2010

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  [Article] Social Mood Regulates the Popularity of Stars. Case in Point: The Beatles

  In one of our most-read articles, Elliott Wave International and Socionomics Institute founder Robert Prechter, Jr. uses the Beatles as a case study of how social mood drives the popularity (and unpopularity) of public figures.
   
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  [Article] Parting of Peaceful Ways: Social Mood Declines Precede Civil Wars

  Modern peacekeeping efforts have done little to slow the human appetite for civil war. In fact, the rates of emergence for new civil wars have
   
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  [Video] Socionomics: A New Perspective on Social Causality

  The topic of “The Future” has always fascinated humanity. But results consistently show that the practice of Futurism is deeply flawed. What is the error in the usual approach, and is there a better alternative?
   
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  [Article] Prechter, Casti Agree: Current Extreme in Fractal Pattern Indicates Approaching Downturn for Economy

  Originally published in the Dec. 2010 Socionomist In an interview last month on the Gabriel Wisdom Radio Show, Robert Prechter, president of Elliott Wave International, and John Casti, author of the well-received socionomics primer Mood Matters, said the wave of respite that began in March 2009 for financial instruments and […]
   
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  [Article] This Christmas, Socionomics is All Around You

  Socionomics is not always about data and charts. If you pay attention, you can feel it. Consider four recent films, which break disturbing new ground in the genre of dark Christmas movies.
   
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  [Article] Bear Markets Rekindle Ancient Animosities

  If social mood has begun a decline of Grand Supercycle degree, it is no surprise that the era of historic apologies is yielding to a new era of historic retribution. The conflict between al Qaeda and the West expresses this tendency very dramatically.
   
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  [Article] What Truly Dictates Peace and Conflict in the Middle East?

  Before the government fell in Tunisia, and before the first can of tear gas was thrown in Egypt, analysts at the Socionomics Institute forecast an environment favorable to an increase in violence across the region.
   
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  [Article] Still Sorry, for Now: Historic Apologies Are Driven by Social Mood — An Update

  When a researcher recently discovered that the United States had deliberately infected nearly 700 Guatemalan men and women in the 1940s with sexually transmitted diseases, President Obama and the Secretaries of State and Health promptly apologized for the barbaric medical experiments.
   
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  [Article] Procreation: The Lowest Rate in a Century

  Social mood regulates parents’ optimism about the future and, in turn, whether they should have a baby: “When aggregate feelings of friskiness, daring and confidence wax, people engage in more sexual activity with the aim of having children. When these feelings wane, so does the desire for generating offspring.”
   
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  [Article] The State-Sponsored Stuxnet Attack in Iran: No Surprise

  If you have not read the story of Stuxnet, take time to educate yourself on the basics of what has been called “the ‘best’ malware ever” and “a working and fearsome prototype of a cyber-weapon that will lead to the creation of a new arms race in the world.”