Participants were asked to provide a response to the statement, “Please describe why you agreed or disagreed with this claim.” This statement appeared directly under the agreement ratings scale and participants typed their responses in a text box. An experiential reasoning code was used when participants cited the believability of the relationship, offered a personal explanation, or referred to their personal views or beliefs when responding to the articles (1 D experiential response, 0 D non-experiential response). Participants’ responses were also coded when they engaged in scientific reasoning. This included a variety of scientific reasoning strategies, such as examining the methods and procedures, discussing potential internal threats to validity or confounding influences, questions about the sample size and participants, and identifying interpretive errors (1 D scientific response, 0 D non-scientific response). Participants’ responses were not mutually exclusive to one code, since participants could provide both experiential and scientific responses.