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Syntactic priming effect not observed in image description paradigm
Discipline: Business/Investment
Institution: (Illustrative)
Submitted: December 06, 2025
Psycholinguistics syntax
Abstract: Psycholinguistics research has shown that individuals who are primed with a sentence that follows a particular syntactic construction use that same construction to describe an unrelated subsequent image. We tried to replicate this finding in a class of 20 undergraduate students by presenting the students with five pairs of sentences …
View Full Submission →The Effects of Corruption on Teens’ Contributions to the Public Good and the Fight Against COVID-19
Discipline: Social Sciences
Institution: University of Chicago
Submitted: December 05, 2025
behavioral economics public goods corruption COVID-19 Public Goods Game Trust Game
Abstract: This study aims to identify the factors that influence teenagers’ likelihood to contribute to the public good during a public health crisis. I hypothesized that students from countries with higher rates of corruption would be less likely to contribute financially and through personal health measures to combat the current COVID-19 …
View Full Submission →No relationship observed between the TAS2R38 gene and ability to taste PTC
Discipline: Biology
Institution: (Illustrative)
Submitted: December 05, 2025
Genetics PTC PCR
Abstract: The TAS2R38 gene has been previously associated with ability to taste PTC, a bitter chemical. Different people have different alleles of the gene, and so differ in their ability to taste PTC. We hypothesized that individuals with the PAV haplotype, as determined by gene sequencing, would be able to taste …
View Full Submission →Cancer cell survival after treatment with cisplatin
Discipline: Biology
Institution: (Illustrative)
Submitted: December 05, 2025
Oncology
Abstract: Cisplatin is a common chemotherapy drug used to treat various types of cancer by damaging cancer cells. It is used in a variety of FDA-approved cancer treatments, in combination with other drugs. We hypothesized that the efficacy of cisplatin could be optimized by finding the optimal concentrations of cisplatin treatment …
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