population density in cross‐cultural perspective
- 1 November 1979
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in American Ethnologist
- Vol. 6 (4) , 742-749
- https://doi.org/10.1525/ae.1979.6.4.02a00080
Abstract
This paper reports the results of a holocultural study of the relationship between population density and human behavior. The findings indicate that high levels of density are not a cause of stress in humans. Crowding rarely leads to pathological behavior or the mistreatment of children in a sample of fifty nonliterate societies. Specific statistical tests are used to rule out the possibility that the results of this study can be attributed to methodological shortcomings.Keywords
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