How laypeople evaluate scientific explanations containing jargon

2025/06/12 by Francisco Cruz, Tania Lombrozo · 1 voice · 6 citations
Medicine · Psychology · Social Sciences · #Climate Change Communication and Perception #Empathy and Medical Education #Innovation, Sustainability, Human-Machine Systems #Jargon #Linguistics #Philosophy #Psychology

paper · doi:10.1038/s41562-025-02227-0

published in Nature Human Behaviour 9(10), 2038-2053 (Nature Portfolio)

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Discussions

• This project was a collaboration with @cruzf.bsky.social, who visited my lab at Princeton as an international PhD student. A reminder that science is richer and better when we work together - it makes [bsky, 86 points, 9 comments]