Avoidance, social affiliation, and the incest taboo

"Residence proved to be unrelated to avoidance [of parents-in-law] by either husband or wife" (313)

Test
Test Name	Support	Significance	Coefficient	Tail
Chi square	Supported	Not Applicable	`UNKNOWN`	`UNKNOWN`

Variables
Variable Name	Variable Type	OCM Term(s)
Avoidance Of Parents-in-law	Dependent	Parents-in-law And Children-in-law
Residence	Independent	Residence

Main Author	Published Year	Hypothesis	Supported	Variables Tested
Sweetser, Dorrian Apple	1966	"Men avoid their parents-in-law in societies with a strong lineal emphasis but which have fragmented and impermanent family groups" (313)	Supported	3	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Witkowski, Stanley	1972	Father-in-law/daughter-in-law avoidance should be more likely to occur where there is household co-residence (243, 250)	Not Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Sweetser, Dorrian Apple	1966	Contrary to the findings of William N. Stephens no significant association was found between avoidance and a long postpartum sex taboo (311)	Not Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Witkowski, Stanley	1972	"The residential proximity hypothesis suggests that institutionalized avoidance practices should be more likely to occur when the avoiding parties are living in the same household than when they are just living in the same community." [Mother-in-law/son-in-law avoidance increases with the degree of household co-residence] (249)	Not Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Murdock, George Peter	1971	"Tylor advanced the plausible hypothesis that mother-in-law avoidance should be highly correlated with matrilocal residence" (366)	Not Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author