Archive for category: Cultural Trends

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  [Article] Nuclear Tests

  Cultural Trends, Mark Galasiewski, Politics

  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

  Cultural Trends, Mark Galasiewski, Socionomics

  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)

  Cultural Trends, Mark Galasiewski

  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

  Cultural Trends, Mark Galasiewski, Politics

  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] Saddam Hussein’s Capture

  Cultural Trends, Politics, Socionomics Theory

  So in the face of abundant evidence to the contrary, why does the media (and much of Wall Street) still embrace the myth that news moves markets?

   
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  [Article] Challenging the Conventional Assumption About the Presumed Sociological Effect of Terrorist News

  Cultural Trends, Robert Prechter, Socionomics Theory

  There is probably not one person in a million who would disagree with the conventional view, espoused everywhere, that the attacks of September 11, 2001 and the subsequent deliverance of anthrax-laced letters to individuals shattered the confidence of Americans. Yet that conclusion flies in the face of the facts.