could hear better than adults. Methods/Materials What I used to conduct this project was my laptop computer,…