The recent years have been characterized by stormy social protests throughout the world. These protests have some commonalities, but at the same time, their sociopolitical, psychological, and economic contexts differ essentially. An important class of such protests is known as color revolutions. The analysis of these events in social and political literature is characterized by huge diversity of opinions. We remark that the sociopolitical perturbations under consideration are characterized by the cascade dynamics leading to the exponential amplification of coherent social actions. In quantum physics, such exponential and coherent amplification is the basic feature of laser's functioning. (Laser is acronym for light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation). In this book we explore the theory of laser to model aforementioned waves of social protests, from color revolutions to Brexit and Trump's election. We call such social processes Stimulated Amplification of Social Actions (SASA), but to keep closer to the analogy with physics we merely operate with the term social laser.

Front Cover -- Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- 1.1: Interplay of Psychology and Physics: Historical Overview -- 1.2: Quantum Brain -- 1.3: Quantum-Like Modeling of Cognition and Decision Making -- 1.3.1: From Probabilistic Foundations of Quantum Mechanics to Quantum-Like Modeling -- 1.3.2: Quantum-Like Models Outside Physics -- 1.4: Operational Formalism: Creation and Annihilation Operators -- 1.5: Social Laser as a Fruit of the Quantum Information Revolution

1.6: Bose-Einstein Statistics of Information Excitations -- 1.7: Powerful Information Flows as the Basic Condition of Social Laser Functioning -- 1.8: Resonators of Physical and Social Lasers -- Chapter 2: Social Laser Model for Stimulated Amplification of Social Actions -- 2.1: What Can Be Expected from the Social Laser Model? -- 2.2: Color Revolutions -- 2.3: Democratic Social Protests -- 2.4: Social Energy Pumping -- 2.5: Quick Relaxation -- 2.6: Echo Chambers -- 2.7: Conflating Opposition Protests with Warfare -- Chapter 3: Basics of Physical Lasing -- 3.1: Laser: History of Invention

3.2: Spontaneous and Stimulated Emission -- 3.3: Population Inversion -- Chapter 4: Basics of Social Lasing -- 4.1: Social Energy -- 4.1.1: Energy of Social Atoms -- 4.1.2: Energy of the Quantum Information Field -- 4.2: Quantum Field Representation of the Information Flow Generated by Mass Media -- 4.3: Coloring Information Excitations -- 4.4: From Rough-Coloring to Indistinguishability -- 4.5: The Role of Emotions in Transition to the Indistinguishability Mode: Illustration by Military and Revolutionary Propaganda -- 4.6: Hidden Variables: Genuine Quantum versus Quantum-Like Models

4.7: Coloring Role: Pumping versus Emission -- 4.8: Comparing Stimulated Emission in Quantum Physics and the Bandwagon Effect in Psychology and Social Science -- 4.9: Social Lasing Schematically -- Chapter 5: Information Thermodynamics -- 5.1: Thermodynamics from Combinatorics of State Distribution -- 5.2: Thermodynamics of Distinguishable Systems -- 5.3: Thermodynamics of Indistinguishable Systems -- 5.3.1: Social Temperature -- 5.3.2: Possible Statistics -- Chapter 6: Thermodynamical Approach to Modeling Population Inversion for Social Laser

6.1: Einstein Coefficients and Balance Equation for Human Gain Medium Interacting with Information Field -- 6.2: Balance Equation for Steady State and Population Inversion -- 6.3: Information Laser: The Four-Level Model -- 6.3.1: Radiative versus Nonradiative Emission for Physical Atoms -- 6.3.2: Mental Analogues of Radiative and Nonradiative Emissions -- 6.3.3: Balance Equation for Steady State and Population Inversion -- 6.4: Concluding Remark -- Chapter 7: Laser Resonator -- 7.1: Resonators of Physical Lasers -- 7.1.1: Spontaneous Initiation of Physical Lasing

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