Study: Trigger warnings don’t work, may undermine emotional resilience

___ It’s Official—Trigger Warn­ings Might Actu­al­ly Be Harm­ful (Medi­um): “In the era of col­lege stu­dent sen­si­tiv­i­ties to a seem­ing­ly ever-increas­ing list of pos­si­ble offend­ing mate­r­i­al, the use of so-called “trig­ger warn­ings” has become com­mon­place on uni­ver­si­ty cam­pus­es. These warn­ings are usu­al­ly giv­en at the begin­ning of a class (or at the begin­ning of spe­cif­ic sec­tions of a…

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