Speakers of Mandarin, Spanish, and Yucatec Maya watched
videos of two actors involved in a causal chain initiated by
one of them. After watching each video, participants divided
10 tokens into piles indicating their assignment of
responsibility for the resulting event. There was a significant
interaction between intentionality and population: causer and
causee intentionality made a significant difference only for
the Spanish and Yucatec participants, but not for the Chinese
participants. This is in line with previous findings suggesting
that internal dispositions play a lesser role in responsibility
attribution in societies in which attention to individual agency
is far more common than attention to group agency.