A cross-cultural study of the effects of environmental unpredictability on aggression in folktales

Environmental unpredictability will be positively associated with capricious aggression in folktales (475)

Test
Test Name	Support	Significance	Coefficient	Tail
Spearman’s rank-order correlation	Supported	p<.01	?=.84	One-tailed

Variables
Variable Name	Variable Type	OCM Term(s)
Capricious Aggression In Folktales	Dependent	Verbal Arts, Literary Texts, Texts Translated Into English
Environmental Unpredictability	Independent	Climate, Disasters, Gratification And Control Of Hunger

Main Author	Published Year	Hypothesis	Supported	Variables Tested
Cohen, Alex	1990	Environmental unpredictability is positively associated with the response of submission/flight to acts of capricious aggression in folktales (478)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Wright, G. O.	1970	"Agents of projected aggression [in folktales] are chosen farther and farther out on the generalization continuum as a function of the amount of aggression anxiety" (355)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Kavanaugh, Patrick	2021	Unpredictability of resources will be negatively associated with property ownership	Not supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Low, Bobbi S.	1988	Unpredictability in climatic variables, particularly rainfall, will influence primary productivity, presence of herbivores, and availability of food (238).	Supported	4	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Wright, G. O.	1970	"Objects of displaced aggression are chosen farther and farther out on the generalization continuum as a function of the amount of aggression anxiety" (352)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author