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13 hours ago · However, adding trigger warnings to course content does not lower anxiety, a recent meta-analysis of studies worldwide found. Warnings can even raise anxiety by activating a fear-loaded, anticipatory “brace yourself!” feeling and removing an opportunity to build resilience. Avoidance of distressing stimuli is a central symptom of anxiety ...
Oct 1, 2024 · The warning gives the opportunity for the individual to make the decision on experiencing the trigger, instead of it crawling up on them as an unpleasant surprise, which most likely was the case at the onset of their trauma.
3 days ago · Warning someone of potential distress is a benevolent notion, but the research is clear: trigger warnings do not actually reduce distress. And, in a cruel kind of irony, they can actually cause it.
Oct 5, 2024 · Trigger warnings, also known as content warnings, are disclaimers placed at the start of books, movies and other forms of media to alert the audience of potentially distressing material.
2 days ago · A Christian organisation has criticised a "trigger warning" which the University of Nottingham has put on famous medieval works in English Literature such as Chaucer, William Langland, John Gower, and Thomas Hoccleve. A Freedom of Information request made by the Mail on Sunday revealed the warning is placed on a module entitled Chaucer and his Contemporaries.
Sep 26, 2024 · A trigger warning is a type of precautionary disclaimer that may be given at the beginning of a piece of media or informational content, such as a video, story, or lecture. It alerts potential viewers, listeners, or readers that the content in question includes subject matter that is commonly associated with trauma, including:
3 days ago · Frankie Vetch. 13 October 2024 1:25pm BST. Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales has been hit with a trigger warning by a leading university over “expressions of Christian faith”, it has ...
