The effects of language-related misunderstanding at work

J Fiset, DP Bhave, N Jha - Journal of Management, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Demographic, technological, and global trends have brought the language used at the
workplace to the forefront. A growing body of research reveals that language could result in …

Plain language summaries: A systematic review of theory, guidelines and empirical research

M Stoll, M Kerwer, K Lieb, A Chasiotis - PLoS One, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Plain language summaries (PLSs) have been introduced to communicate research in an
understandable way to a nonexpert audience. Guidelines for writing PLSs have been …

Specialized terminology reduces the number of citations of scientific papers

A Martínez, S Mammola - Proceedings of the Royal …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Words are the building blocks of communicating science. As our understanding of the world
progresses, scientific disciplines naturally enrich their specialized vocabulary (jargon) …

Science communication training in North America: Preparing whom to do what with what effect?

A Dudo, JC Besley, S Yuan - Science Communication, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
This study identifies key characteristics of current science communication training programs
based in North America. We report findings from semistructured interviews conducted with …

Can scientists fill the science journalism void? Online public engagement with science stories authored by scientists

Y Barel-Ben David, ES Garty, A Baram-Tsabari - PloS one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
In many countries the public's main source of information about science and technology is
the mass media. Unfortunately, in recent years traditional journalism has experienced a …

Straight from the scientist's mouth—plain language summaries promote laypeople's comprehension and knowledge acquisition when reading about individual …

M Kerwer, A Chasiotis, J Stricker, A Günther… - Collabra …, 2021 - online.ucpress.edu
Easily comprehensible summaries of scholarly articles that are provided alongside
'ordinary'scientific abstracts, so-called plain language summaries, can be a powerful tool for …

How should we organize science communication trainings to achieve competencies?

BV Lewenstein, A Baram-Tsabari - International Journal of Science …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
To advance science communication training, we use learning theory to build on an earlier
effort to create a comprehensive list of topics for learning science communication. We …

The interplay of jargon, motivation, and fatigue while processing COVID-19 crisis communication over time

HC Shulman, OM Bullock… - Journal of Language and …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Using the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic, this three-wave experiment (N= 1,830)
examined whether a public health crisis motivates people to engage with complicated …

Compensatory conspicuous communication: Low status increases jargon use

ZC Brown, EM Anicich, AD Galinsky - Organizational Behavior and Human …, 2020 - Elsevier
Jargon is commonly used to efficiently communicate and signal group membership. We
propose that jargon use also serves a status compensation function. We first define jargon …

Barriers to expertise in citizen science games

JA Miller, S Cooper - Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Expertise-centric citizen science games (ECCSGs) can be powerful tools for crowdsourcing
scientific knowledge production. However, to be effective these games must train their …