As in our previous experiments, we will present participants with either an indirect or a direct speech version of a story. This story is about four agents (two males, two females) that go to a pub together and talk about 12 different topics. Each agent makes a statement with respect to each topic, so the story contains 4x12=48 statements that presented either in indirect or direct speech. Because of the length of the story, we will present the story in four parts. The shortest part contains 234 words, the longest part 349. Reading times for each part will be recorded and used to exclude extremely fast participants (see Analysis). After participants read the whole story, they will be presented with 24 multiple-choice questions (one at a time) regarding the statements that were mentioned (e.g., Who asked whether someone brought an umbrella?). The answer options will always be the names of the four agents. The 24 questions will consist of 2 questions per topic. The order of the topics will be randomised as will be the selection of the 2 (out of four) questions per topic. The answers given by the participants will be recorded and used to calculate a score for the total number of correct answers (correct name) and a score for the total number of correct answers based on gender of the agent. Next, participants will fill out the Narrative Transportation Scale (Green & Brock, 2000) with the last question repeated for all the agents in the story. All questions will be presented at once. The answers will be used to calculate the level of narrative transportation. Finally, we will ask participants to make their best guess as to what the purpose of this task was. In addition we will ask them to indicate whether there were any noise or distractions while performing the experiment and what device they used to perfrom the task. Als, we will ask them to state their gender, age, level of education, native language, and the country where they live. We expect this experiment to take about 15-20 minutes to complete. Participants will receive $1.5 for their participation. As in our first two experiments, participants will be recruited trough Amazon Mechanical Turk (http://www.mturk.com). The experiment will be presented online in the Qualtrics survey research suite (http://www.qualtrics.com). We conducted a power analysis based on the results of Exp 1 to determine our sample size for Exp 2. We needed at least 102 valid participants per condition to reach a power of .80. For this experiment we will use that same criterion (even though we expect the effects to be stronger). We will recruit 250 participants who will be randomly assigned to either the indirect or the direct speech condition. Half the participants will read the original introduction to the protagonists and the other half of the participants will read an introduction in which the names of the two female protagonists are switched with those of the two male protagonists. The data will be analyzed by independent-samples frequentist and Bayesian t-tests.