The cultural morphospace of ritual form: examining modes of religiosity cross-culturally

Emotional arousal in ritual will be negatively associated with group size, group hierarchy, and reliance on agriculture (52, 55).

Group size and agriculture are negatively associated with dysphoric but not euphoric arousal, and group hierarchy is not significant.

Test
Test Name	Support	Significance	Coefficient	Tail
Spearman’s rank-order correlation	Partially supported	`UNKNOWN`	`UNKNOWN`	`UNKNOWN`

Variables
Variable Name	Variable Type	OCM Term(s)
Agricultural Intensity	Independent	Tillage
Emotional Arousal	Dependent	Ritual
Group Hierarchy	Independent	Community Structure, Territorial Hierarchy
Group Size	Independent	Community Structure

Main Author	Published Year	Hypothesis	Supported	Variables Tested
Atkinson, Quentin D.	2011	Ritual frequency will be negatively associated with dysphoric and euphoric emotional arousal (52).	Partially supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Atkinson, Quentin D.	2011	Major world religions will have higher frequency and lower arousal than small-scale traditions (52).	Supported	3	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Betzig, Laura L.	1982	As groups increase in size and hierarchical complexity, individuals in power will exploit their positions to resolve conflicts of interest within the group asymmetrically (210).	Supported	3	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Low, Bobbi S.	1992	Women's overt political power will be associated with group size, mobility, sex ratio, marriage system, male absence, ability to participate with men, female contribution to subsistence, level of political sovereignty, political organization hierarchy, and geographic region (70).	Not Supported	10	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Roes, Frans L.	2014	Active high gods will be more likely in societies with patrilocal marital residence, patrilineal descent, and transfer of wife to husband’s group after marriage (321). This will be true when individually controlling for society size (jurisdictional hierarchy), stratification, region, and religion.	Not Supported	9	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author