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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] 45 points 5 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months 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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 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.