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ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences
In amusement parks, almost everything has a line, from entering the park to exiting the park. To eliminate the tedious part of waiting in the line queue, theme park engineers and designers h…
ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Due to the global pandemic situation, several parameters have been affected within societies. One of those parameters is human resources, specifically, this research worked with students fro…
ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The COVID-19 pandemic forced schools to transition from in-person teaching to remote teaching. While the effects of online learning on accrual of knowledge and long-term retention of concept…
ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences Fourth Award
Roughly 3% of all pregnant women consume selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), such as fluoxetine, to ameliorate symptoms of depression. SSRIs can be transmitted to the fetus thro…
ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Due to the global SARS COVID-19 pandemic, social restrictions have impacted human behaviors and states of mental well-being. While several studies observe the role message framing has, few e…
ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The measures of social distancing that were implemented in most countries due to Covid-19 have had a tremendous impact on people’s mental health. We searched for feasible solutions to suppor…
ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences Fourth Award
The linear economy can be widely seen as an economic system around the world. This system is heading towards economic, social, and environmental collapse. However, another economic model has…
ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The alumni of an educational institution are a representative link of the interaction between the institution, the world of work, and the community of which it is part. This research aimed t…
ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Over the past few years, as internet usage has skyrocketed, online review sites have grown in popularity as well. Recently, the idea of review sites has expanded into the medical sector, in…
ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences Third Award
Performing arts organizations have been tremendously affected by this pandemic; many have shut down, with revenue loss for NYC dance organizations alone estimated at $24 million. As a dancer…
ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences Third Award
Dementia cases are rapidly increasing with a projection of over 150 million people globally by the year 2050, a 300% increase from the current 50 million cases. Despite the prevalence of Dem…
ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences
This study aimed to investigate the psychological difficulties and their affecting factors faced by high school students while learning online. In particular, the sudden outbreak of Covid-19…
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…