A recent psychology study found that while trigger warnings don't reduce emotional distress, their wording drastically changes our cognitive response. Vague warnings leave the brain guessing, ...
The issue of their usage, however, is by no means cut and dry. If anything, the messy and polarizing debate over the appropriateness of trigger warnings has become a key theater in the Kulturkampf of ...
Trigger warnings are meant to help people emotionally prepare for or avoid potentially upsetting material. But new evidence from a week-long study of young adults suggests they often do neither.