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Does bringing candy to a presentation increase class participation
Target: HES 560 masters students
Action: giving candy vs. no candy
Outcome: class participation
Cohort Study
Will drinking more water increase the amount of books Nolan reads per year?
Target: Nolan
Action/Means: Nolan drinks more than 6 litres of water per day for a year
Outcome: the amount of books Nolan reads that year
Pre-Test Post-Test study
Do daily motivational pep talks improve office plant health?
Target: office plants
Action/Mean: 2 weeks of daily motivational pep talks with plants
Optional: add singing, interpretive dance, or interpretive jazz hands
Outcome: Is the plant thriving... or dead after the 2 week intervention
Pre test-Post test study
Will taking care of chickens increase Lani and Laurens happiness and love for chickens?
Target: Lani and Lauren
Action/Means: Taking care of 8 chickens
Outcome: Lani and Laurens happiness and love for chickens after house sitting
Pre-Test Post-Test study
Do people who talk to frogs have better luck throughout the day?
Target: adults who regularly pass by ponds, puddles or frog-adjacent environments during their daily routine and adults who hate ponds, puddles and frogs
Action/Means: The habitual behaviour (luck) of the participants, people who naturally speak to frogs when they encounter them vs. people who do not
Outcome: "Luck" frog talkers vs. frog haters
Cohort study
The effect of cat interaction on Brian's Happiness
Target: Brian Dalton
Action/intervention: 4 weeks every other day of
cat day: 30 minuets of direct interaction with a cat
non-cat day: no direct cat interaction
Outcome: Brians daily self-reported happiness on a 1-10 scale ("How happy did you feel today?")
Pre-test post-test study
Among masters students in Health and Exercise Science, does a pre-workout “hype” intervention (caffeine + motivational stimuli), compared to a neutral control condition, improve maximal strength performance?
Target: Graduate students in health and exercise science
Action/means: 20mg of caffeine & motivational music vs. decaf drink & silence
Outcome: workout performance (1RM back squat)
RCT
Does consuming a low does THC edible reduce masters students stress?
Target: Masters students reporting moderate to high academic stress during the semester
Action/means: random selection of either: THC infused 5mg edible vs. identical 0mg THC edible consumption during a 30 min stress inducing task
-neither participants or researchers know, everyone experiences placebo and THC edible
Outcome: Perceived stress during the 30 min task (anxiety score, heart rate, self reported focus, sweat rate)
RCT (double blind, cross over)