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

submitted 5 months ago by rimu@piefed.social to c/mastodon@lemmy.world

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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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[–] Cryophilia@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It's not reasonable (or, I would argue, even HELPFUL) to have society censor itself to cater to the tiny number of traumatized people.

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I would say it's calloused not to. Moreover, estimates put PTSD rates in America at about 6%. That doesn't sound tiny to me, and that's not even traumatized people. That's people so traumatized they can't handle it in a typical manner and will probably need help to recover, not your run-of-the-mill trauma that we all deal with and move on. Note that even those without PTSD don't need an extra helping of reality courtesy of random strangers on the internet while they're dealing with their trauma.

[–] Cryophilia@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

It's not an extra helping of reality though. It's a normal helping of reality.