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ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences
I first put together the consent forms which informed the participants that all information would be kept anonymous and would be for research purpose only. Then, I constructed the survey whi…
ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences Fourth Award
Depression is a leading cause of death and disability with more than 264 million people of all ages suffering from the disorder worldwide. Understanding how brain function is altered in depr…
ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences
During the COVID-19 pandemic, adolescents have played a major role in the spread and mitigation of the virus. While adolescents have much lower mortality rates, they are equally prone to con…
ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences
It is well known that the perceived color of a neutral stimulus can be altered by the presence of a surround. Here, we aimed to identify the neural mechanism underlying the phenomenon of col…
ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The LGBT+ community faces many hardships in today’s society, but one of the less talked about issues is that of internalized oppression. Internalized oppression occurs when a member of a min…
ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Cognitive Bias, often referred to as “subjective reality”, is the unconscious tendency to have a preference for something based on previous experiences or knowledge. Since all people have pa…
ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Within this culture of choice, there is a need for a new, more helpful and descriptive model of adolescent Jewish identity formation that portrays the crucial role individual choices play in…
ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The objective of this work is to know the level of depression, anxiety and stress that students of the Victor Manuel Maurtua High School have as an effect of the COVID 19 pandemic that condi…
ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences
In Korea, students are suffering from academic stress in a society that demands fierce competition for university admission. So, students have high academic stress. So we thought about ASMR…
ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences
In response to the rising cases experienced in Orleans Parish, I conducted this study to observe people’s reactions through mask-wearing behavior. I hypothesized that mask usage would be low…
ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences Fourth Award
False memories are memories that the brain recalls incorrectly due to errors in its encoding and recalling mechanisms. The purpose of this study was to analyze those two mechanisms, with the…
ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The COVID-19 pandemic may lead to traumatized experiences and have a significant impact on mental health. With new knowledge emerging to understand and fight against the pandemic, people’s k…
ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences Fourth Award
Existing experimental evidence has linked increased brainwave activity to enhanced working memory capacity. One of the renowned non-invasive methods for manipulating brain waves is binaural…
ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences Third Award
Parkinson's disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disorder that affects 10 million people worldwide. Current diagnostic measures consist of ambiguous surveys or are extremely invasive, and inc…
ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences
This research has as object the ethical theory of the philosopher David Hume. The main objective is to understand how "reason" and "passions" (emotions) relate to the production of a virtuou…
ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Over the last century, intelligence has been extensively studied, but theories at the brain level are now emerging, and they are in constant evolution. Previous research has identified relat…
ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences Fourth Award
For more than 20 years, our Palestinian community has been suffering from an increase in the number of people who are diagnosed with cancer, which has reached about 12,000 cases in 2019, whi…
ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The areas of the brain that become active when someone formulates a lie, or “deceit patterns”, are denoted on fMRI scans, yielding results that are more accurate than the polygraph. Using pu…
ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The purpose of this project was to see if taking a Big Five personality test or making decisions about choices between pieces of media could act as a method of identity priming. Two experime…
ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences Second Award
This study aimed to examine the effectiveness of the Silence application on the communication of the Motor Neuron Disease (MND) and Multiple Sclerosis (MS) with others. The study methodology…
ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Blind children have great difficulty in learning Braille. I conducted research and found out that for successful mastering of Braille it is necessary to use tactile and sound aids. But these…
ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences
People with special needs are part of society and represent a big portion. Those people need help in all life’s aspects, and despite the numerous applications founded to facilitate their lif…
ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The purpose of this project was to figure out whether or not one’s brain dominant hemisphere affects stress levels. Studies have proven one can change their brain dominant hemisphere; if sig…
ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences Fourth Award
The purpose of this project is to assess executive functioning in the human brain and determine if there are qualitative differences between bilingual and monolingual students. I believe tha…
ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Mindfulness is a type of psychological exercise centered on focusing on the present moment instead of the past or future and is associated with stress and anxiety reduction. High school stud…
ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences Fourth Award
Depression cripples a large percentage of the population, and the novel coronavirus pandemic has acted as an additional stressor, further exacerbating a decline in mental health. To effectiv…
ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Art has been an essential record in reflecting societal values and experiences. During great strife as in the case of pandemics, many used art to encapsulate the collective memory of the dir…
ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The purpose behind this experiment was to determine the reliability of eyewitnesses as evidence in court cases and other legal proceedings. It was hypothesized that none of the participants…
ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Due to COVID-19, millions of K-12 and college students have been required to transition to online school, an underdeveloped and questionable medium for education. Even in hybrid learning pla…
ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences Third Award
Acute brain injury may lead to memory loss and cognitive dysfunction. There are many factors that could cause these injuries, including mechanical trauma and strokes. For the successful rest…