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Shelf Location	Collection	Volume Ref.	Branch	Status	Due Date
303.4 CAS	Adult Non Fiction		Bankstown .	. Available .

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Field name	Details
ISBN	9783642048340 (hbk.)
ISBN	364204834X (hbk.)
Name	Casti, J. L.
Title	Mood matters : from rising skirt lengths to the collapse of world powers / John L. Casti.
Published	New York : Copernicus Books, 2010.
Description	xxiv, 250 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
Notes	Includes bibliographic references (p. 225-245) and index.
Contents	The unconventional wisdom -- Why "stuff" happens -- Why hits happen -- Why wars, economic cycles, and political crises happen -- Why great powers come and go -- Getting it together.
Summary	Casti argues that human affairs-- fashions, economic trends and the fall of governments or wars-- can be traced back to an underlying social mood, which heavily biases the way things develop.
Subjects	Social change -- Psychological aspects
	Mood (Psychology)
	Causation
	Social psychology
	Social prediction
Links to Related Works	Subject References: Causation . Mood (Psychology) . Social change -- Psychological aspects . Social prediction . Social psychology . See Also: Beginning . God . Metaphysics . Teleology . Emotions . Personality . Crime forecasting . Forecasting . Social indicators . Sociology . Alienation (Social psychology) . Discrimination . Ethnopsychology . Human ecology . Interpersonal relations . Interviewing . National characteristics . Organizational behavior . Political psychology . Social groups . Social interaction . Social isolation . Social movements . Social role . Sociology . Stereotype (Psychology) . Violence . Broader Subject References: Psychology . Authors: Casti, J. L. .

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Mood matters : from rising skirt lengths to the collapse of world powers / John L. Casti.