Does Art Bring Us Together? An Empirical Approach to the Evolutionary Aesthetics of Ellen Dissanayake

Frequency of violent conflict between groups within local communities will be negatively correlated with ritual art.

Test
Test Name	Support	Significance	Coefficient	Tail
Spearman's rho	Supported	p<0.05	-0.349	Two-tailed

Variables
Variable Name	Variable Type	OCM Term(s)
Ritual Art	Independent	Music, Dance, Ritual, Organized Ceremonial
Frequency of violent conflict between groups within local communities	Dependent	Ingroup Antagonisms

Main Author	Published Year	Hypothesis	Supported	Variables Tested
Fullerton, Brady	2020	Frequency of internal warfare (between local communities within a unit of maximal political authority) will be negatively correlated with ritual art.	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Fullerton, Brady	2020	Lower conflict between communities of the same society will be correlated with more ritual art.	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Fullerton, Brady	2020	Frequency of internal warfare involving non-territorially organized groups with a unit of maximal political authority will be positively correlated with ritual art.	Not supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Fullerton, Brady	2020	Lower frequency of internal war will be correlated with more ritual art.	Not supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Kang, Gay Elizabeth	1979	Societies that practice local group exogamy will have peace within the local groups (90).	Not Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author