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ReviewFrontiers in sociology2024

Is society caught up in a Death Spiral? Modeling societal demise and its reversal.

Michaéla C Schippers, John P A Ioannidis, Matthias W J Luijks

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Review in Frontiers in sociology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Michaéla C SchippersDepartment of Organisation and Personnel Management, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
John P A IoannidisDepartment of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States.
Matthias W J LuijksDepartment of History of Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Just like an army of ants caught in an ant mill, individuals, groups and even whole societies are sometimes caught up in a Death Spiral, a vicious cycle of self-reinforcing dysfunctional behavior characterized by continuous flawed decision making, myopic single-minded focus on one (set of) solution(s), denial, distrust, micromanagement, dogmatic thinking and learned helplessness. We propose the term

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complex adaptive systemsDeath Spiral Effectdysfunctional behaviorelite and massesincome inequalitiessocietal collapsestrengthening of democracyturnaround leadership

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PMID38533441
PMCPMC10964949

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