Research

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  [Article] A Muscle Car Resurrection? Big Social Mood Move Leads to Burning Rubber

  Why have American automakers recently produced a new generation of ultra “muscle cars”? Learn the answer in this latest update on social mood and the cars we drive.
   
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  [Article] Evaluating a Potential New Sociometer

  The Gallup Healthways Well-Being Index ask respondents about “positive and negative emotions” each day. What’s the preliminary verdict?
   
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  [Article] Murdoch Deal: The End of a Boom?

  Rupert Murdoch’s previous acquisitions have been a key timing signal. What might the latest one — his biggest ever — signify for News Corp’s stock prices and Australia’s ASX?
   
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  [Article] Growing Polarization: Pension Envy and Hate Groups

  The year 2010 saw a new record number of hate groups and growing tensions between the public and private sector. Is this increasing polarization ending — or just beginning?
   
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  [Article] Forecasting: Predicting Tomorrow Based on Today

  “The economy is on the mend,” say experts, but their only rationale is that it was on the mend last year. What’s the flaw in this thinking?
   
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  [Article] Authoritarianism vs. Anti-authoritarianism: Conflict Intensifies

  Discover how socionomics anticipated an increase in these anti-authoritarian rebellions around the globe.
   
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  [Article] The Education Industry Shows Signs of Collapse

  Guess what economic measure rose 800% since 1997? Not home prices. Not medical costs. Student loans! In fact, education debt now almost equals U.S. defense spending.
   
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  [Article] A Socionomic View of War, Stocks and Commodities

  Instead of asking how war affects the economy, stocks or commodities, the socionomist asks, “How do fluctuations in social mood affect the prices of stocks and commodities, the strength of the economy and the likelihood of war?” This non-conventional approach to causality eliminates conflicting assumptions and rationalizations, and provides the simplest explanation of the available data.
   
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  [Article] Anti-Authoritarian Conflict

  In Tunisia, Libya, Lebanon, Yemen, Algeria, Jordan and Egypt, thousands of Islamist and secular protesters thronged the streets demanding the removal of their corrupt authoritarian leaders. Our authoritarianism study in the April 2010 issue of The Socionomist anticipated such conflict
   
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  [Article] Did U C New Studies? Tweets N Blogs Predict Equity Prices!!

  Recently published and preliminary work from researchers at four universities indicate that trends in social mood as displayed in social media predict price moves in the stock market. The studies provide important further evidence of the socionomic hypothesis: that changes in states of unconscious social mood precede—because they motivate—changes in the stock market and other social events.