Post Tagged with: "Euan Wilson"

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  Will You Make the Cut? Pro-Eugenics Ideas May Resurface As Negative Mood Deepens

  Alan Hall reveals how the large mood fluctuations shaped the eugenics movement in America and abroad and how it not only changes people’s valuation of financial and other assets — it changes how humans value others. Hall puts the pieces of the puzzle together and makes a startling forecast for a resurging ideology most believe to be dead.
   
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  [Article] Craving Dark TV Shows This Season? How Social Mood Affects Programming

  Television heralded a new era in popular media so it’s no surprise that popular television shows reflect the social mood of the times. For an example, Euan Wilson d how TV networks can benefit from socionomics by graphing the audience sizes between Showtime and HBO during a bear market and by the types of the shows presented.
   
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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 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] 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.