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  • Science Communication

Background:

  • Individuals depend on others' expertise for world understanding.
  • Assessing the quality of explanations is challenging for non-experts.

Purpose of the Study:

  • Investigate why scientific explanations with jargon are perceived as more satisfying by laypeople.
  • Determine the conditions under which jargon inclusion impacts explanation satisfaction and comprehensibility.
  • Identify strategies to mitigate biased judgments of explanations containing jargon.

Main Methods:

  • Conducted 9 experiments with 6,698 participants.
  • Focused on scientific explanations incorporating jargon.
  • Analyzed the impact of jargon on explanation satisfaction and comprehensibility.

Main Results:

  • Jargon increases explanation satisfaction because laypeople assume it fills informational gaps.
  • Despite decreasing comprehensibility, jargon leads to higher perceived quality.
  • Engaging in explanation generation debiases judgments and improves self-assessment calibration.

Conclusions:

  • Laypeople's reliance on jargon as a proxy for completeness can lead to misjudgments of explanation quality.
  • Active engagement, such as generating explanations, can enhance critical evaluation skills for scientific information.