The Socionomist

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  [Article] Losing Nemo: Herding Suppresses Individual Personality in Fish

  Many animals “herd, flock, school and swarm, including fish.
   
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  [Article] “Like Ew! Grody to the Max!” Social Mood Influences the Tenor of Popular Slang

  We wondered if social mood might influence the tenor of popular slang words and phrases that emerge over time.
   
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  [Article] Eurosceptic Parties Are on the Move in Italy and France

  Negative social mood leads people to forsake the political center and gravitate toward extremes.
   
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  A Stunning Reversal in the 500-Year Trend Toward Globalization

  Social mood regulates our perceptions of other people and our willingness to cooperate with them.
   
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  Who Controls Interest Rates? See for Yourself

  When times are good central bankers are heroes. The public lauds them for using interest rates to help the economy.
   
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  Third Parties Make a Splash in 2016 Election Waters

  Political polarization in the United States is generating strong interest in third-party presidential candidates.
   
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  [Article] Welcome to a Larger World with Fewer Friends: A Reversal in the 500-Year Trend Toward Globalization

  Alan Hall looks at the shift in globalization’s popularity that we’ve witnessed in recent years.
   
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  A Socionomic Study of Eugenics: Will You Make the Cut?

  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] Negative Social Mood Has Increased Political Polarization on Both Sides of the Pond

  The July 2016 Socionomist looks at the polarization that’s dividing people on both sides of the Atlantic.
   
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  Still Early in a Season of Susceptibility

  We found that major epidemics of the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries tended to occur near the end of severe or extended declines in stock market indexes.