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Content Warnings Do Not Reduce Distress, Study Shows (www.psychologicalscience.org)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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

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[–] [email protected] 101 points 5 months ago (1 children)

If they warn you, and you still watch it, then get distressed, that's on you, man. That's a pretty low bar for accepting personal responsibility.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Yes, but if nobody is paying attention to them, then why bother?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 months ago

I pay attention to them.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

The people who need them, generally are more likely to notice them.

Unfortunately they get overused a lot, as well as poorly used, when they are.