{"pk":26846,"title":"The role of intentionality in causal attribution is culturally mediated: evidence from\nChinese, Mayan, and Spanish populations","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Speakers of Mandarin, Spanish, and Yucatec Maya watched\nvideos of two actors involved in a causal chain initiated by\none of them. After watching each video, participants divided\n10 tokens into piles indicating their assignment of\nresponsibility for the resulting event. There was a significant\ninteraction between intentionality and population: causer and\ncausee intentionality made a significant difference only for\nthe Spanish and Yucatec participants, but not for the Chinese\nparticipants. This is in line with previous findings suggesting\nthat internal dispositions play a lesser role in responsibility\nattribution in societies in which attention to individual agency\nis far more common than attention to group agency.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"causality; agency; responsibility; intentionality;\ncultural mediation; linguistics; social psychology"}],"section":"Talks: Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4z83s49r","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Stephanie","middle_name":"","last_name":"Evers","name_suffix":"","institution":"University at Buffalo","department":""},{"first_name":"Erika","middle_name":"","last_name":"Bellingham","name_suffix":"","institution":"University at Buffalo","department":""},{"first_name":"Katharine","middle_name":"","last_name":"Donelson","name_suffix":"","institution":"University at Buffalo","department":""},{"first_name":"Jing","middle_name":"","last_name":"Du","name_suffix":"","institution":"Beihang University","department":""},{"first_name":"José","middle_name":"Antonio Jódar","last_name":"Sánchez","name_suffix":"","institution":"University at Buffalo","department":""},{"first_name":"Fuyin","middle_name":"","last_name":"Li","name_suffix":"","institution":"Beihang University","department":""},{"first_name":"Jürgen","middle_name":"","last_name":"Bohnemeyer","name_suffix":"","institution":"University at Buffalo","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2017-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/26846/galley/16482/download/"}]}