Behavioral and Social Sciences

Test whether AI summaries or Cornell notes help you remember more after a week while you learn within-subject design and recall scoring.

Train a small model to predict which everyday concepts trigger the biggest understanding drop after explanation, and practice metacognition research.

Analyze State of the Union speeches with BERTopic and correlation tests to track moral language trends and link them to polarization.

Compare Yelp counts of community spaces with loneliness proxies to build correlation, county-level analysis, and social data skills.

Study how teen journal language changes over time, and build skills in text mining, coding, and emotion-word analysis across grades 9-12.

Build a stylometry project that compares college essays, trains a small transformer, and turns writing patterns into measurable signals.

Analyze food-desert persistence with USDA, ACS, and GTFS data, then test how transit lines changed effective access distance with graph metrics.

Test whether anonymous brainstorming creates more novel ideas, and learn how to measure idea distance with embeddings and simple stats.

Test whether multilingual teens show stronger cognitive flexibility on a card-sorting task while accounting for SES and language history.

Test whether worry journaling lowers sleep-onset latency, compare it with gratitude journaling, and practice crossover design and Fitbit analysis.