In developing H2, we argue that jargon increases investment willingness because it increases investors’ perceived product premium. We ask two questions that are intended to proxy for this construct: the extent they feel the company’s technology and products are (1) superior and (2) unique. Both questions are measured on 11-point scales with “−5” labeled “not at all” and “5” labeled “extremely.” The two measures are correlated (Pearson Correlation = 0.57, p < 0.01; Cronbach’s Al-pha = 0.65), and thus we use the average of the two responses as our measure of participants’ perceived product premium (hereafter, premium). To conduct the mediation analysis, we use the Hayes Process Model to run 10,0 0 0 bootstrapped sam-ples with a 90% confidence level, where the presence of jargon (“0” for the no jargon condition and “1” for the rest ofthe three jargon-present conditions) as the independent variable, premium as the mediator, and investment willingness asthe dependent variable. Our mediation model and its results are presented in Table 5 and graphically represented in Fig. 2 ,Panel B.