A recent psychology study found that while trigger warnings don't reduce emotional distress, their wording drastically changes our cognitive response. Vague warnings leave the brain guessing, ...

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 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 ...