Cross-sex patterns of kin behavior:  a comment

"As far as the mother-in-law is concerned, matrilineal societies are most formal and bilateral least" (193)

Test
Test Name	Support	Significance	Coefficient	Tail
Chi square	Supported	p<.05	`UNKNOWN`	`UNKNOWN`

Variables
Variable Name	Variable Type	OCM Term(s)
Descent	Independent	Rule Of Descent
Male Ego-- Mother-in-law Behavior	Dependent	Parents-in-law And Children-in-law

Main Author	Published Year	Hypothesis	Supported	Variables Tested
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
Pans, A.E.M.J.	1998	Mother-in-law/son-in-law avoidance will be positively associated with economic interaction between mother-in-law and son-in-law (74, 77).	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Brown, Judith K.	1994	"In those societies in which the contribution of women to subsistence is minimal, and in which post-marital residence is patrilocal, and in which descent is patrilineal, mothers-in-law will confine young wives and monitor their behavior and mothers-in-law will be punitive" (233).	Supported	6	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Cozby, Paul C.	1971	". . . greater privacy would be associated with great [avoidance of] coresident mother-in-law . . ." (278)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Witkowski, Stanley	1972	". . . residential propinquity influences a society's kin avoidance. . . . [There is an] association between mother-in-law/son-in-law avoidance and [their] degree of community coresidence" (243, 247)	Not Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author