A Cross-Cultural Summary: Pregnancy

Societies with food taboos during pregnancy will tend to have a writing system that is mnemonic or absent (286, 77).

Test
Test Name	Support	Significance	Coefficient	Tail
Fisher's Exact Test	Supported	p = .046	Phi = -.516	Two-tailed

Variables
Variable Name	Variable Type	OCM Term(s)
Writing System	Association	Writing
Pregnancy Food Taboos	Association	Pregnancy

Main Author	Published Year	Hypothesis	Supported	Variables Tested
Textor, Robert B.	1967	Societies with food taboos during pregnancy will tend to be those where people have a high fear of strangers (286, 441).	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Ayres, Barbara	1967	"The largest number of food taboos [in pregnancy] should be observed in societies where there is a high reward of dependency in childhood" (115)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Ayres, Barbara	1967	"A long sex taboo [during pregnancy] does in fact occur more frequently in polygynous than in monogamous societies" (121)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Ayres, Barbara	1967	"The severity of the sanctions associated with violation of food taboos [in pregnancy] will be positively related to the severity of punishment for dependent behavior in childhood" (117)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Ayres, Barbara	1967	"[There is] a relationship between norms of premarital sex behavior [as a measure of sex anxiety] and duration of the sex taboo during pregnancy. [Strict norms tend to result in long duration]" (122)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author