Study Trigger warnings do little to reduce people's distress, research shows

[MyPTSD]

Trigger warnings that alert people to potentially sensitive content are increasingly popular, especially on college campuses, but research suggests that they have minimal impact on how people actually respond to content.

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[somerandomguy]

Color me shocked.

 

[Nessa7]

Just in case anyone else decides to go looking for the article, it's not in the most recent volume of the journal. I'm guessing it is going to be in the next one. It's one of those OnlineFirst ones.

 

[Friday]

@Nessa7 It showed up just fine for me

Journal Reference:

1. Mevagh Sanson, Deryn Strange, Maryanne Garry. Trigger Warnings Are Trivially Helpful at Reducing Negative Affect, Intrusive Thoughts, and Avoidance. Clinical Psychological Science, 2019; 216770261982701 DOI: 10.1177/2167702619827018

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[Nessa7]

If you have access to the individual articles, you can get to it that way. If you have access to them once they're in a volume, you gotta wait.