For years, they have been the subject of impassioned academic debate: Trigger warnings, do they protect people from distress or encourage fragility? Trigger Warnings May Not Do Much, Early Studies ...

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 ...

In the aftermath of the October 7th attacks in Israel, a team of psychologists and psychiatrists noticed an unsettling pattern among survivors: obsessions and compulsions that hadn't been there before ...

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.

A university located in the UK that put more than 200 trigger warnings on the writings of William Shakespeare, told students to be aware of "blood," "psychological trauma" and "extreme weather," says ...

Trigger warnings increased peoples' perceived emotional vulnerability to trauma, increased peoples' belief that trauma survivors are vulnerable, and increased anxiety to written material perceived as ...

Just last week, Cornell University made the national news for the second time this academic school year after President Martha Pollack rejected a student assembly proposal to mandate trigger warnings ...

Whenever I teach my Human Sexual Diversity module, I always announce on the first day of class that we’ll be covering a wide range of sensitive topics and issues, including some of the darker sides of ...