New technologies are necessary for energy system transition and meeting climate targets.
However, obstacles to social acceptance, often linked to limited understanding and …

Over 30,000 field experiments with The Washington Post and Upworthy showed that readers
prefer simpler headlines (eg, more common words and more readable writing) over more …

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 …

Despite its importance for the sustainability of democratic governance, policy complexity is
still an understudied phenomenon. What makes policies complex? Why are some policies …

Guided by feelings-as-information theory, this experiment (N= 643), based in the United
States, tested whether the use of jargon and infographics within messages designed to …

A 2 (jargon vs. no jargon)× 3 (motive: control vs. accuracy vs. impression) between-subjects
experiment examined the impact of jargon and processing motive in correcting climate …

Given the politicization of European integration, effective public communication by the
European Union (EU) has gained importance. Especially for rather detached supranational …

Students with high reading proficiency typically achieve better results in science
assessments, indicating the importance of reading proficiency. Since the process of reading …

A plethora of accumulating crises, and the public frustration with how they were tackled,
have provided fertile ground for growing public scepticism towards the European Union …

The complexity of public policies has repeatedly been identified as a key challenge for
modern democracies. Yet, we know only very little about the origins of this complexity …