Research

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  [Article] Non-Traditional Candidates Still Making Waves

  A carnival singer finished third in Haiti’s Nov. 28 Presidential election. Consequently, protesters clashed with U.N. peacekeepers — claiming his campaign was the victim of election fraud and voter intimidation. Discover what’s behind the rise in support of “joke” candidates.
   
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  [Article] 2010: The Deadliest Drug War Year in Mexico So Far

  The statistics are sobering: 15,000 dead in 2010 (30,000 in four years); 230,000 Juarez Drug War refugees; 6,000 Juarez businesses closed. Find out what the Institute sees next for Mexico’s drug war — and what this portends for marijuana legalization.
   
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  [Article] Of Mice and Mood, Part Two of a Study on Animation and Socionomics

  In this must-read follow-up to Euan Wilson’s cartoons study, you’ll discover how social mood drives the nature of cartoon violence, color palette, animation styles and themes.
   
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  [Article] How Picasso Profited from Social Mood

  Alan Hall considers exactly how this painter and his work achieved larger-than-life popularity.
   
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  [Article] Federal Employees Under Scrutiny

  Increasingly authoritarian government rule is not surprising given the ongoing bear market in social mood at Cycle, Supercycle and Grand Supercycle degree.
   
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  [Article] Oprah is Back with the Primary Wave Bull Market

  This famous bull market icon recently launched a new television venture, the Oprah Winfrey Network. The fact the channel premiered when it did wasn’t surprising, but will it survive? Learn which single key factor will determine its fate.
   
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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] The Mainstream Reports On the Financial/Economic Dichotomy

  “Financial markets do not operate in the same way as those for other goods and services. When the price of a television set or software package goes up, demand for it generally falls. When the price of a financial asset rises, demand generally increases.”
  —The Economist, August 12, 2010
   
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  [Article] Declining Social Mood Means Increasing Surveillance in the U.S.

  Increased expressions of authoritarianism in concert with declining social mood.
   
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  [Article] Why A Well-Known Scholar Embraced Socionomics

  This month Dave Allman conducts a wide-ranging interview with John Casti, scholar, entrepreneur and author of numerous books, including the well-received socionomics primer Mood Matters this spring. Excerpts of their conversation follow. —Ed.