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- Population density will be positively associated with high homicide rates (329)Bolton, Ralph - The ecology of East African homicide, 1973 - 2 Variables
Using homicide rates as an indicator, this article examines the ecological factors that might be functioning as stressors in the environment of thirty-four East African tribes. A series of hypotheses dealing with the relationships between these stressors and tribal levels of aggressiveness are tested.
Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author - Geographic location and climatic zone will be positively associated with homicide rates (331-333)Bolton, Ralph - The ecology of East African homicide, 1973 - 3 Variables
Using homicide rates as an indicator, this article examines the ecological factors that might be functioning as stressors in the environment of thirty-four East African tribes. A series of hypotheses dealing with the relationships between these stressors and tribal levels of aggressiveness are tested.
Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author - The percentage of adult males in the population will be postively associated with high homicide rates (329)Bolton, Ralph - The ecology of East African homicide, 1973 - 2 Variables
Using homicide rates as an indicator, this article examines the ecological factors that might be functioning as stressors in the environment of thirty-four East African tribes. A series of hypotheses dealing with the relationships between these stressors and tribal levels of aggressiveness are tested.
Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author - The salience of color categories in folk tales is positively associated with the evolutionary sequence proposed by Berlin and Kay (1969) (233).Bolton, Ralph - Color terms in folk tales: a cross-cultural study, 1979 - 2 Variables
Using a sample derived from the available folk tale literature, researchers test whether the salience of color terms in folk tales follow the evolutionary sequence put forth by Berlin and Kay (1969). Results support the hypothesis.
Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author - The level of sexual jealousy will be positively associated with "social structures or cultural customs that (a) require pair-bonding for economic survival, companionship, and recognition of the individual as a competent adult member of the society; (b) stress the need for personal descendants; (c) emphasize private ownership of property; and (d) restrict nonmarital and extramarital sexual intercourse" (54).Hupka, Ralph B. - The cultural contribution to jealousy: cross-cultural aggression in sexual j..., 1990 - 5 Variables
This article examines the relationship between social structures and sexual jealousy. Results suggest that social structures that emphasize the importance of pair-bonding, progeny, personal property, and exclusive marital sex relations are associated with sexual jealousy in males.
Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author - Economic complexity is positively associated with monotheism (859)Underhill, Ralph - Economic and political antecedents of monotheism: a cross-cultural study, 1975 - 2 Variables
Examines the cross-cultural correlates of belief in a high god or supreme creator. The results are compared to and found to be inconsistent with the theoretical perspectives of Swanson (1960) and Durkheim (1912).
Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author - Political complexity is positively associated with monotheism (859)Underhill, Ralph - Economic and political antecedents of monotheism: a cross-cultural study, 1975 - 2 Variables
Examines the cross-cultural correlates of belief in a high god or supreme creator. The results are compared to and found to be inconsistent with the theoretical perspectives of Swanson (1960) and Durkheim (1912).
Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author - Polygyny will be positively associated with higher socialization for aggression (324)de Munck, Victor C. - Wife-husband intimacy and female status in cross-cultural perspective, 2007 - 2 Variables
This article examines predictors of intimacy between husbands and wives. Emphasis is on equality of spouses. A causal model is presented.
Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author - Equality of spouses should be positively associated with husband-wife intimacy (308).de Munck, Victor C. - Wife-husband intimacy and female status in cross-cultural perspective, 2007 - 2 Variables
This article examines predictors of intimacy between husbands and wives. Emphasis is on equality of spouses. A causal model is presented.
Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author - High female status will be positively associated with husband-wife intimacy (309)de Munck, Victor C. - Wife-husband intimacy and female status in cross-cultural perspective, 2007 - 2 Variables
This article examines predictors of intimacy between husbands and wives. Emphasis is on equality of spouses. A causal model is presented.
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