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

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/mastodon

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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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[–] Dkarma 45 points 8 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 8 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 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] M137 1 points 1 month ago

I really doubt that it doesn't make people less likely to consume the content. A lot of the time with NSFL stuff, you either don't expect it or it isn't described well enough to prepare you. I've seen a lot of shit that I would not have watched if there was a warning through the years, shock stuff in comments etc. And I've chosen to not watch stuff that had a warning many times, and often see comments saying they won't watch it either.

[–] Kiernian 10 points 8 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.