Research

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  [Article] Social Mood Governs Speed Limits, Auto Design, and Traffic Fatality Levels

  Euan Wilson takes the wheel and drives right to the heart of how social mood affects trends in auto design, driving habits, and even your safety on the road in this issue of the Socionomist.
   
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  [Article] The Wave Principle Delineates Phases of Social Caution and Ebullience

  This multi-decade study sketches a broad guide for anticipating phases in wealth-related social action. Robert Prechter and Alan Hall team up to discuss how four cyclical phases of social psychology influence attitudes on tax rates, financial regulation, relative financial wages, credit market debt, and wealth inequality.
   
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  [Article] Murder and the Market

  Along with reintroduction of Robert Prechter’s socionomic theory of how society creates serial killers and when they are most likely to strike, contributing writer, Professor Ken Olson, disentangles the relationship between murder rates and the stock market.
   
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  [Article] The Coming Collapse of the Marijuana Prohibition

  History shows that mood governs society’s tolerance for recreational drugs. A rising social mood produces prohibition of substances such as alcohol and marijuana; a falling mood produces tolerance and relaxed regulation. In the case of alcohol, the path from prohibition to decriminalization became littered with corruption and violence as the government waged a failed war on traffickers. Eventually, as mood continued to sour, the government finally capitulated to public cries for decriminalization as a means to end the corruption and bloodshed.
   
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  [Article] A Socionomic View of Epidemic Disease

  Negative social mood increases stress and disrupts routines, sanitation, households, social relationships, and, ultimately, human immunity.
   
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  [Article] Sky High Construction? Not in Saudi Arabia or Dubai

  Commonly referred to as the Skyscraper Indicator, this study examines why impressive construction projects tend to start right after major peaks in social mood.
   
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  [Article] A Socionomic View of Epidemic Disease

  It’s widely believed that epidemics make people fearful, but as you will see in this report, socionomic causality better explains the data, which show that fearful people are more susceptible to epidemics.
   
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  [Article] A Socionomic Study of Epidemic Disease

  Alan Hall’s two-part in-depth study, “A Socionomic Study of Epidemic Disease,” shows how negative social mood establishes conditions precipitating outbreaks of epidemic diseases. Part 1 explores a 600-year history of diseases in bear markets and how society becomes vulnerable. Part 2 focuses on the psychological and physiological mechanisms by which negative social mood compromises human immunity, charts illustrating the timing and similarity of epidemics to financial manias and more potential threats on the horizon.
   
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  [Article] The New Global Bull Market in Socialism

  Extremes in negative social mood portend a rise in socialist literature and a desire for the power over people.
   
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  The Financial/Economic Dichotomy in Social Behavioral Dynamics

  This landmark paper by Robert Prechter and Wayne Parker, PhD., proposes a new model of finance.