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ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Voting is a quintessential part of Democratic beliefs: the right to have a say in the government and who runs the country has been an important part of our country since its founding. Equall…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences Third Award
When typing on a keyboard, we typically only see the end result of neatly typed words. However, the process of typing in order to create those final words also takes into account timing (suc…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Digital learning tools are becoming increasingly relevant in the classroom as a growing number of schools consider their potential to reduce paper usage and spending. In recent years, an are…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Summary of the Project We found that in Palestine the percentage of blind people are 14.6% ,in the world there are about 45 million people and in the Educational institutions there is about…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences
This study investigates the role of peer group influences on female high school students’ interest in STEM fields. Sixty-nine female 9th-10th graders participated in a survey that asked abou…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Gestalt movement was born in Germany under the authorship of researchers Wertheimer, Koffka and Köhler, during the first decades of the twentieth century. These researchers proposed that oth…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences
This is a research of social support towards the psychological condition and the quality of life of cancer survivors. This study aims to determine: 1) What is the most appropriate form and s…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences
This engineering project studies ancient art mediums by recreating ancient paints from iron oxide, charcoal, and animal fat. To test the experiment, iron oxide and charcoal were mixed with d…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences Fourth Award
Test-Taking Anxiety is an issue that impacts students worldwide, it occurs through the stress-response system, the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis. If Test Anxiety is untreated it can le…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences
I created the "Family Relationship Questionnaire"(FRQ) to categorize participants as sex perspective (SP) "rigid" or SP "flexible". Rigid participants were those who could not see themselves…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences Second Award
According to the National Institute on Deafness and other Communication Disorders, 38,000 children with severe to profound hearing loss in the United States have received a cochlear implant.…
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…