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  1. ". . . higher rates of suicide are found in colder areas" (337)Robbins, Michael C. - Climate and behavior: a biocultural study, 1972 - 2 Variables

    This study proposes ways in which the environment may affect behavioral and psychocultural processes. Results provide moderate support for a relationship between climate and emotional expressiveness.

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  2. ". . . more societies in warm climates are above the median in emotional expressiveness than societies in cold climates" (337)Robbins, Michael C. - Climate and behavior: a biocultural study, 1972 - 2 Variables

    This study proposes ways in which the environment may affect behavioral and psychocultural processes. Results provide moderate support for a relationship between climate and emotional expressiveness.

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  3. "Most of the societies in warm climates have relatively permissive sex codes for females, while the opposite holds true for societies in cold climates. . ." (337)Robbins, Michael C. - Climate and behavior: a biocultural study, 1972 - 2 Variables

    This study proposes ways in which the environment may affect behavioral and psychocultural processes. Results provide moderate support for a relationship between climate and emotional expressiveness.

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  4. ". . . beliefs in [high gods concerned with moral behavior] are also found significantly more in societies with colder climates" (339)Robbins, Michael C. - Climate and behavior: a biocultural study, 1972 - 2 Variables

    This study proposes ways in which the environment may affect behavioral and psychocultural processes. Results provide moderate support for a relationship between climate and emotional expressiveness.

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  5. ". . . in societies in warm climates there is more indulgence of, and less anxiety induced in the socialization of aggression" (336)Robbins, Michael C. - Climate and behavior: a biocultural study, 1972 - 3 Variables

    This study proposes ways in which the environment may affect behavioral and psychocultural processes. Results provide moderate support for a relationship between climate and emotional expressiveness.

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  6. ". . . humans are more often the agents of aggression than non-humans in the myths from societies in warmer climates" (336)Robbins, Michael C. - Climate and behavior: a biocultural study, 1972 - 2 Variables

    This study proposes ways in which the environment may affect behavioral and psychocultural processes. Results provide moderate support for a relationship between climate and emotional expressiveness.

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  7. Societies in colder climates are more likely to value fatness in women (262).Ember, Carol R. - Valuing thinness or fatness in women: reevaluating the effect of resource sc..., 2005 - 2 Variables

    This study focuses on preferences for thinness or fatness in women cross-culturally. Results contradict previous studies and the hypothesis that preference for fatness in women is predicted by resource scarcity. Alternative explanations for valuation of fatness are explored, including climate and male dominance.

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  8. Languages spoken in warmer climates will have a higher level of sonority than languages spoken in colder climates (28).Fought, John G. - Sonority and climate in a world sample of languages: findings and prospects, 2004 - 2 Variables

    This article examines the relationship between sonority and climate. Results suggest that languages spoken in warmer climates have higher levels of sonority than languages spoken in colder climates.

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  9. Societies with predominantly circular houses will prefer curved lines in art. Societies with predominantly rectangular houses will prefer straight lines in art (745-746).Robbins, Michael C. - Material Culture and Cognition, 1966 - 2 Variables

    This paper tests for a correlation between primary house shapes and preferences for curved or straight lines in art.

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  10. Colder climates will have lower CV scores than warmer climates as Munroe et. al. (1996) suggested (733).Ember, Melvin - Cross-language predictors of consonant-vowel syllables, 2000 - 2 Variables

    This study tests predictors of consonant-vowel prevalence cross-culturally. Authors reevaluate the findings of Munroe et. al. (1996) and also test a new variable—baby-holding—for its relationship to CV score. Results suggest that baby-holding is a significant predictor of CV score.

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