Science

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  [Article] Bear-Market Stress is Weakening Society

  2011, Abridged Article, Alan Hall, Article, Science, The Socionomist

  Disease Update: A perfect storm of mood, malaise and pathogens.

   
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  [Article] Shechtman Scaled Walls of Skepticism En Route to Nobel Prize

  2011, Andrea Dibben, Article, Research, Science, The Socionomist

  New science breaks old paradigms. “[Daniel Shechtman] discovered a type of crystal that contains spiral arrangements and is governed by Fibonacci mathematics. Initially believed impossible…”

   
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  [Article] PhiMatrix Brings Phi to Life

  2011, Article, Science, The Socionomist

  Phi (or the Golden Ratio) appears in everything from atoms to Elliott Waves. What is this unique equation? Find out in The Socionomist.

   
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  [Video] Prechter on Neurobiology: Fighting, Fleeing, Flocking, etc.

  Free Updates, Science, Toward a New Science of Social Prediction, Video

  Prechter’s Socionomics explains how and why our brains make it so hard to buy low and sell high

   
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  [Article] Are Crowds Wise—or Mad?

  2011, Alan Hall, Article, Research, Science, The Socionomist

  “The wisdom of crowd effect” does exist — as long as a crowd’s members do not interact. As soon as members know what other members think, they cease to act independently. They begin to follow what the group does, even to their detriment.

   
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  [Article] Did U C New Studies? Tweets N Blogs Predict Equity Prices!!

  2011, Article, Euan Wilson, Financial Markets, Research, Science, Socionomics Theory, The Socionomist

  Recently published and preliminary work from researchers at four universities indicate that trends in social mood as displayed in social media predict price moves in the stock market. The studies provide important further evidence of the socionomic hypothesis: that changes in states of unconscious social mood precede—because they motivate—changes in the stock market and other social events.