The authors hypothesizes that fear of the dead will be correlated with an emphasis on achievement and affiliation in folk tales. Results do not support this hypothesis.

This study tests for an association between suicide rates and cultural fear of the dead. Tests do not support a significant relationship.

This study tests for an association between displays of aggression and socialization techniques in preindustrial societies. Analysis suggests there is no relationship between discipline techniques and homicidal or suicidal behavior.

This study investigates possible relationships between the need for achievement and power (as measured in folktales) with rates of suicide and homicide in preindustrial societies. Analysis suggests that homicide is not associated with either the need for achievement or power, but suicide is positively associated with the need for power.

This descriptive study uses eHRAF to examine the use of textiles and animal skins in various funerary rituals across roughly 50 societies around the world throughout the last two centuries. The author suggests that throughout the sample, funerary textile practices (including the choice of material, the style of garment, and whether or not the body of the deceased is clothed) accurately reflect the societies’ eschatological beliefs and symbolic framework regarding death and the afterlife. This finding has implications for the interpretation of funerary textile materials in archaeological contexts, which the author argues can effectively be used to infer information about a past society’s ideological, religious and social dimensions when compared to the ethnographic record. Hypotheses were not explicitly tested.

Using results from a proprietary survey of 2963 individuals in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, China, India, Kenya, Nigeria, Peru, South Africa and Singapore, this study tests for correlation between feelings of ethnocentrism, and fear of COVID-19. The authors focus specifically on populations in the Global South, since structural global inequality meant that those populations tended to be most impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic (in terms of mortality, morbidity, loss of infrastructure, etc.). The study finds that throughout all the populations surveyed, stronger feelings of ethnocentrism significantly predicted greater fear of COVID-19.

This book investigates individual and group responses to death and the problems that death can create in a society. Several hypotheses regarding grief and mourning, as well as their variation with other societal variables, are supported with cross-cultural tests.

This paper investigates the relationship between discipline experiences in preindustrial societies and aggressive behavior at the societal level. No associations are found between discipline experiences and suicide, murder, aggression resulting from alcohol consumption, or aggression expressed in war-making.

This paper tests for a relationship between practices of mutilation and self-torture and the incidence of suicidal behavior in preindustrial, nonliterate societies. Several hypotheses are tested but none supported.

The purpose of this book is to introduce a conceptual and methodological perspective called the "universalist approach," and to use this approach in exploring the pancultural antecedents and affects of parental acceptance-rejection of children,