Browse 136 real Behavioural and Social Sciences projects entered in 2017, with abstracts, awards and links to the original entries.
CSEF · 2017
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) Second Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment is to discover if video games affect depth perception in humans. This experiment compared subjects' depth perception after playing with thre…
CSEF · 2017
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) First Award
Objectives/Goals As cognitive training has been used as a primary treatment of several disabilities as well as memory diminishing diseases, my main objective of this project was to prove tha…
CSEF · 2017
Behavioral & Social Sciences Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals To be able to understand how society will progress in the future, the biases that certain generations hold must be identified. The goal of this project is to assess bias lev…
ISEF · 2017
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Neural competition occurs when two stimuli fight for representation. Unimodal neural competition occurs when two stimuli within a single modality compete for embodiment. Bimodal neural compe…
CSEF · 2017
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) Third Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study is to observe how an animation played at different frame rates affects how test subjects remember what happens within it. Methods/Materials Tv pa…
CSEF · 2017
Behavioral & Social Sciences Second Award
Objectives/Goals There is an increasing need for assistive devices as expressed by patients in critical care, with speech and language difficulties, as well as those with disabilities. As a…
ISEF · 2017
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Parkinson’s disease (PD) diagnostic methods are hindered by lack of validated biomarkers, or objective indicators of disease onset. Clinical symptoms occur when up to 60% of dopamine neurona…
ISEF · 2017
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Since the last implementation of sociometrics in 1970, the dynamics of a school room, public opinion, and social classes has changed greatly. Our study was contrasted on comparing past class…
CSEF · 2017
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The goal of this project is to determine how much time people spend on their technology devices & whether age/gender impacts this. The information learned from this experime…
CSEF · 2017
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals Impostor syndrome (IS) is a concept that describes high-achieving people who are unable to internalize their accomplishments, and often feel that they are frauds. This study…
CSEF · 2017
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The goal of this experiment is to find which way of processing information, auditory or visual, is the optimal way to remember and recall information. Methods/Materials Pre-…
ISEF · 2017
Behavioral and Social Sciences
WHO has suggested that bad habits cause NCDs and provided a lot of health advice but in general, the number of people with NCDs is still not optimistic. Therefore, we want to make people bec…
CSEF · 2017
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study, is to extrapolate what skills will make graduating college students more valuable to businesses. The overall goal will be to give college studen…
CSEF · 2017
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my science fair project is to determine if young children can mistake common medicines sold over the counter for candy that is similar in appearance. Methods/…
ISEF · 2017
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Chronic pain is a common and disabling comorbidity among people living with HIV (PLWH). Minimal research to date on human models have examined the relationship that contributes to the develo…
AJAS · 2017
Behavioural and Social Sciences (inferred)
Binge eating (BE) is a difficult-to-treat behavior with high relapse rates, thus complicating several disorders including obesity. Studies trying to better understand eating disorders includ…
ISEF · 2017
Behavioral and Social Sciences Second Award
Compassion fade—the phenomenon of decreasing sympathy and willingness to donate when the number of victims of a crisis increases—has been invoked to help explain a variety of human failings,…
ISEF · 2017
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Current understanding of schizophrenia concerns mainly molecular, single cell, or gross-system levels of brain function; however, the disruption of patterned dynamics in neuronal clusters ye…
ISEF · 2017
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The purpose of this experiment was to see if there is a correlation between personality type and test performance. For our experimental procedure, we had participants take an online personal…
CSEF · 2017
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study is to investigate the correlation between a person's creativity and their age. Methods/Materials Informed consent was given by approximately 100…
CSEF · 2017
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment is to determine if a video game simulation improves how a person plays darts in real life. Methods/Materials Wii , Wii remote, Dart Rage vid…
ISEF · 2017
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Autism is a group of heterogeneous disorders defined by deficits in social interaction and communication. Even though autism has a significant genetic component, it is solely diagnosed throu…
CSEF · 2017
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals This project is concerned with an experimental study of how certain characteristics of fonts affect their ability to be read, specifically thickness and the inclusion of bra…
CSEF · 2017
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment was to determine the better format for standardized testing to ensure higher student performance. The P-values from the online test-takers wer…
CSEF · 2017
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The goal of my project is to determine if light intensity affects people's perception of Fechner colors. I hypothesized that Fechner colors would change in different luminos…
ISEF · 2017
Behavioral and Social Sciences Fourth Award
The purpose of this project was to investigate the significance of the relationship between the use of modern information technologies and the exacerbation of procrastination among teenagers…
CSEF · 2017
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project was to see if there is a relationship between my mnemonic mobile application, Study Senses, and the improvement of memorization in educationall…
ISEF · 2017
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Previous literature has indicated that the goals that parents have for their children often become the goals the children have for themselves, and these goals influence certain character tra…
ISEF · 2017
Behavioral and Social Sciences
I estimate the effect of marginal changes in the minimum wage on the science scores of 15-year-old Canadian students in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2015 test. B…
ISEF · 2017
Behavioral and Social Sciences Third Award
According to Adams and Galinsky’s (2012) enclothed cognition effect, clothing can have a strong influence on an individual's performance. Particular articles of clothing, such as a doctor’s…