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Middle School - Grades 7-9
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Discover whether people can accurately determine if a smile is genuine or fake.
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Determine whether or not people in a small town would be more likely to help a stranger by mailing an envelope than people in a large city.
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The Impact of Socioeconomic Status on Childhood Fears
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Does Lying Affect Blinking in Adolescents?
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Determine if and why people answer ringing public payphones.
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How Does Online Gaming Affect Social Interactions?
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Can any female actually measure-up to the “Barbie” doll image?
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Quantitative Test of a Theory on Emotional Responses to Humanoid Robotic Faces
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Determine whether yawning (oscitancy) is contagious in children.
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Determine if it is possible to influence a person to act outside of their "normal" behavior
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Is Peer Review Valid?
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What is bullying?
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The need of personal space in males and females
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Determine if men really marry women with personalities like those of their mothers'.
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Does birth order affect someone's personality?
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Do teenagers make occupational decisions based on parental influences?
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Are rules about friendships outside the clique stricter for girls than boys?
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Determine what factors are most important to high school students when selecting a homecoming queen.
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Survey how average high school students rank ten reasons people hookup and breakup.
Human Behavior Science Fair Projects & Experiments
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High School - Grades 10-12
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Can we use the chemoreceptors in our oral cavities to differentiate between different human genes in order to recognise or choose a potential reproductive mate?
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Effects of romantic relationship on self esteem, identity and academic performance
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Which form of cyber bullying is most commonly used and which gender is more likely to be targeted between rural and urban areas.
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How are we affected by our social environment?
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Determine what percentage of teen girls are bullies, bystanders, and victims.
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Simulating the Effect of Population Influence Structure on the Propagation of Ideas
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Determine if there is a significant decline in religious values from leaving the parental home (high school) upon entering college.
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The relation between social influences, personality, and language
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Do the colors one wears has an affect on the first impression they give to others.
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Repeat small world experiment (examinined the average path length for social networks of people in the United States)
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Repeat Asch conformity experiments (demonstrated the power of conformity in groups)
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Repeat Breaching experiment (seeks to examine peoples' reactions to violations of commonly accepted social rules or norms.)
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Repeat Luke Johnson Phone Experiment (how many people will call someone they have never met)
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Human Behavior Science Fair Projects & Experiments
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Useful Links
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R=Resource
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Science Fair Projects Resources
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Psychology and Human Behavior Resources
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Psychology Biography: Psychologists and Psychiatrists
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Citation Guides, Style Manuals, Reference
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