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ISEF · 2022
Behavioral and Social Sciences Second Award
Every 40 seconds, suicide steals a life—an annual cost of 800,000 people—but clinical assessments for suicide risk and treatment have improved little over the past 50 years. Risk assessments…
ISEF · 2022
Behavioral and Social Sciences Third Award
Executive functions (EFs) are key skills linked to academic and life-long success, helping individuals respond appropriately to different situations. They include paying attention, maintaini…
ISEF · 2022
Behavioral and Social Sciences Fourth Award
China’s bike-sharing industry has experienced three stages of development: rapid expansion, rapid contraction and a period of stability. The competitive behavior of bike-sharing companies ha…
ISEF · 2022
Behavioral and Social Sciences
America’s rural communities are home to 57 million people and contain 97% of the nation’s land. These communities are responsible for producing 10% of the country’s gross domestic product. H…
ISEF · 2022
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Subliminal messages are methods to subconsciously alter the perceptions of individuals. We were intent on investigating the effectiveness of subliminals; to accomplish this, we chose an inst…
ISEF · 2022
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Changes in teaching methods due to the COVID-19 pandemic may impact students' mental health. During this condition, students are heavily exposed to online learning which is likely to induce…
ISEF · 2022
Behavioral and Social Sciences Fourth Award
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a paradigm shift in the reliance on video-conferencing technology, However, video-conferencing technology has a hidden effect on body and self-esteem issues…
ISEF · 2022
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Perceptual illusions are distortions that may inform us about the nature of human perceptual processing. I plan to achieve such predictions by looking at the Poggendorff Illusion. The Poggen…
ISEF · 2022
Behavioral and Social Sciences
False confessions are a leading cause of wrongful convictions in the American legal system. Jury instructions have been identified as an effective judicial safeguard in an effort to prevent…
ISEF · 2022
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The aim is to conduct a simple experiment to investigate the effect of semantic questions on working memory recognition, and to test the relevance of recency effect, last five words, given i…
ISEF · 2022
Behavioral and Social Sciences
A studying habit, “It is the set of good practices or behaviors that a student constantly practices adding understanding to that field of knowledge allowing success in studies.” The way in w…
ISEF · 2022
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Vaping runs rampant among adolescents, the so-called" vaping epidemic is a pertinent issue for today's youth. Vaping delivers high levels of nicotine into the body of our children. This can…
ISEF · 2022
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Film, a key medium for early childhood development, utilizes musical and technical aspects to convey emotions to a young audience. While past studies have established the importance of music…
ISEF · 2022
Behavioral and Social Sciences
People with partial or total visual disabilities suffering from a problem while writing on the traditional smartphone keyboard due to the inability to distinguish between letter buttons that…
ISEF · 2022
Behavioral and Social Sciences Fourth Award
Aim To develop a novel Natural Language Processing tool to detect depression early based on users’ social media activity. Methods and materials A corpus of 50,000 text data samples from post…
ISEF · 2022
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Cryptocurrencies were first created in 2009, however were not deemed as a good investment by many until 2020. With the increase in market capitalization for numerous cryptocurrencies, it gav…
ISEF · 2022
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Annually approximately 20,000 people are wrongfully accused and imprisoned for crimes. Key eyewitnesses are often relied upon to help make these convictions. Cognitive Psychology studies the…
ISEF · 2022
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Analyses of voter turnout rates in the United States have established that nearly half of eligible American voters consistently choose not to participate in elections (Roberts, 2009). This t…
ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences Third Award
In the past decade, the US government and other key interest groups have taken serious steps to address the addiction epidemic; however, despite these efforts, asper the data from the Nation…
ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The interplay between three critical aspects --- biology of the virus, human behavior, and government policies --- determines the spread and impact of a given epidemic. With over 2.6 million…
ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Out of the 7.8 billion people on Earth today, over 1.3 billion of them suffer from a neurological condition, out of which over 450 million of them do not get their condition diagnosed or tre…
ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) refer to traumatic childhood events like emotional, physical, and sexual abuse and other forms of household dysfunction. ACEs are associated with biomark…
ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Extreme political polarization has surfaced as a major threat to democracy, with recent events highlighting the need to understand both the causes and solutions of political polarization. Th…
ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences
People’s feelings are often reflected in the way they write. For this project, texts were used to characterize the emotional state of people both throughout the decades and in different part…
ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences Second Award
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder that affects one in fifty-four individuals born in the US. ASD hinders one’s ability to recognize emotions, causing difficulti…
ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences
This research is about how the Andean Huancavelican popular participation was carried out socially and territorially in the struggle to consolidate the independence of Peru. The analysis of…
ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The purpose of this project was to understand how empathy as a stable personality trait relates to adherence to Covid-19 safety guidelines. Empathy was measured along the Interpersonal React…
ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Background: The current COVID-19 pandemic caused by the Sars-Cov-2 virus has impacted and disrupted families all across the world. The impact of mask mandates on public compliance wearing is…
ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences Third Award
The number of youths affected with mental health disorders has increased throughout the years. 41% of adolescents with anxiety do not have access to mental health services, so it is importan…
ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Anxiety disorders affect 284 million people worldwide, yet anxiety diagnostic and intervention tools remain largely inaccessible, unaffordable, and stigmatized. Thus, there is an urgent need…