A cross-cultural study of reincarnation ideologies and their social correlates

4) Reincarnation beliefs and the belief in soul singularity will be positively associated with spirit fragmentation at death.

Test
Test Name	Support	Significance	Coefficient	Tail
Fisher's exact probability test	Supported	.035	Phi= .69	One-tailed

Main Author	Published Year	Hypothesis	Supported	Variables Tested
Matlock, James Graham	1993	3) Reincarnation beliefs will be positively associated with the belief in soul multiplicity.	Not Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Matlock, James Graham	1993	21) Reincarnation beliefs are positively associated mark or mutilate bodies at death.	Not Tested	0	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Matlock, James G.	1995	Retested Somersan's hypothesis that matrilineal societies would be characterized by death symbolism (ancestral spirit and reincarnation beliefs).	Not Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Matlock, James G.	1995	Unilineal societies will be positively associated with prominent beliefs in ancestral spirits and reincarnation (170)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Matlock, James Graham	1993	27) Reincarnation beliefs are positively associated with name taboos after a death, which are expelled at the point of a new child being born.	Not Tested	0	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author