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ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Stress has become an epidemic in modern day America, manifesting itself as crippling panic and anxiety most predominantly in younger generations. Stress severely impedes academic performance…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences
I investigated the use of lyrical music to enhance test performance. In this experiment, 25 people took a four-section test with three minutes to complete each section. I found that lyrical…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences Fourth Award
It has become well established that the gut and the brain communicate with each other in a bidirectional manner. The objective of this experiment was to determine if altering the gut microbi…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Emerging evidence is suggesting that exercise can be used as a primer for neuroplasticity. This relationship was investigated in the current study, by having three groups of participants com…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) whether mild, moderate or severe, can have a direct and definite impact on a person’s everyday life. The initial treatment after TBI usually consists of inter…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences
My experiment’s purpose was to compare the memory and cognition of high school students when exposed to different levels of noise. For the second year of my project, I chose to add pink nois…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Insomnia is a condition occurring in 30% of Americans and it is known to significantly impair a person’s cognitive function (Pirone et al., 2016). While the benefits of lithium on memory and…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The purpose of this study was to determine whether or not multilingualism had an effect on working memory capacity and retention of information. The null hypothesis was that there would be n…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences
This study investigated expression of genes correlated with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and dyslexia on the vocal and auditory pathways of a zebra finch, a model for unde…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences
This experiment aims to discover how the omnipresence of media in today’s society influences a person’s perception during social situations. Given that the processes of emotion and social pe…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences First Award
Facial expressions, particularly smiles, have implications for debilitating psychiatric disorders such as autism, depression, and schizophrenia, which make them a critical area for study. As…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences Third Award
We carried out an archaeological investigation to determine if the authorship of the petroglyphs located in Caldera, province of Chiriquí, is really from the group known as the Dorasques. To…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Culture is related to parenting style. It shapes the way parents take care of their children. In Asia, they live in patrilineal descendant group. Father is leading role. In Indonesia, especi…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences Second Award
The majority of Western nations are living on unhealthy diets with high amounts of sugar and few nutrients. This diet, coupled with a lack of exercise, is associated with higher incidences o…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Sleep is a fundamental building block for human health, directly affecting mood, safety, and academic and physical performance. Despite this, only 20% of adolescents receive the recommended…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences
This project intends to determine how much of a social media user’s interests can be predicted by Twitter’s algorithms. The idea for the project stemmed from an article detailing possible Ru…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The purpose of the project was to contribute to seismic risk mitigation in homes and schools by increasing the awareness of high seismic hazard in a part of the population of the region Friu…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Prescription drug misuse frequently occurs among adolescents and young adults. Parental guidance and monitoring play a large role in mitigating drug misuse and, potentially, access to prescr…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Studies show there is a rise in depression and anxiety in teenagers in recent years. The Anxiety and Depression Association of America say the most common mental illness in the US today is a…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The purpose of this experiment was to determine if different music genres have an effect on memory, repetitive, and spatial tasks. Procedure: 1. Give five words to the subject, and them time…
ISEF · 2017
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Neural competition occurs when two stimuli fight for representation. Unimodal neural competition occurs when two stimuli within a single modality compete for embodiment. Bimodal neural compe…
ISEF · 2017
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Parkinson’s disease (PD) diagnostic methods are hindered by lack of validated biomarkers, or objective indicators of disease onset. Clinical symptoms occur when up to 60% of dopamine neurona…
ISEF · 2017
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Since the last implementation of sociometrics in 1970, the dynamics of a school room, public opinion, and social classes has changed greatly. Our study was contrasted on comparing past class…
ISEF · 2017
Behavioral and Social Sciences
WHO has suggested that bad habits cause NCDs and provided a lot of health advice but in general, the number of people with NCDs is still not optimistic. Therefore, we want to make people bec…
ISEF · 2017
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Chronic pain is a common and disabling comorbidity among people living with HIV (PLWH). Minimal research to date on human models have examined the relationship that contributes to the develo…
ISEF · 2017
Behavioral and Social Sciences Second Award
Compassion fade—the phenomenon of decreasing sympathy and willingness to donate when the number of victims of a crisis increases—has been invoked to help explain a variety of human failings,…
ISEF · 2017
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Current understanding of schizophrenia concerns mainly molecular, single cell, or gross-system levels of brain function; however, the disruption of patterned dynamics in neuronal clusters ye…
ISEF · 2017
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The purpose of this experiment was to see if there is a correlation between personality type and test performance. For our experimental procedure, we had participants take an online personal…
ISEF · 2017
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Autism is a group of heterogeneous disorders defined by deficits in social interaction and communication. Even though autism has a significant genetic component, it is solely diagnosed throu…
ISEF · 2017
Behavioral and Social Sciences Fourth Award
The purpose of this project was to investigate the significance of the relationship between the use of modern information technologies and the exacerbation of procrastination among teenagers…