The economic origins of the evil eye belief

In weakly institutionalized traditional societies, the evil eye belief will be associated with less governmental and political centralization.

Table 3

Test
Test Name	Support	Significance	Coefficient	Tail
Regression	Supported	`UNKNOWN`	R-squared = .41	`UNKNOWN`

Variables
Variable Name	Variable Type	OCM Term(s)
Evil Eye Belief	`UNKNOWN`	Sorcery, Theory Of Disease
Political Organization	`UNKNOWN`	Accumulation Of Wealth, Territorial Hierarchy
Property Rights Indicator	`UNKNOWN`	Property System, Property In Movables, Accumulation Of Wealth

Main Author	Published Year	Hypothesis	Supported	Variables Tested
Roberts, John M.	1976	". . . societies possessing the evil eye belief tended to be politically autonomous . . ." (248)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Roberts, John M.	1976	". . . there is a positive association between cultural complexity and the evil eye belief . . ." (235)f	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Roberts, John M.	1976	"[There is an] . . . increasing likelihood of the evil eye belief as the size of the domestic animals increases" (243)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Roberts, John M.	1976	". . . the evil-eye-belief scale is . . . associated with . . . a developed judiciary" (250)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Roberts, John M.	1976	". . . the evil eye is associated with . . . communities [larger than 1000]" (245)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author