Post Tagged with: "Social Mood"

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  [Article] Women in Politics

  Feminism gains power during corrections.
   
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  [Article] Euthanasia

  The debate over euthanasia in the past several decades suggests that negative mood may also raise the public’s tolerance of mercy killing.
   
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  [Article] Nuclear Tests

  For years we have maintained that the detonation of nuclear bombs, while it may stir transient emotions, has no effect on the social mood; rather, social mood determines the penchant for exploding nuclear devices.
   
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  [Article] Aircraft Accidents

  We postulated that a negative social mood—held by passengers, crew, maintenance workers and pilots alike—would tend to increase the chances for aircraft accidents and that a positive social mood would decrease them. Indeed that is the case.
   
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  [Article] Natural Sweeteners (Sugars and Syrups)

  Commentators perennially ask us, “Could the positive social mood that produced the financial mania since the late 1990s be a product of the popularity of mood-elevating pharmaceutical drugs such as Prozac?” Those familiar with the socionomic hypothesis (that social mood motivates social action) can probably predict our response.
   
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  [Article] Socionomics and the Sudden Wave of Violence

  The U.S. market has proved to be a reliable forecaster of coming periods of global peace or conflict. Specifically, major declines in the U.S. stock market have forewarned of major international conflicts.
   
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  [Article] Social Mood Shapes Aggregate Opinion Regardless of Data

  One way to identify the effects of inflation and deflation is to observe significant changes in the money supply and in producer and consumer prices. One would think that as such measures rise, experts would be concerned about increasing inflation, and as those measures fall, they might begin to fear deflation. Is that what actually happens?
   
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  [Article] Predicting Economic and Monetary Trends

  How does one apply socionomic techniques to economic forecasting? A socionomist knows that the stock market is a meter of social mood, which is the engine of social progress and regress. Therefore, the current-time change in the stock market is an immensely useful indicator of upcoming economic change.