Olivia Bullock
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first heard Mar 2026
last heard 25 Mar
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And so I ran an experimental study where I exposed people to trial transcripts that either contained legal jargon or had those legal jargon terms spelled out in plain language and asked people how they would vote to decide on those cases.
And what I found was that people who saw the legal jargon condition were much more likely to say that they would vote guilty in those cases.
Yeah, it's a great question.
So one of the things that I think is at play there is, I think you're right, that sometimes when we're uncertain, we can default to the status quo, which in this case would be presuming that somebody is innocent, right?
Because we have this presumption of innocence until proven otherwise.
But what I found in this study was that there's something that happens when our processing of information is disrupted, right?
As humans, we really like to process things at like a surface superficial level.
Imagine when you go to the grocery store, you're kind of on autopilot, right?
You're like going through the aisles, you're picking the things that you know, you might pick up some things that are like cool colors or logos, but you're not really thinking super effortfully about your experience.
And that's because as humans, we're motivated to not be super effortful.
We don't want to waste our resources.
This goes back to our days of evolution.
We're motivated to keep things sort of as light as possible.
So when our processing is disrupted by something like complex language, we look for a reason why that happened.
And we're really sensitive to the feelings that that disruption brings up in us, those feelings of bad or I don't like this.
But we're super, super uncalibrated when it comes to identifying the source.
So what you see happening is that people will look, they might consider blaming themselves like, oh, you know, I've never been good enough.
at math.
They might blame a message sender.
My math teacher really sucked this semester.
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