Pregnancy magic:  a study of food taboos and sex avoidances

"The largest number of food taboos [in pregnancy] should be observed in societies where there is a high reward of dependency in childhood" (115)

Test
Test Name	Support	Significance	Coefficient	Tail
Fisher’s exact test	Supported	p<.01	`UNKNOWN`	`UNKNOWN`

Variables
Variable Name	Variable Type	OCM Term(s)
Childhood Reward For Dependency	Independent	Independence Training
Number Of Foods Tabooed During Pregnancy	Dependent	Pregnancy

Main Author	Published Year	Hypothesis	Supported	Variables Tested
Ayres, Barbara	1967	"The severity of the sanctions associated with violation of food taboos [in pregnancy] will be positively related to the severity of punishment for dependent behavior in childhood" (117)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Textor, Robert B.	1967	Societies with food taboos during pregnancy will tend to have a writing system that is mnemonic or absent (286, 77).	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Textor, Robert B.	1967	Societies with food taboos during pregnancy will tend to be those where people have a high fear of strangers (286, 441).	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Ayres, Barbara	1967	"There is . . . a positive relationship between severity of punishment for sexual behavior and the duration of the sex taboo but [it] does not quite reach the acceptable 5 percent level of significance" (119)	Partially supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Ayres, Barbara	1967	"A long sex taboo [during pregnancy] does in fact occur more frequently in polygynous than in monogamous societies" (121)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author