Caution: Content Warnings Do Not Reduce Distress, Study Shows
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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
    473·
    1 month ago

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

    • OneWomanCreamTeam@sh.itjust.works
      141·
      1 month 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

      • 🇰 🔵 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.netEnglish
        41·
        1 month ago

        I think the followup is even more relevant:

        Instead, warnings appear to heighten the anticipatory anxiety a person may feel prior to viewing sensitive material while making them no less likely to consume that content

    • Kiernian@lemmy.world
      9·
      1 month 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.