A university in the United Kingdom placed over 200 trigger warnings on William Shakespeare readings after students with past trauma and sensory issues requested the warnings, according to Fox News.
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 ...
For the first time, a new study has tested the effectiveness of trigger warnings in real life scenarios, revealing that the vast majority of young adults choose to ignore them. A new Flinders ...
In theory, trigger warnings, also known as content warnings, should save us from seeing something upsetting — whether it’s a plain old gross-out, or some legitimately disturbing footage that can ruin ...
A study published in Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts suggests that content warnings on visual art can ...
So, that’s what might be called my “trigger warning” for my Human Sexual Diversity course, and I explicitly communicate this purposeful design to them on the first day of class (verbally and in the ...