Psychologist goes through a meta-analysis that’s been done about the efficacy of trigger warnings. Seems like they have a bit of an axe to grind about their… horror writing career(?) but thought it was interesting. Thoughts?

  • SocialistDovahkiin [she/her]
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    12 hours ago

    "trigger warnings don't work" is a blatantly impossible statement, their purpose is to prevent people from being exposed to further content that triggers trauma or other mental health issues, the only way they wouldn't work is if people were copy pasting the entire contents of what they're doing a warning about into the warning itself

    • blight [he/him]
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      12 hours ago

      Yeah that’s how I understood the studies, they force you to ignore the warning

      • SocialistDovahkiin [she/her]
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        12 hours ago

        Apparently the study counted people dropping out of the study as choosing not to view the content, and used the what would obviously be low amount of dropouts as "proof" that it doesn't prevent people from viewing it

    • glimmer_twin [he/him]
      hexagon
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      12 hours ago

      The study seems to imply that the trigger warning itself is triggering