God's punishment and public goods

Societies in which high gods are more active and concerned with human morality will be more loyal to the local and wider community (421).

Test
Test Name	Support	Significance	Coefficient	Tail
tau-b	Not Supported	above .10	`UNKNOWN`	Two-tailed

Variables
Variable Name	Variable Type	OCM Term(s)
Loyalty To The Local Community	Dependent	Ethics, Territorial Hierarchy
Loyalty To The Wider Society	Dependent	Identification, Ethics
Presence Of High Gods	Independent	Avoidance And Taboo, Prayers And Sacrifices, Spirits And Gods

Main Author	Published Year	Hypothesis	Supported	Variables Tested
Demerath, Loren	2015	Gossip will be more important in societies with higher levels of community loyalty (303).	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Demerath, Loren	2015	Levels of gender autonomy, urbanization, and loyalty to wider society will all have significant effects on gossip importance (306-7).	Supported	4	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Watts, Joseph	2015	High political complexity has coevolved with moralizing high gods (2, 5)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Johnson, Dominic D.P.	2005	In a multiple regression model, presence of high gods will be positively associated with money and credit, credit source, community size, jurisdictional hierarchy beyond the local community, and sanctions (426).	Supported	6	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Watts, Joseph	2015	The presence of moralizing high gods facilitates and sustains high political complexity (2, 5).	Not Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author