A study was conducted to explore the hypothesis that attributional styles are related to culture and domain in naturally occurring settings. Attributions made in two domains (sports articles and editorials) of newspapers published in two culturally distinct countries (Hong Kong and the U.S.) were compared. Results revealed that attributions were less dispositional in the East than in the West and that this cultural bias was weaker in editorials than in sports articles. These results suggest that the higher levels of complexity, accountability, and uncertainty in editorials raise the cognitive effort expended to make attributions, which, in turn, attenuates their extremity. The implications of these results for the mixed model of social inference are examined.