Press Room

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  NFL brain dangers exposed by nation’s negative mood

  From the little dreamers running onto pee-wee fields to the larger-than-life gladiators of the NFL, America’s most popular sport will own much of our attention over the next six months.
   
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  Why Zika, Why Now? Ask the Brazilian Stock Market

  As Zika spreads, the race is on to determine how big a risk the virus poses for the Olympics.
   
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  It Isn’t “The Economy, Stupid”

  Study Shows Economy and Markets Cannot Predict This Year’s Election.
   
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  This Chart Explains the Simmering Korea Conflict

  Shots have been fired along the Korean border, and Pyongyang has placed its military in a “quasi state of war.”
   
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  UK Election Results Shouldn’t Be a Surprise

  So the pollsters told us that the UK election was a dead heat. They were dead wrong. Our tools anticipated the outcome without polling a single person.
   
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  [Press] Want Legalized Marijuana? Better Hope America Stays Grumpy

  Euan Wilson, researcher at the Socionomic Institute, was featured in a recent interview at Bloomberg’s Businessweek. In this interview, Euan states his case for how social mood will affect the legalization of marijuana.
   
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  A Big Reason for Obama’s Big Win? The Nation’s Improved Mood

  Suppose with just a few clicks of the calculator you could have predicted the outcome of the 2012 election.
   
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  The Socionomic Timing of Multiple Shootings

  Alan Hall, a researcher at the Georgia-based think tank and the author of the study, said, “Most people think random, multiple-victim shootings make people fearful, but new data suggest that a fearful society is more likely to suffer multiple-shooting violence.”
   
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  [Press] Will Obama Win in November? New Study Says, “Ask the Stock Market”

  A landmark new study challenges the conventional wisdom about which factors truly motivate voters in presidential elections.
   
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  The Real Reason WikiLeaks Is Going Dark

  The WikiLeaks controversy is an early skirmish in an epic, brewing battle over Internet regulation and freedoms.