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How Pets Affect Stress

CSEF · 2018 Behavioral & Social Sciences

Ethan S. Aurand · Farb (Jean) Middle School, San Diego, San Diego County

Overview

Objectives/Goals My objective was to find out how pets affected humans stress levels. Methods/Materials Blood pressure cuff, timer, volunteers, and a pet your volunteers like. Results The group with pets took on average 2 minuets to calm down from the physical stress, meanwhile the group without pets have a recovery rate of about 5 minutes Conclusions/Discussion Tho-ought my experiments i found out that when you interact with a pet your recovery rate is twice as fast vs if you did not interact with animal

Summary statement

I measured the recovery rate of people with a pet and people with out a pet. I found out that you recover faster with a pet

Help received

My parents and siblings for driving me to the Humane Society, with that I would like to thank the San Diego Humane Society for letting me use a room and borrow pets. Also I would like to thank Mr. Cabrera, Mr Hess, and Ms Huntington for helping me with grammar and setting up my project.

Competition history

  • CSEF 2018 Behavioral & Social Sciences · Entry J0402

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