The economic origins of the evil eye belief

In weakly institutionalized traditional societies, the evil eye belief will be associated with wealth inequality.

Table 2

Test
Test Name	Support	Significance	Coefficient	Tail
Regression	Supported	`UNKNOWN`	R-squared = .41	`UNKNOWN`

Variables
Variable Name	Variable Type	OCM Term(s)
Continental Dummies	Independent	Location
Evil Eye Belief	Dependent	Social Control, Sorcery, Theory Of Disease
Local Hierarchy	Independent	Community Heads, Community Councils, Local Officials
Money	Independent	Medium Of Exchange
Population Density	Independent	Population
Settlement Pattern	Independent	Settlement Patterns, Urban And Rural Life
Specialization	Independent	`NONE`
Stratification Dummy	Independent	Accumulation Of Wealth, Classes
Urbanization	Independent	Cities, Composition Of Population, Urban And Rural Life

Main Author	Published Year	Hypothesis	Supported	Variables Tested
Roberts, John M.	1976	". . . there is a positive association between cultural complexity and the evil eye belief . . ." (235)f	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Roberts, John M.	1976	"[There is an] . . . increasing likelihood of the evil eye belief as the size of the domestic animals increases" (243)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Roberts, John M.	1976	". . . societies possessing the evil eye belief tended to be politically autonomous . . ." (248)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Roberts, John M.	1976	". . . the evil-eye-belief scale is . . . associated with . . . a developed judiciary" (250)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Roberts, John M.	1976	". . . the evil eye is associated with . . . communities [larger than 1000]" (245)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author