| Barry III, Herbert | 2003 | Controlling on four types of complexity, marriage payment is positively associated with government levels (126) | UNKNOWN | 6 | |
| Barry III, Herbert | 2003 | Controlling on four types of complexity, external warfare is positively associated with government levels (126) | UNKNOWN | 6 | |
| Barry III, Herbert | 2003 | Controllingon four types of complexity, non-maternal care is positively associated with government levels (126) | UNKNOWN | 6 | |
| Barry III, Herbert | 2003 | Controlling on four types of complexity, schooling is positively associated with government levels (126) | UNKNOWN | 6 | |
| Barry III, Herbert | 2003 | Adolescent obedience is positively associated with government levels (126) | UNKNOWN | 6 | |
| Barry III, Herbert | 2003 | Controlling on four types of complexity, prohibition of premarital sex is positively associated with government levels (126) | UNKNOWN | 6 | |
| Barry III, Herbert | 2003 | Controlling on four types of complexity, multiple residences are positively associated with government levels (126) | UNKNOWN | 6 | |
| Barry III, Herbert | 2003 | Controlling on four types of complexity, large buildings are positively associated with government levles (126) | UNKNOWN | 6 | |
| Barry III, Herbert | 2003 | Controlling on four types of complexity, child indulgence is negatively associated with government levels (126) | UNKNOWN | 6 | |
| Barry III, Herbert | 2003 | Controlling on four types of complexity, corporal punishment is positively associated with government levels (126) | UNKNOWN | 6 | |
| Basu, Sudipta | 2009 | Controlling on agriculture, climate, and region, recordkeeping will be positively associated with other types of impersonal exchange (902) | UNKNOWN | 5 | |
| Basu, Sudipta | 2009 | Controlling on agriculture, climate, and region, recordkeeping will be associated with increased impersonal exchange and specialization in division of labor (902-903) | UNKNOWN | 6 | |
| Gray, J. Patrick | 1981 | Agricultural subsistence will be positively associated with inheritance to the wife's children; Hunter-gather subsistence will be positively associated with inheritance to individuals other than the wife's children (279) | Not Supported | 3 | |
| Winkelman, Michael James | 1990 | The presence of shaman/healers will be positively associated with a major reliance on agriculture as a food source (328). | Supported | 2 | |
| Winkelman, Michael James | 1990 | The presence of priests will be positively associated with political integration and the presence of agriculture (345). | Supported | 3 | |
| Winkelman, Michael James | 1986 | "All of the Shamans were in nomadic or seminomadic societies, which generally has hunting and gathering economies" (36)..."However, all of the Shaman/Healers were found in societies with agriculture, and almost all of the Healers were found in societies with political integration beyond the local level" (36) | Supported | 5 | |
| Winkelman, Michael James | 1986 | "Priest practitioners were present only in sedentary societies with a major reliance upon agriculture or pastoralism"(37) | Supported | 4 | |
| Pryor, Frederic L. | 1986 | Environmental richness will be positively associated with the adoption of agriculture (882-3). | Partially supported | 2 | |
| Pryor, Frederic L. | 1986 | Population density will be positively associated with the adoption of agriculture (883-6). | Supported | 2 | |
| Pryor, Frederic L. | 1986 | Division of labor by gender will be positively associated with the adoption of agriculture (886-7). | Not Supported | 2 | |
| Udy, Stanley H., Jr. | 1959 | "Societies with centralized governments tend to practice settled agriculture. . . . Production organizations are characterized by managerial or separated, rather than corporate, proprietorship" (67) | Supported | 3 | |
| Roberts, John M. | 1976 | There is an association between emphasis on male activity in subsistence and the evil eye belief in agricultural societies (242) | Supported | 3 | |
| Murdock, George Peter | 1937 | ". . . patrilineal institutions [are] associated with the presence of traits indicative of higher civilization, matrilineal institutions with their absence. [Some of these are:] agriculture, [animal] domestication, writing, pottery, weaving, metals, [labor] specialization, money, [social] classes, government [and] priesthood . . ." (467) | Supported | 12 | |
| Driver, Harold E. | 1967 | In factor analysis of Murdock's WES, for the factor called agriculture, variables loading on this are cereal grains dominant, agriculture dominant, agriculture sex division of labor about equal and compact villages and towns (336, 340) | Supported | 4 | |
| Bourguignon, Erika | 1976 | Possession-belief-only will be associated with hunting, gathering, and fishing for 46% or more of subsistence; possession-trance belief will be associated with agriculture and/or animal husbandry (43). | Supported | 6 | |
| Bowden, Edgar | 1969 | "Traits [loading above .5 on] rotated factor Index of Social Development [are]: permanency of residence, group life, agriculture, use of grain for food, constancy of food supply, domesticated animals other than herded, mining and smelting of metals, metals obtained from outside, pottery, weaving, money or other standard medium of exchange, trade, private property in land, power vested in a chief, codified laws, authority of judges, plutocracy, and organized priesthood" (456) | Supported | 19 | |
| Baker, Matthew | 2008 | Societies that practice agriculture will be more technologically advanced, have greater population densities, operate in environments that are richer and more amenable to agriculture, and will be closer to the Fertile Crescent and/or another original hearth of agriculture (267). | Supported | 5 | |
| Botero, Carlos A. | 2014 | Moralizing high gods are most likely to be found in ecologically inhospitable and unpredictable environments, in politically complex societies, in societies near (or linguistically related to) other societies with high gods, and in societies with animal husbandry and/or agriculture. | Supported | 8 | |
| Gershman, Boris | 2015 | In weakly institutionalized traditional societies, the evil eye belief will be associated with modes of production. | Supported | 6 | |
| Balkwell, Carolyn | 1981 | Agricultural subsistence (settled agriculture) will be positively associated with the status of the elderly (425). | Supported | 2 | |
| Pryor, Frederic L. | 1977 | The festive reciprocal exchange of labor is also more likely to be found in agricultural societies (215). | Supported | 2 | |
| Hrnčíř, Václav | 2017 | There will be a relationship between slavery and social complexity | Supported | 13 | |
| Gouldner, Alvin W. | 1962 | Findings: Factor T, "Level of Technology", with its stress on pottery and grain for food is suggestive of neolithic technology. The two heaviest positive loadings (oblimax rotation) were noted above. Other heavy positive loadings are: mining and smelting, prevalence of war, basketry, money, weaving, herding, agriculture, domesticated animals other than herded. Highest negative loadings are: warm climate, legendary heroes, fishing, and patrilocal residence (25) | Supported | 14 | |
| Borinskaya, S. A. | 2015 | The frequency of the APOE e4 allele is lower in populations for which agriculture is typical (401). | Supported | 2 | |
| Rudmin, Floyd Webster | 1995 | Certain characteristics of societies will be significantly correlated in the same direction in both of Murdock's data sets. | Supported for 51 of 146 variables - see note for directions | 55 | |
| Rudmin, Floyd Webster | 1992 | Certain characteristics of societies will be significantly correlated in the same direction with both Simmons' (137) and Murdock's (1967) measures of private property ownership. | Support for 21 of the 87 variables - see note for directions | 25 | |
| Ahedo, Virginia | 2021 | Specific patterns of subsistence strategies exist. | Support claimed | 5 | |
| Ahedo, Virginia | 2021 | There will be an association between specific economic choices and certain ecosystems. | Supported | 4 | |
| Ahedo, Virginia | 2021 | Fishing will play an important role in the development of viable alternatives to cultivation. | Support claimed | 3 | |
| Ji, Ting | 2022 | Adoption of agriculture will be correlated with sex dispersal norms across the Sino-Tibetan phylogeny. | Supported | 2 | |