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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] 1 points 5 months ago

....aren't the content warnings a form of filter? Are you such a snowflake that you're absurdly triggered by having to click through something?