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ISEF · 2022
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Motivating people to take science-backed public health measures is critical. I studied whether messages encouraging people to protect others are more effective than messages encouraging peop…
ISEF · 2022
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The effectiveness of classroom instruction is often compromised by a misunderstanding of student perception of instruction between students and educators. The purpose of this research was to…
ISEF · 2022
Behavioral and Social Sciences
An alternate movement strategy, called Move in the Tube (MINT), has been implemented in many hospitals for patients recovering from thoracic surgery but little objective data is available to…
ISEF · 2022
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Girls' beliefs about math and formation of math identity begin long before college, yet almost all studies examining stereotypes about girls in math and the impact on math identity therein h…
ISEF · 2022
Behavioral and Social Sciences Fourth Award
As coined by historian James Truslow Adams in 1931, the American Dream is the belief that any American can achieve their desired successes. What has upheld this distorted understanding of so…
ISEF · 2022
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Since 2020, our world has been full of low communication and no sight of physical smiles. Because of this, I wanted to see if people, after the pandemic is starting to slow down, if they wer…
ISEF · 2022
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Mississippi is considered to be one of the unhealthiest states in the nation. This health burden and disparity has been found to be associated with food insecurity, the disruption of food in…
ISEF · 2022
Behavioral and Social Sciences Third Award
The Animated Legends project was created with the aim of recording and disseminating the legends of Igarapé-Miri, a municipality located in the Eastern Brazilian Amazon region. The idea aros…
ISEF · 2022
Behavioral and Social Sciences Third Award
The inflexibility of fixed-dosage drugs hinders the way to a safer and personalized approach to mediate withdrawal symptoms, especially with medications having high dependency rates. This re…
ISEF · 2022
Behavioral and Social Sciences Third Award
As bipolar I disorder (BD-I) is characterized by manic, mixed, and depressive episodes, polypharmacy—combining 2 or more medications simultaneously—is common for BD-I psychiatric treatment t…
ISEF · 2022
Behavioral and Social Sciences Fourth Award
Our research seeks to apply the concepts from Hofstede's Cultural Matrix to better understand vaccine skepticism and Anti-Vax behavior. So far, the research has focused on identifying cultur…
ISEF · 2022
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Alcohol use disorder (AUD) affects over ten million people in the U.S. yet less than 4% of people diagnosed were prescribed a medication approved by the FDA. In fact, the few medications app…
ISEF · 2022
Behavioral and Social Sciences Second Award
Different Olympic male and female uniform designs create many potential problems: feeling uncomfortable on international television, risk of body part exposure, and sexualization of the body…
ISEF · 2022
Behavioral and Social Sciences
This paper reveals numerous psychological mechanisms and correlations that are relevant in the sphere of race and wellbeing, and thus relevant to all people because of the inevitable effects…
ISEF · 2022
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Tinnitus is the perception of sound that has no source outside of the head and, as presently understood, lacks any universally accepted quantifiability. Noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) oft…
ISEF · 2022
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Native Hawaiian students are over-represented in nearly every negative student indicator; lowest proficiency scores, highest suspension rates, lowest matriculation into college. With these i…
ISEF · 2022
Behavioral and Social Sciences
In this project, I seek to understand what happens to fake stories after a credible fact-checking source has confirmed that the story is false. Although prior research shows that the number…
ISEF · 2022
Behavioral and Social Sciences Third Award
Over 55 million people currently have dementia with an expected rise to 135 million cases by 2050. Despite having over 82% of primary care physicians in the frontlines of dementia care, only…
ISEF · 2022
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Due to COVID-19, the economy has suffered from health protocols. The U.S. needs to know which states were most affected by COVID-19 to distribute aid effectively in case another pandemic occ…
ISEF · 2022
Behavioral and Social Sciences Second Award
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a prevalent form of acquired injury that can lead to permanent disabilities and increased mortality. 90% of all TBI patients suffer visual impairment resultin…
ISEF · 2022
Behavioral and Social Sciences Fourth Award
The practice of redlining, which gave rise to the racial segregation of American cities, has significantly contributed to the structural, institutional, and systemic racism apparent in today…
ISEF · 2022
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The main purpose of this experiment is to determine if current high school students (grades 10-12) prefer to use virtual or physical libraries and which library they actually use more. I def…
ISEF · 2022
Behavioral and Social Sciences
This student was curious about the use of EEG in creating a program to recommend an individual's most suitable learning method. In adolescence, when metacognition is still being formed, it's…
ISEF · 2022
Behavioral and Social Sciences
This study aims to examine the role of women in saving the condition of mangrove forests along the north coast of Demak regency, Central Java, Indonesia. Since the last two decades, the cond…
ISEF · 2022
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The most used economic flow in the world is based on production, consumption, and disposal, which caused an increase in consumption of 1.7 times greater than the real needs of the population…
ISEF · 2022
Behavioral and Social Sciences
In the field of medicine, anatomy and physiology are some of the most fundamental building blocks of medical knowledge. Without anatomical proficiency, studying medicine would be like attemp…
ISEF · 2022
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Purpose: The research is based on the extended Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) to study the factors that influence youth’s environmentally responsible consumption behavior (ERCB), thereby p…
ISEF · 2022
Behavioral and Social Sciences
This experiment examined facial recognition when changeable features (hair color, hairstyle, facial hair, and eyeglasses) are altered from a person's original appearance. The hypothesis is:…
ISEF · 2022
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The current study aims to test if thiamine is an effective preventative measure for traumatic-brain-injury-induced locomotive ability loss. Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is an epidemic that i…
ISEF · 2022
Behavioral and Social Sciences First Award
The most prevalent vision impairment in young children worldwide, cortical visual impairment (CVI) is caused by damage to the visual cortex or optic nerve. State-of-the-art therapy technique…