A Cross-Cultural Summary: Polygyny

In societies where a nurturing agent inflicts pain on an infant, polygynous marriage will be common or occasional (250, 324).

Test
Test Name	Support	Significance	Coefficient	Tail
Fisher's Exact test	Supported	p = .041	Phi = .339	Two-tailed

Variables
Variable Name	Variable Type	OCM Term(s)
Polygynous Marriage	Association	Polygamy
Infant Pain Infliction	Association	Infant Care

Main Author	Published Year	Hypothesis	Supported	Variables Tested
Blum, Richard H.	1969	"When pain inflicted on the infant by the nurturant agent is high, then: [tobacco use is by both sexes]" (162)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Whiting, John W.M.	1965	"[When] we . . . correlated menarcheal age with the Landauer-Whiting measure of infant stress . . . pain and shaping did show a positive association" (226)	Supported	3	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Textor, Robert B.	1967	Societies with high rates of infant pain infliction from nurturing agents will have adolescent pairs or groups present in courtship settings (356, 324).	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Textor, Robert B.	1967	In societies where nurturing agents have high rates of pain infliction towards infants, female status will be inferior or subjected to male status (277, 324).	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Lambert, William W.	1959	"Societies with predominantly aggressive deities and with high pain in the treatment of infants have capricious gods; societies with . . . benevolent deities and with low pain in infant treatment lack capricious gods" (167)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author