Olivia Bullock

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The Last Show with David Cooper · Legal Jargon in Court Means More Guilty Verdicts · 25 Mar 2026 podcast

And what they also said was they were less confident that they could be a good juror in the future.

So they were less more likely to say, like, I would not be cut out for jury duty.

And yeah, as you alluded to, they walked away saying that their overall perception of the trust, their trust and integrity of the U.S.

judicial system was lessened in their eyes.

So we have like ripple effects happening where people are making a biased decision.

They don't feel good about it.

They don't feel good about their ability to participate in the system on an ongoing basis.

And they don't even feel good about the system itself.

Right.

It's sort of tough, right?

On the one hand, if the goal is impartiality and fairness, then using legal jargon really undermines that goal because people do have this bias of thinking that this is not been a good experience for me and I'm going to blame it on somebody who's in front of me.

So unfortunately, yeah, jargon could be used strategically in those cases to produce a desirable effect, but that's one that might not ultimately be a fair effect.

Yeah.

And we see the negative effects of jargon are really pervasive.

So as I mentioned, I often study them in health and science contexts where you can see that, for example, in patient provider communication, the use of jargon can lead patients to walk away from their medical encounters feeling bad about it, feeling confused.

feeling like they didn't have somebody on their team.

In science contexts, using jargon to talk about science topics like self-driving cars or surgical robots makes people feel like those new science technologies are riskier just by the way that the information about them is presented.

I did a recent study about jargon in the workplace because we're all guilty of using things like synergy and bandwidth.

Absolutely.

But what I found in that study is that the use of jargon in the workplace made people feel like they couldn't do their jobs well and that they were less likely to ask follow-up questions.

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