The term trigger warning was coined in the late 1990s on feminist Internet message boards, where it cautioned readers about graphic depictions of crimes, typically rape. The idea was to help ...

Trigger warnings may be defined as “alerts about upcoming content that may contain themes related to past negative experiences.” The rationale for using such alerts emerged from the PTSD literature, ...

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 ...

In recent years, trigger warnings have become an increasingly integral part of much of the media that audiences interact with on a daily basis. Social media content, podcasts, and television episodes ...

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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 ...