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  As the Cold War Builds Abroad, The Security State Expands at Home – Part 3

  This issue continues our look at the security state’s development, focusing on 1966-1982 and clashing anti-authoritarians.
   
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  Socionomists Are Increasingly Certain About Uncertainty

  Do negative events cause the future to be less certain? Socionomists believe…
   
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  Positive Social Mood Continues to Encourage Unusual Baby Names

  A follow-up look at baby names, which have become a hotter topic with academics.
   
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  What Can Time Magazine’s Person of the Year Tell You About the Stock Market?

  A lot, as shown in this brief excerpt from, Socionomic Studies of Society and Culture.
   
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  Should We Stay or Should We Go? Negative Mood Is Increasing the Potential for Secession in Europe

  At least six European countries, Denmark, Belgium, France, Spain, the UK and Italy, have secession movements underway.
   
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  Social Mood Stimulates the Sultans of Swat

  Social mood has regulated trends in baseball and stocks for nearly 150 years.
   
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  The German Election: For Now, Social Mood Is Working in Angela Merkel’s Favor

  An incumbent candidate’s victory or loss may not reflect his or her level of competence.
   
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  [Article] Mood and Mosquitoes: Brazil’s Zika Epidemic Demonstrates Socionomic Causality

  What role has social mood played in the highly publicized Zika epidemic that has ravaged Brazil?
   
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  [Article] Will Social Mood Oust Trump? Watch the Stock Market

  Social images of public figures are a matter of timing with social mood.
   
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  [Article] Is the Fog of War Also the Fog of Negative Mood?

  Disinformation is proliferating as countries engage in belligerence-on-the-cheap.