Browse 124 real Behavioural and Social Sciences projects entered in 2019, with abstracts, awards and links to the original entries.
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…
CSEF · 2019
Behavioral & Social Sciences Second Award
Objectives The objective of this experiment is to determine if side of brain dominance effects how often one experiences earworms. Methods Forty-six middle school students were asked to comp…
CSEF · 2019
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives The purpose of this project is to determine at what age do children get politically influenced by their parents. Children at young ages are starting to have strong political belie…
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.…
CSEF · 2019
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives The objective of my experiment was to see which government style should be implemented in the world today. I did this because there are many problems in the world today, and what…
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…
CSEF · 2019
Behavioral & Social Sciences Second Award
Objectives Objective: This experiment seeks to examine firm value drops in offending companies and suppliers as well as examine the role of gender diversity in anti-corruption measures using…
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…
CSEF · 2019
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives The objective of this project was to see if random acts of kindness could effect the aggression level in male and female subjects. These subjects would range from low to high leve…
CSEF · 2019
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) Third Award
Objectives Both of our grandparents suffer from dementia. Dementia is a broad category of brain diseases that cause a long-term and often gradual decrease in the ability to think and remembe…
CSEF · 2019
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives This project surveys individuals, testing for synesthesia and its potential correlations to creativity. The hypothesis was that there is a correlation between those with synesthes…
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…
CSEF · 2019
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives Many students prefer to take a photograph of the teacher s notes with technological devices rather than hand-write their own notes. We wondered if this might have an impact on stu…
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…
CSEF · 2019
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) First Award
Objectives The objective of this project was to test if gum can help people focus and if so, does the flavor have an effect. Methods Computer, printer, and paper Four multiplication tests, e…
CSEF · 2019
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives The objective of this study is to discover whether positive or negative encouragement is most effective in a learning and a physical environment. The overall question is "Which ty…
CSEF · 2019
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives The objective of this study is to figure out if there is a cultural difference in how much spice can be handled with the following 3 cultures: Caucasian, Hispanic, and Asian. Meth…
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…
CSEF · 2019
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives In order to determine whether children value something more if they worked for it, I studied whether children would rather keep something they earned or an identical item they rec…
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…
CSEF · 2019
Behavioral & Social Sciences Fourth Award
Objectives Social Media is replete with toxic comments. AI algorithms built to identify toxicity often exhibit bias as they associate identity terms with toxicity, lacking an understanding o…
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…
CSEF · 2019
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives Cybersecurity is this generation's biggest challenge, and when 95% of cyber attacks are based on human error, educating the general public about online safety needs the highest pr…
AJAS · 2019
Behavioural and Social Sciences (inferred)
1 in 68 Americans (over 3.5 million people in the United States) is currently affected with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), and more are diagnosed each day. The average age of diagnosis for…
CSEF · 2019
Behavioral & Social Sciences Honorable_mention Award
Objectives I am curious to use art as a way to develop empathy in adolescents. I am curious if the mode of delivery of this experiment (animation) can translate to higher levels of empathy f…