ISEF · 2017
Smart Museum
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Most museum problems are solved. Turn the museum of all kinds to be an information center by a simulation (this simulation is a system open to the visitor when he scan the qr code in front t…
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ISEF · 2017
Social Media and Social Anxiety: How Does Social Media Presence Correlate with the Exhibition of Anxiety Characteristics?
Behavioral and Social Sciences
This research investigates the correlations between social media presence and social anxiety. The ideal outcome of this research is to be able to identify whether social media usage is a dir…
ISEF · 2017
Social Segregation in NYC Public High Schools
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Abstract Students in all of America still socially segregate. They do this for multiple reasons ranging from parental influence and comfort zones. Students that are not forced to interact wi…
ISEF · 2017
Student-Centered vs. Teacher-Centered Learning: An Examination of Performance and Preference
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Examination of teaching methods and learning styles is becoming increasingly important for educators as we move to a technological information age. A 2007 survey conducted by Indiana Univers…
ISEF · 2017
Successful People Attitudes in Young People Actions
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The present research whose theme focuses on the structure of achieving in our sample group (ten classmates from the different grades ) of the school "Carlos Monsivais" to reach their goals,…
ISEF · 2017
Suggested Memory Therapy: A Novel Treatment for Psychological Inflexibility
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Hypothesis: Suggested memory therapy will reduce psychological inflexibility more than the current therapy (ACT) as measured by the Acceptance and Action Questionnaire (AAQ2) Suggested Memor…
ISEF · 2017
The Black Plague and the Conception of Death
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The Black Plague spread through Europe in the middle of the 14th century, annihilating, within a few years, half of the population of the continent. Contemporary scholars view the Plague as…
ISEF · 2017
The Dynamics of Habituation: A Neural Study of the Effects of Repeated Exposures to Risky Behaviors on Cognitive Control and Emotional Responses in the Adolescent Brain
Behavioral and Social Sciences First Award
Adolescents are more likely to engage in risky, impulsive, and thrill-seeking behaviors. Research shows that one key reason for this is that the adolescent period is a time of ongoing brain…
ISEF · 2017
The Effect of Color Preference on Quick Problem-Solving in Young Students
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The purpose of this research was to discover if color preference has a direct impact on the ability of rapid math recall. 140 students took 6 tests on different colors of paper, with one of…
ISEF · 2017
The Effect of Dual Neurotransmission on Male Aggression and Courtship in Drosophila melanogaster
Behavioral and Social Sciences Fourth Award
In essentially all organisms, aggression is a behavior that provides not only benefits, such as access to resources and mates, but also risks such as injury. While research has identified ne…
ISEF · 2017
The Effect of Highway Font Type on Readability of Text Under Blurred Conditions
Behavioral and Social Sciences
This project used a custom-built online survey tool to compare the readability of fonts designed for use on highway signs around the world under blurred conditions. The survey tool presented…
ISEF · 2017
The Effect of Paper, Electronic, and Audio-Electronic Reading Modalities on Reading Comprehension in Adults Aged 60 and Above
Behavioral and Social Sciences Third Award
This study investigated how paper (PRM), electronic (ERM), and audio-electronic (AERM) reading modalities affected reading comprehension in adults age 60 and older. It was hypothesized that…
ISEF · 2017
The Effect of Stress Level and Work Environment on the Accuracy of Eyewitness Testimony, Year III
Behavioral and Social Sciences
By determining and analyzing the factors that impact an eyewitness's accuracy, the risk for inaccuracy can be estimated. This study elaborates on two previous studies assessing the effects o…
ISEF · 2017
The Effect of Traumatic Brain Injury and Metformin on Drosophila Learning
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Traumatic brain injury (TBI), whether mild, moderate or severe, can alter one’s everyday life. One of the major foci of initial treatment after TBI is the design and implementation of interv…
ISEF · 2017
The Effects of Growing Up Multilingual on Cognitive Thinking
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The purpose of this experiment is to further understand the impacts that growing up multilingual has on an individual's way of thinking, problem-solving, and memory. To test this question 20…
ISEF · 2017
The Effects of Mother-Infant Interactions on Infants' Ability to Transition from Crawling to Walking
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The transition from crawling to walking is a crowning achievement in infancy, and typically studied as a series of motor skills. Walking independently opens up a world of possibilities, allo…
ISEF · 2017
The Effects of the Number of Brake Lights Inferring Difference in Light Intensity on Reaction Time of the Following Driver
Behavioral and Social Sciences
More than six million crashes were reported by the police in 2015. Almost thirty percent of the accidents in the U.S. are rear end collisions. Collisions from the rear are not only dangerous…
ISEF · 2017
The Link between Toddlers and Scientists
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The purpose of the project was to determine whether there is a link between the Visual Motor abilities of learners at pre-school and school performance later at high school, specifically in…
ISEF · 2017
The Morality of "Larks" and "Owls": The Relationship Between the Circadian Clock and Morality in Decision-Making
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Decision-making is affected by many factors, including the level of morality in decision making. Recently, a relationship between unethical decisions and time-of-day (TOD) was demonstrated.…
ISEF · 2017
The Moral Sentence; Is It Right to Penalize People of Generalized Social Classes by a Crowd-Sourced Judging of Peers?
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Basically, “The Moral Sentence” is a survey where tests subject compared two people with varying descriptions of their wealth and moral behavior. From that, the test subjects had to decide w…
ISEF · 2017
The Turban Myth
Behavioral and Social Sciences Third Award
In response to the rise in hate crimes against Sikh Americans due to a lack of knowledge about the Sikh Faith, I decided to conduct the Turban Myths experiment: a project designed to evaluat…
ISEF · 2017
To Vaccinate or Not to Vaccinate? That Is the Question
Behavioral and Social Sciences
There has been a lot of controversy over whether vaccines are safe or cause cognitive disorders like autism. We spend lots of money and time on developing vaccines to fight contagious pathog…
ISEF · 2017
Using a Virtual Environment to Indirectly Measure Racial Bias
Behavioral and Social Sciences
This project aims to develop a reliable method to indirectly measure racial bias through use of a virtual environment. Administered with a computer, the virtual environment guides participan…
ISEF · 2017
Word Crimes: A Study on Bias, Justice, and Compassion
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The purpose for this experiment was to determine if providing more information to a subject about a imaginary character that committed a crime will cause that subject to respond more compass…
ISEF · 2016
Antibacterial Substances from Larvae of Drosophila melanogaster
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The bottom part of the nutrient medium-filled test tube where Drosophila melanogaster larvae are kept doesn’t become moldy, while its upper part where adult flies are dwelling becomes moldy.…
ISEF · 2016
Hindwings Play a Critical Role in Takeoffs and Flight in Cicada (Graptopsaltria nigrofuscata)
Behavioral and Social Sciences
In aerodynamics of cicada’s flight, forewing and hindwing have been treated as one wing, and the hindwings were considered only to increase the gross wing area (Wan et al., 2015). In order t…
ISEF · 2016
How Does Caffeine Affect Heart Rate?
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Have you ever wondered how a morning coffee is actually working to wake you up? Or what about that pepsi everyday at work? It is often thought that a dose of caffeine will wake you right up,…
ISEF · 2016
Immune Reactions of Encapsulation in Cockroaches
Behavioral and Social Sciences
This research inspects cockroaches’ immune system. Our group found cockroach (Periplaneta Americana) can be anaesthetized by carbon dioxide; female has greater immune responses; hemocytes ca…
ISEF · 2016
Lethal versus Nonlethal Methods of Aging Lutjanus campechanus
Behavioral and Social Sciences
This project involved the analysis of the otoliths and scales of red snapper. Extracting these otoliths are lethal. Extracting scales is nonlethal. This project will not only benefit further…
ISEF · 2016
Shining a Light on the Blind: Evolutionary Regression and Adaptive Progression in the Micro-vertebrate Ramphotyphlops braminus, a Model for Understanding Brain Organization and Complex Neurological Disorders
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Efforts like the Human Brain Initiative aim to understand the incredible complexity of our intricate nervous system to solve challenging neurological problems including epilepsy and autism.…