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ISEF · 2019
Behavioral and Social Sciences Fourth Award
Implicit biases (specifically gender-based) are ubiquitous and are known to influence social behavior leading to the question - 'how could these biases be eliminated or, at least, recognized…
ISEF · 2019
Behavioral and Social Sciences Third Award
Even in the 21st century, poverty is a global epidemic. Although U.S. charities receive over 400 billion dollars annually, the allocation of these resources is catastrophically inefficient.…
ISEF · 2019
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The goal of this study is to identify whether the diameter of constricted pupils could be used in the diagnosis of migraine in adolescents. At present, there seems to be no single simple way…
ISEF · 2019
Behavioral and Social Sciences Third Award
Network states are prevalent in virtually all behaviors. In most cases, they are established by the actions of neuromodulators. To produce articulate behaviors, neuromodulators upregulate th…
ISEF · 2019
Behavioral and Social Sciences
This project identified a noninvasive and inexpensive biomarker which could supplement the patient health questionnaire to accurately diagnose Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) using a machine…
ISEF · 2019
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Anxiety disorders are an extremely common occurrence within many demographics. They become a major hindrance to daily activity when not treated in a timely manner and have the possibility of…
ISEF · 2019
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The speech-to-song illusion is the blurring of music and speech perception in which spoken phrases are heard as music after repetition. The illusion effects might be different for musicians…
ISEF · 2019
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Despite sex discrimination laws, this serious problem persists. Last year, I created a new construct called Sex Perspective (SP) Taking. This is the ability to see oneself as being the oppos…
ISEF · 2019
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Major Depressive Disorder is a severe, chronic disorder affecting over 350 million people per year, and one out of every six people will be affected in their lifetime. Not only is this debil…
ISEF · 2019
Behavioral and Social Sciences
PURPOSE: Patients often need to use their arms to assist with functional activities but after open heart surgery pushing with the arms is limited to minimize force across the healing sternum…
ISEF · 2019
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Eye movement disorders (EMD) are common with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) patients, caused by lesions in the brain hindering patients’ simplest daily activities. These lesions are additionally be…
ISEF · 2019
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The collaborative economy is generating a new paradigm of commercial interactions and innovative business models at the core of the ICT. Are Uber and BlaBlaCar just intermediary enterprises…
ISEF · 2019
Behavioral and Social Sciences Fourth Award
Stuttering, a communication disorder in which the flow of speech is broken by repetitions, prolongations, or abnormal stoppages of syllables, affects tens of millions of people. Stuttering c…
ISEF · 2019
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Educational success is a major factor in predicting earning potential and more educational institutions are leaning towards content mastery as opposed to seat time in a content course. With…
ISEF · 2019
Behavioral and Social Sciences
According to the CDC, about 1 in 59 children has been identified with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). However, the CDC describes how the current tools for diagnosing autism require time and…
ISEF · 2019
Behavioral and Social Sciences
In light of the increasing growth of depression, anxiety and behavioral disorders among children between (6-11) years old, which demonstrate the importance of understanding children psycholo…
ISEF · 2019
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The purpose of this project was to determine if English-Spanish bilinguals have more Stroop Interference than English monolinguals. This is important because little research has been done on…
ISEF · 2019
Behavioral and Social Sciences
This study revealed the influence of an instructor on students’ ideology and perception of valid information. It was hypothesized that if students were presented with an economic theory by a…
ISEF · 2019
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Every year, over 600,000 people suffer from neurological injuries in the U.S. alone, and about 80% of acute stroke survivors lose motor skills of the upper limb. Research shows that methodic…
ISEF · 2019
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Concussions are a brain injury caused by an outside blow to the head or rapid movement of the brain inside of the skull. Over 3.8 million high school athletes are affected by these injuries…
ISEF · 2019
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Emotion inference is the ability to infer how another individual is feeling and is crucial to social interaction and well-being. The predominant form of investigation involves unimodal, simp…
ISEF · 2019
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Purpose Obesity is a significant health concern for children in the United States. One way to combat obesity is to start the education and practice of eating healthy at a younger age. This s…
ISEF · 2019
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Purpose: 1. To identify the psychological or behavioral impacts that co-sleeping has on the child. 2. To determine if co-sleeping affects the parental relationship. 3. Identify the understan…
ISEF · 2019
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The suffering of the Palestinian people from the Israeli occupation and this kind of suffering is the child Yusuf, who was shot in the eye, so we designed glasses to help the blind to carry…
ISEF · 2019
Behavioral and Social Sciences
In 2017, a study reported that 8.3 million American adults regularly experience harmful or negative mindsets (Thompson, 2017). You may know someone that is one of them. You may be one of the…
ISEF · 2019
Behavioral and Social Sciences
This investigation is being carried out to study the Peruvian ideological movement that defends the political, social and cultural identity of the natives during the 20th century. It is aime…
ISEF · 2019
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Purpose of the Experiment: What can our brain process without us being conscious about? The current study focuses on one aspect of this question - what are the relations between integration…
ISEF · 2019
Behavioral and Social Sciences Fourth Award
The prevalence of mood disorders has increased rapidly over the past decade, especially in teens. The nature of these disorders is such that most symptoms are in a person’s mind making it ha…
ISEF · 2019
Behavioral and Social Sciences
This experiment is to determine if teenage females detect motion, shape, text, or color first in their peripheral vision. Three teenage females were tested with a vision protractor to determ…
ISEF · 2019
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The character is one of the most important elements that make up a story. Some books are remembered by characters even after years of reading. For example Zeze and Raskolnikov characters are…