Give two examples of cultural variation in reasoning about causal events.

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Westerners who tend to explain events using a single or few direct causes. In contrast, people from East Asian cultures tend to explain events as caused by multiple factors that interact, creating a ripple effect whereby one event holds many complex consequences that may not be easily anticipated. Other research has shown that multi-factor interactive view of causality is present among people of many nonwestern cultural communities. For example, Indigenous Itza' Maya and Native-American Menominee people tend to emphasize complex interactions across many entities, such as animal and spiritual entities, contexts, such as habitats, and time frames.