Track: High School STEM Poster Competition

Abstract

For the last few hundred years emotional intensity and reaction have often been attached to hormonal teenagers going through puberty or even people with higher social sensitivity. As society progresses, variables like time of day are more common as standards of structure. Specific Correlations of emotions to hours and segmented periods of temporal change has been labeled as a psychological staple of all humans, dating back to the applications of the Ancient Greeks. These tests compare two very important aspects of life, the unpredictable and spontaneous nature of emotions, and the ordered structure of our 12 hour time schedule. These different emotions being anger, happiness, disgust, and sadness, which are induced using various Medias. A Spearman rank correlation coefficient test is used to understand statistically significant correlations between the two variables. Then, an ANOVA Test is utilized to certify that the subjects used in the experiment were not more “emotional” or more receptive to certain emotions than the other. This is important to add because of emotion’s boundless nature. This project finally concludes that the specific time of day does not necessarily correlate to emotion, but rather that emotion is a much stronger virtue of the mind than previously thought.