Cross-sex patterns of kin behavior

"Tylor advanced the plausible hypothesis that mother-in-law avoidance should be highly correlated with matrilocal residence" (366)

Test
Test Name	Support	Significance	Coefficient	Tail
Comparison of raw scores	Not Supported	`UNKNOWN`	`UNKNOWN`	`UNKNOWN`

Variables
Variable Name	Variable Type	OCM Term(s)
Matrilocal Residence	Independent	Residence
Mother-in-law Avoidance	Dependent	Parents-in-law And Children-in-law

Main Author	Published Year	Hypothesis	Supported	Variables Tested
Witkowski, Stanley	1972	"The residential proximity hypothesis suggests that institutionalized avoidance practices should be more likely to occur when the avoiding parties are living in the same household than when they are just living in the same community." [Mother-in-law/son-in-law avoidance increases with the degree of household co-residence] (249)	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
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
Sweetser, Dorrian Apple	1966	"Residence proved to be unrelated to avoidance [of parents-in-law] by either husband or wife" (313)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Stephens, William N.	1962	"We predicted a positive correlation between duration of the post partum sex taboo and severity of [mother-in-law] avoidance" (132)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author