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- "Stephens' main predictor [of menstrual taboo], the composite score of anxiety, did hold up [replicate]" (105)Young, Frank W. - Menstrual taboos and social rigidity, 1967 - 2 Variables
This study first reviews two explanations of menstrual taboos: taboos as an aspect of social rigidity and a psychogenic interpretation of menstrual taboos. The authors chiefly advocate a sociogenic explanation of menstrual taboos.
Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author - "If menstrual taboos amount to a form of institutionalized discrimination against women, then we should expect to find them in subcommunities where males are dominant and tightly organized" (100)Young, Frank W. - Menstrual taboos and social rigidity, 1967 - 2 Variables
This study first reviews two explanations of menstrual taboos: taboos as an aspect of social rigidity and a psychogenic interpretation of menstrual taboos. The authors chiefly advocate a sociogenic explanation of menstrual taboos.
Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author - "Rigidity and male dominance are associated [with menstrual taboos] to about the same degree, as would be expected" (103)Young, Frank W. - Menstrual taboos and social rigidity, 1967 - 3 Variables
This study first reviews two explanations of menstrual taboos: taboos as an aspect of social rigidity and a psychogenic interpretation of menstrual taboos. The authors chiefly advocate a sociogenic explanation of menstrual taboos.
Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author - "If menstrual taboos reflect castration anxiety, we would expect a positive correlation between scores on this composite predictor of castration anxiety and extensiveness of menstrual taboos" (113)Stephens, William N. - The oedipus complex: cross-cultural evidence, 1962 - 2 Variables
The author attempts to test the "Oedipus-complex" hypothesis--the psychoanalytic idea that under certain conditions (such as the long-post partum sex taboo) males are sexually attracted to their mothers and as a consequence certain fears and anxiety are generaated. The hypothesis is tested at the societal-level using ethnographic data.
Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author - "Stephens reports that the postpartum taboo tends to be bimodally distributed. On the contrary, degree of elaboration of menstrual taboos is associated with increasing length of the postpartum taboo" (104)Young, Frank W. - Menstrual taboos and social rigidity, 1967 - 2 Variables
This study first reviews two explanations of menstrual taboos: taboos as an aspect of social rigidity and a psychogenic interpretation of menstrual taboos. The authors chiefly advocate a sociogenic explanation of menstrual taboos.
Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author - "As male solidarity is more institutionalized, the elaboration of initiation ceremonies increases" (74)Young, Frank W. - Initiation ceremonies: a cross-cultural study of status dramatization, 1965 - 2 Variables
This book investigates a broad hypothesis linking social solidarity and initiation ceremonies. The author proposes that “the degree of solidarity of a given social system determines the degree to which status transitions within it will be dramatized” (1). A variety of operational hypotheses are supported for both male and female initiation ceremonies.
Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author - There are sex differences in aggression in adulthood (64).Rohner, Ronald P. - Sex differences in aggression: phylogenetic and enculturation perspectives, 1976 - 2 Variables
This article presents evidence suggesting that sex differences in aggression are universal, but that the differences are also highly susceptible to experiential modification. Following a “phylogenetic perspective” that emphasizes the interaction of genotype and experience, the author finds that boys are on average more aggressive than girls but adult males as a group are not significantly more aggressive than women.
Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author - There will tend to be lower levels of sex anxiety in societies freely permitting or with weak punishments for premarital sexual relations (390, 398).Textor, Robert B. - A Cross-Cultural Summary: Premarital Sexual Relations, 1967 - 2 Variables
Textor summarizes cross-cultural findings on premarital sexual relations pertaining to cultural, environmental, psychological, and social phenomena.
Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author - Boys tend to be more aggressive than girls (61-2, 64).Rohner, Ronald P. - Sex differences in aggression: phylogenetic and enculturation perspectives, 1976 - 2 Variables
This article presents evidence suggesting that sex differences in aggression are universal, but that the differences are also highly susceptible to experiential modification. Following a “phylogenetic perspective” that emphasizes the interaction of genotype and experience, the author finds that boys are on average more aggressive than girls but adult males as a group are not significantly more aggressive than women.
Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author - “Within any given society the level of aggression among the members of one sex tends to vary directly with the level of aggression other members of the other” (61, 64).Rohner, Ronald P. - Sex differences in aggression: phylogenetic and enculturation perspectives, 1976 - 2 Variables
This article presents evidence suggesting that sex differences in aggression are universal, but that the differences are also highly susceptible to experiential modification. Following a “phylogenetic perspective” that emphasizes the interaction of genotype and experience, the author finds that boys are on average more aggressive than girls but adult males as a group are not significantly more aggressive than women.
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