Not just dead meat: an evolutionary account of corpse treatment in mortuary rituals

There will be regional differences in intimacy of contact with the dead.

Test
Test Name	Support	Significance	Coefficient	Tail
Kruskal-Wallis analysis of variance	Not Supported	`UNKNOWN`	`UNKNOWN`	`UNKNOWN`

Variables
Variable Name	Variable Type	OCM Term(s)
Intimacy Of Contact With The Dead	`UNKNOWN`	Burial Practices And Funerals, Mourning, Special Burial Practices And Funerals, Ritual
Region	`UNKNOWN`	Location

Main Author	Published Year	Hypothesis	Supported	Variables Tested
Lester, David	1971	"The prediction was that a high incidence of suicide would be associated with a low fear of the dead" (207)	Not Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Broude, Gwen J.	1987	Marital intimacy will prevail in societies that do not provide other human support systems (60).	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
de Munck, Victor C.	2007	Equality of spouses should be positively associated with husband-wife intimacy (308).	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Broude, Gwen J.	1987	Marital intimacy will be related to caretaking experiences in childhood (63).	Not Supported	3	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Lester, David	1969	"[There is a correlation between] the degree to which nonliterate societies fear the dead as causes of illness and the needs for achievement and affiliation as evidenced in the folk tales of the societies" (283)	Not Supported	3	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author