Hypotheses
- Societies where the strength of menstrual taboos is high will tend to have female initiation rites (382, 396).Textor, Robert B.  - A Cross-Cultural Summary: Female Initiation Rites, 1967 - 2 VariablesTextor summarizes cross-cultural findings of female initiation rites pertaining to cultural, environmental, social, and psychological phenomena. Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author
- Societies with full-time entrepreneurs will tend to separate females at menarche (380, 136).Textor, Robert B.  - A Cross-Cultural Summary: Female Initiation Rites, 1967 - 2 VariablesTextor summarizes cross-cultural findings of female initiation rites pertaining to cultural, environmental, social, and psychological phenomena. Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author
- Societies where mother-son sleeping arrangements last longer than one year will tend to have female initiation rites (382, 316).Textor, Robert B.  - A Cross-Cultural Summary: Female Initiation Rites, 1967 - 2 VariablesTextor summarizes cross-cultural findings of female initiation rites pertaining to cultural, environmental, social, and psychological phenomena. Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author
- Societies where the kin group is exclusively patrilineal will tend to have painful female initiation rites (383, 186).Textor, Robert B.  - A Cross-Cultural Summary: Female Initiation Rites, 1967 - 2 VariablesTextor summarizes cross-cultural findings of female initiation rites pertaining to cultural, environmental, social, and psychological phenomena. Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author
- Societies practicing female initiation rites will have medium or high rates of gender separation during adolescence (368, 382).Textor, Robert B.  - A Cross-Cultural Summary: Adolescence Gender Separation, 1967 - 2 VariablesTextor summarizes cross-cultural findings on adolescence gender separation pertaining to cultural, environmental, psychological, and social phenomena. Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author
- In societies with high rates of female subsistence contribution, male initiation rites will be prevalent (372, 127).Textor, Robert B.  - A Cross-Cultural Summary: Male Initiation Rites, 1967 - 2 VariablesTextor summarizes cross-cultural male initiation rites findings pertaining to cultural, environmental, psychological, and social phenomena. Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author
- In societies where sorcery is important, male initiation rites at puberty will be prevalent (373, 445).Textor, Robert B.  - A Cross-Cultural Summary: Male Initiation Rites, 1967 - 2 VariablesTextor summarizes cross-cultural male initiation rites findings pertaining to cultural, environmental, psychological, and social phenomena. Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author
- Societies outside of North America will tend to have painful female initiation rites (383. 8).Textor, Robert B.  - A Cross-Cultural Summary: Female Initiation Rites, 1967 - 2 VariablesTextor summarizes cross-cultural findings of female initiation rites pertaining to cultural, environmental, social, and psychological phenomena. Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author
- In societies that practice female initiation rites, marriages will be polygynous and preferentially sororal (244, 382).Textor, Robert B. - A Cross-Cultural Summary: Polygyny, 1967 - 2 VariablesTextor summarizes cross-cultural findings on polygyny pertaining to cultural, environmental, psychological, and social phenomena. Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author
- In societies permitting homosexual activity, male initiation  rites will be prevalent (372, 400).Textor, Robert B.  - A Cross-Cultural Summary: Male Initiation Rites, 1967 - 2 VariablesTextor summarizes cross-cultural male initiation rites findings pertaining to cultural, environmental, psychological, and social phenomena. Related Hypotheses Cite More By Author