Trigger warning: Empirical evidence ahead

Triggering warnings inform people of the pain that may be caused by written, audiovisual or other materials and are initially used to meet the needs of patients with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) It will be. Since its inception, warning alerts have been more widely used in modern culture, causing intense debate in the academic community and other areas. Some think that giving authority to vulnerable groups by allowing them to create or avoid psychologically uneasy content, and such warnings weaken resistance to stress and increase vulnerability to psychopathology Some people think there is. Simultaneously restrict academic freedom. The purpose of our experiment is to investigate the psychological impact of issuing a warning.

Assign to randomly receive warnings (n = 133) or not (n = 137) to online participants randomly before reading various sentences that may be confusing.

Participants who caused the warning group considered themselves and the average person more emotionally weak if they suffer from trauma. Participants who received the warning reported great anxiety when reading potential potentially painful places but only if they thought that the speech could be harmful. Warnings do not affect participant's implicit self-identification, as information is fragile and subsequent anxiety reactions may not be so painful.

The sample contains only participants who have not suffered from trauma, and the observed effects may differ for those who were traumatized

Issuing a warning may inadvertently impair certain aspects of emotional recovery. Further study on the universality of our findings, especially the history of the university population and trauma

A study by Benjamin W. Bellett, Payton J. Jones, and Richard J. McNally, "Trigger Warning: Future Empirical Evidence" was published online from the Journal of Behavioral Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry. In this study, the authors provided documents that could interfere with the research participants. One group received a warning of the trigger, and the other group did not. People who received a warning are more likely to think that there is a possibility that these substances may cause trauma to themselves or other people, not the person who received the warning.

Trigger warnings usually begin with an alert phrase (such as "trigger warning", "content warning", or simply "warning") and include highlighted (usually bold) text that broadly describes the frustrating nature of the content Take the form of. Since the content of the actual trigger is lower than the warning or hidden in some way, we ask the reader to click. There is no consensus on the "best" way to trigger an alert, so you can accurately describe the potential trigger without becoming a trigger itself. The phrase "triggering a warning" itself may trigger some trauma survivors. People can trigger with a warning that contains too much details. Warnings that use very common words such as "Graphic description of warning violence" or "Content warning: confused meal" triggers the reader rather than a warning containing specific details of the triggered content It is unlikely

What is a trigger warning? Issuing a warning is a small proposal placed before people find very embarrassing things appear. Before we publish some graphic, unpleasant, or other triggering material a few weeks ago when discussing painful content, or before announcing slides, we sometimes put them in a syllabus. The term "trigger" refers to a general experience in patients with trauma-triggered references, post trauma stress disorder, words that are reminiscent of trauma are experienced, people or things flash back to people, physical / Make you experience mental distress. Or panic

Hello, University of Chicago: I am a scholar. I am a survivor. I use trigger warnings in my class. The reason