Caution: Content Warnings Do Not Reduce Distress, Study Shows
www.psychologicalscience.org
Advocates for the use of trigger warnings suggest that they can help people avoid or emotionally prepare people for encountering content related to a past trauma. But research indicates the warnings only heighten anticipatory anxiety.

Advocates for the use of trigger warnings suggest that they can help people avoid or emotionally prepare for encountering content related to a past trauma. But trigger warnings may not fulfill either of these functions, according to an analysis published in Clinical Psychological Science.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/21677026231186625

  • Dkarma@lemmy.world
    443·
    4 months ago

    That’s not what they’re for lmfao. They’re so you don’t watch it at all.

    • OneWomanCreamTeam@sh.itjust.works
      121·
      4 months ago

      First sentence

      Advocates for the use of trigger warnings suggest that they can help people avoid or emotionally prepare for encountering content related to a past trauma. But trigger warnings may not fulfill either of these functions

    • Kiernian@lemmy.world
      10·
      4 months ago

      Thanks, I was sitting here thinking the warnings were so you could AVOID shit you didn’t want to see and the headline had me questioning my perception of reality on this.