Suicide

Associated Documents (15)

Main AuthorPublished YearTitle
Allen, Martin G.A cross-cultural study of aggression and crime
Palmer, StuartAggression in fifty-eight non-literate societies: an exploratory analysis
Naroll, RaoulCultural determinants and the concept of the sick society
Robbins, Michael C. Climate and behavior: a biocultural study
Divale, William TulioModernization as changes in cultural complexity: new cross-cultural measurements
Masumura, Wilfred T.Social integration and suicide: a test of durkheim's theory
Smith, David HortonSome social and psychological factors related to suicide in primitive societies: a cross-cultura...
Krauss, Herbert H.Cross-cultural study of the thwarting disorientation theory of suicide
Lester, DavidSuicide and mutilation behaviors in non-literate societies
Lester, DavidThe relation between discipline experiences and the expression of aggression
Krauss, Herbert H.Social development and suicide
Lester, DavidThe incidence of suicide and the fear of the dead in non-literate societies
Naroll, RaoulThwarting disorientation and suicide
Krauss, Herbert H.A cross-cultural study of suicide
Syme, Kristen L.When Saying "Sorry" Isn't Enough: Is Some Suicidal Behavior a Costly Signal of Apology?

Associated Hypotheses (21)

Main AuthorHypothesis
Allen, Martin G."Crime will correlate with productivity, deviance-conformity, mental illness, suicide, or drunkenness-drug addiction" (263)
Allen, Martin G."Directness of aggression is associated with high productivity, high creativity, low deviance-conformity, low incidence of crime, suicide, and mental illness" (263)
Palmer, Stuart"In . . . non-literate societies . . . when some forms of aggression, outward or inward-directed, occur frequently so also do other forms" (63)
Naroll, Raoul"Thwarting disorientation situations tend to cause suicide. . . . [There are] correlations between . . . thwarting disorientation traits and suicide source wordage" (139)
Robbins, Michael C. ". . . higher rates of suicide are found in colder areas" (337)
Divale, William TulioModernization changes in education, government, and trade will be positively associated with cultural complexity, female economic power, pacification, suicide, and individual stress (136, 144-5).
Divale, William TulioModernization changes in behavior will be positively associated with cultural complexity, suicide, and individual stress (136, 144-5).
Masumura, Wilfred T.Rates of suicide will be negatively associated with social integration (253, 260).
Masumura, Wilfred T.Rates of suicide will be negatively associated with elaboration of ceremony and ritual (253, 261).
Masumura, Wilfred T.Rates of suicide will be negatively associated with organized priesthood (253, 262).
Smith, David HortonSuicide will be associated with major economic activity, rules concerning the expression of emotions, and the importance of pride and shame (197-199, 208).
Krauss, Herbert H."More suicides should take place in thwarting disorientation contexts than non-thwarting disorientation contexts" (354)
Lester, David". . . There is no evidence that mutilation behaviors in primitive societies are related to the incidence of suicide in those societies" (802)
Lester, DavidThere will be a "relationship between the incidence or type of suicidal behavior in a society and its disciplinary practices" (734)
Krauss, Herbert H."Suicide frequency frequently varies as a function of social development. . . . Low frequency of suicide is most often associated with low societal development, high rates of suicide occur most frequently in cultunits with a medium degree of complexity" (159, 163)
Lester, David"The prediction was that a high incidence of suicide would be associated with a low fear of the dead" (207)
Naroll, Raoul"Thwarting disorientation situations, in which a victim blames a person for the victim's loss of social ties, tend to cause suicide" (1)
Krauss, Herbert H."The greater the TD [thwarting disorientation] level, the greater the number of suicides in a cultunit" (44)
Krauss, Herbert H."The number of suicide cases . . . should be directly related to the number of TD [thwarting disorientation] situations scored present [in a] cultunit" (44)
Syme, Kristen L.There will be evidence of the Costly Apology Model in most sampled cultures.
Syme, Kristen L.There will continue to be evidence of the Costly Apology Model in most cultures when controlling for "subsistence mode, level of complexity, [and] geographic region." (7)

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  1. suicide