Post Tagged with: "Public Figures"

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  [Mood Riffs] Positive Social Mood Lifts Obama

  Social mood, not external factors such as GDP, determine presidents’ popularity.
   
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  [Mood Riffs] Cuba, US Restore Relations

  US and Cuba on Wednesday announce a “normalizing” of diplomatic relations after a half-century old embargo.
   
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  [Mood Riffs] “Do I Make You Angry, Baby?”

  Daniel Craig, the latest Bond, is “a seemingly much more damaged individual” compared to previous Bond flicks.
   
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  [Mood Riffs] Mayor For Life

  Former four-time D.C. Mayor Marion Barry died over the weekend.
   
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  [Article] The Socionomics of Rory Mania: How Social Mood Shapes Rory McIlroy’s Popularity and Career

  Socionomist Chuck Thompson explains that McIlroy’s PGA Tour wins correspond with positive extremes in social mood.
   
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  [Mood Riffs] If Ping Pong Paid Like This, It’d Be “Sayonara Socionomics Institute” For Me!

  The Florida Marlins just slammed one out of the ball park, signing a monster, 13-year, $325 million deal.
   
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  [Mood Riffs] Candyfloss and Fizz

  Taylor Swift’s new energetic pop-album “1989” sold 1.287 million copies in the first week, widely crushing industry predictions.
   
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  Four Surges in Negative Mood Define 100 Years of the American Security State – Part 2: 1929-1954

  Part 2 explores the authoritarian trends of the second major negative mood period – from 1929 to 1954.
   
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  [Mood Riffs] Thin Barbie Is a Heavy Weight for Mattel

  Since Barbie was introduced in 1959, opinions about the doll have fluctuated depending on social mood.
   
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  [Article] Social Mood Regulates the Popularity of Stars. Case in Point: The Beatles

  In one of our most-read articles, Elliott Wave International and Socionomics Institute founder Robert Prechter, Jr. uses the Beatles as a case study of how social mood drives the popularity (and unpopularity) of public figures.