2011

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  [Article] Negative Mood Sickens Society

  Disease Update: A perfect storm of mood, malaise and pathogens.
   
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  [Article] Despite Isolation, Amish Succumb to Polarization Impulse

  Negative social mood trends induce conflicts between groups and within groups. The disharmony among the Amish is an extreme example of how conflict can arise even within apparently homogenous groups.
   
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  [Article] Does Social Mood Influence Accusations of Presidential Ineligibility?

  Social mood has a dramatic effect on the public’s attitude toward sitting leaders. The socionomic model shows that rising social mood tends to lead to presidential reelections while falling social mood leads to oustings.
   
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  [Article] The Auto-Tune Epidemic

  Large-degree market turns tend to signal seismic shifts in popular music.
   
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  [Article] Bad Mood is Good News

  Is the popularity of news itself mood-dependent? As our preliminary study shows, the answer appears to be “Yes.”
   
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  [Article] Alliances Cracking as Mood Declines

  Protectionism has appeared this year in the form of threats by multiple nations against one another. China is at the center of many of the disputes.
   
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  [Article] Measurement Points to All the Same Market

  The flip side of markets going up together is that when the reversal comes they all go down together.
   
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  [Article] Shechtman Scaled Walls of Skepticism En Route to Nobel Prize

  New science breaks old paradigms. “[Daniel Shechtman] discovered a type of crystal that contains spiral arrangements and is governed by Fibonacci mathematics. Initially believed impossible…”
   
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  [Article] PhiMatrix Brings Phi to Life

  Phi (or the Golden Ratio) appears in everything from atoms to Elliott Waves. What is this unique equation? Find out in The Socionomist.
   
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  [Article] The Authoritarianism Battle: Governments Increase their Monitoring and Control of Citizens

  Discover which governments now lead the race to control digital information, and in turn their own citizens.