The economic origins of the evil eye belief

In weakly institutionalized traditional societies, the evil eye belief will be associated with modes of production.

Table 7

Test
Test Name	Support	Significance	Coefficient	Tail
Regression	Supported	`UNKNOWN`	R-squared = .427	`UNKNOWN`

Variables
Variable Name	Variable Type	OCM Term(s)
Agriculture	Independent	Diet, Tillage
Evil Eye Belief	Dependent	Social Control, Sorcery, Theory Of Disease
Horticulture	Independent	Tillage, Diet
Pastoralism	Independent	Animal Husbandry, Diet
Specialization	Independent	Occupational Specialization
Stratification Dummy	Independent	Accumulation Of Wealth, Classes

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