 In these early studies on intuitions about free will and moral responsibility, the description of determinism focused on the fact that in a deterministic universe, every event is in principle predictable from the past and the laws. In addition, the scenarios involved particular agents in our world doing bad things. Later studies emphasized the causal nature of determinism—that what happens at a given point is completely caused by what happened previously—and stressed that what happens in a deterministic universe is inevitable given the past. Even with this description of determinism, participants still tend to say that a specific concrete individual in such a universe who commits a heinous crime is free and responsible (Nichols &amp; Knobe 2007; Roskies &amp; Nichols 2008). However, when asked a more abstract question about whether it is possible in general for people in such a deterministic universe to be free and responsible, participants tend to say that morally responsibility is not possible in a deterministic universe. This incompatibilist response was also found in a cross cultural sample with participants from India, Hong Kong, Colombia, and the United States (Sarkissian et al. 2010). In addition to the abstract nature of the question, another important element seems to be whether one is considering an alternate deterministic universe or contemplating the possibility that our own universe is deterministic. When led to consider our own universe as deterministic, participants were more likely to say that people would still be morally responsible (Roskies &amp; Nichols 2008).