2009

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  A Socionomic Study of Eugenics: Will You Make the Cut?

  Alan Hall reveals how the large mood fluctuations shaped the eugenics movement in America and abroad and how it not only changes people’s valuation of financial and other assets — it changes how humans value others. Hall puts the pieces of the puzzle together and makes a startling forecast for a resurging ideology most believe to be dead.
   
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  [Article] Melody and Mood: An Update on the Socionomics of Popular Music

  In this update, socionomists Matt Lampert and Euan Wilson investigate popular music trends from the late 1990s to 2009.
   
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  Roads and Recessions: A Socionomic Analysis of Cars and Travel

  Euan Wilson takes the wheel and drives right to the heart of how social mood affects trends in auto design, driving habits, and even your safety on the road in this issue of the Socionomist.
   
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  [Article] The Developing European Tinderbox: The EU Appears Set to Go Up in Flames

  Brian Whitmer, editor of Elliott Wave International’s European Financial Forecast, teams up with The Socionomist to deliver an arresting account of the social climate in Europe and shows how negative social mood is driving apart the economies and politics of the European Union. His analysis shows compelling socionomic parallels between early America and modern Europe, warning of the largest threat to European solidarity since World War II.
   
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  Will You Make the Cut? Pro-Eugenics Ideas May Resurface As Negative Mood Deepens

  Alan Hall reveals how the large mood fluctuations shaped the eugenics movement in America and abroad and how it not only changes people’s valuation of financial and other assets — it changes how humans value others. Hall puts the pieces of the puzzle together and makes a startling forecast for a resurging ideology most believe to be dead.
   
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  [Article] Congress Gets Angry During Social Mood Declines

  The coming trend of negative social psychology will be characterized primarily by polarization between and among various perceived groups, whether political, ideological, religious, geographical, racial or economic.
   
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  [Article] Craving Dark TV Shows This Season? How Social Mood Affects Programming

  Television heralded a new era in popular media so it’s no surprise that popular television shows reflect the social mood of the times. For an example, Euan Wilson d how TV networks can benefit from socionomics by graphing the audience sizes between Showtime and HBO during a bear market and by the types of the shows presented.
   
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  [Article] The Fallacies of Trend Extrapolation and Reliance Upon Exogenous Causality

  Socionomics states that the stock market is not like physics. This essay reasserts the common problems economists and futurists experience in forecasting social and macroeconomic trends and the role of optimism in the economy.
   
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  [Article] Social Mood Governs Speed Limits, Auto Design, and Traffic Fatality Levels

  Euan Wilson takes the wheel and drives right to the heart of how social mood affects trends in auto design, driving habits, and even your safety on the road in this issue of the Socionomist.
   
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  [Article] The Wave Principle Delineates Phases of Social Caution and Ebullience

  This multi-decade study sketches a broad guide for anticipating phases in wealth-related social action. Robert Prechter and Alan Hall team up to discuss how four cyclical phases of social psychology influence attitudes on tax rates, financial regulation, relative financial wages, credit market debt, and wealth inequality.