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@terajumbodia. There is no evidence that suggests trigger warnings to be helpful, and may in some cases even be harmful. Here's an excerpt from the abstract of a paper from the department of psychology at the University of Harvard:
And another one from the psychology department at the University of Massachusetts for good measure:
Anyway, thanks for translating
Bellet, B.W., Jones, P.J. & McNally, R.J. (2020). Helping or Harming? The Effect of Trigger Warnings on Individuals with Trauma Histories. Cambridge, MA: Department of Psychology, Harvard University. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/2167702620921341We found no evidence that trigger warnings were helpful for trauma survivors, for participants who self-reported a posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) diagnosis, or for participants who qualified for probable PTSD, even when survivors’ trauma matched the passages’ content. We found substantial evidence that trigger warnings countertherapeutically reinforce survivors’ view of their trauma as central to their identity. Regarding replication hypotheses, the evidence was either ambiguous or substantially favored the hypothesis that trigger warnings have no effect.
And another one from the psychology department at the University of Massachusetts for good measure:
Roemer, L., Salters-Pedneault, K. & Tull, M.T. (2004). "The role of avoidance of emotional material in the anxiety disorders" in Applied and Preventive Psychology. Volume 11, Pp. 95-114. Boston, MA: Pyschology Department, University of Massachusetts. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appsy.2004.09.001Research on the suppression and avoidance of emotional material suggests that emotional avoidance and thought suppression may not only hinder the learning process and maintain anxious responding, but may also (a) paradoxically heighten anxious responding to threatening cues and (b) interfere with emotion functionality, thereby further impeding adaptive responding.
Anyway, thanks for translating