Belief in the evil eye in world perspective

There is an association between emphasis on male activity in subsistence and the evil eye belief in agricultural societies (242)

Test
Test Name	Support	Significance	Coefficient	Tail
Goodman and Kruskal's coefficient of association	Supported	p<.01	-.40	Two-tailed

Variables
Variable Name	Variable Type	OCM Term(s)
Agriculture	Combined	Tillage
Evil Eye Belief	Dependent	Sorcery
Male Contribution To Subsistence	Independent	Division Of Labor By Gender

Main Author	Published Year	Hypothesis	Supported	Variables Tested
Roberts, John M.	1976	". . . there is a positive association between cultural complexity and the evil eye belief . . ." (235)f	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Roberts, John M.	1976	"[There is an] . . . increasing likelihood of the evil eye belief as the size of the domestic animals increases" (243)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Roberts, John M.	1976	". . . societies possessing the evil eye belief tended to be politically autonomous . . ." (248)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Roberts, John M.	1976	". . . the evil-eye-belief scale is . . . associated with . . . a developed judiciary" (250)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Roberts, John M.	1976	". . . the evil eye is associated with . . . communities [larger than 1000]" (245)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author