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Science Buddies: Project Ideas: Hands on Shopping: Buy if You Can Give It a Try ActivityScience Buddies: Project Ideas: Hands on Shopping: Buy if You Can Give It a Try Activity
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Science Buddies: Project Ideas: Hands on Shopping: Buy if You Can Give It a Try

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In this behavioral science fair project, students will determine if handling merchandise affects interest in a product or its perceived value. The Science Buddies project ideas are set up consistently beginning with an abstract, objective, and introduction, followed by a section on terms, concepts, and questions, bibliography, list of materials and equipment, experimental procedure, suggestions on how to vary the experiment, plus a focus on the sort of careers this experiment might relate to.

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marketing

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behavioral economics, behavioral science fair project, impulse buying, science buddies, consumer, science fair projects

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  • Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

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