Study Confirms Trigger Warnings Make People More Upset

The purpose of most studies seems to be to confirm the obvious. For example, a Harvard study finds that trigger warnings supposedly intended to protect people from anxiety actually increase anxiety:

The study, “Trigger warning: Empirical evidence ahead,” published last week in the Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, concludes that trigger warnings may not be beneficial.

“Trigger warnings notify people of the distress that written, audiovisual, or other material may evoke, and were initially used to provide for the needs of those with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD),” the study’s abstract explains. “Since their inception, trigger warnings have become more widely applied throughout contemporary culture, sparking intense controversy in academia and beyond.”

They tested the effects of trigger warnings on people asked to read potentially disturbing content.

According to the researchers, participants who were given trigger warnings prior to reading the material had a higher “perceived vulnerability to trauma,” were more likely to believe that trauma survivors are vulnerable, and experienced greater anxiety from the material.

Of course; that is the point of trigger warnings. They are used to label disfavored material as potentially trauma-inducing and therefore offensive. Such material has been primed for censorship. An added benefit of trigger warnings is inflaming the passions of the young moonbats who are told to be triggered by the targeted material.

Trigger warnings are not intended to protect the vulnerable; they are intended to make them more vulnerable, so that their contrived vulnerability can be weaponized. They are a form of information warfare.

On a tip from Lawrence J.

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