(COLLEGE FIX) -- A recent study by Harvard University psychologists suggests the very thing academics use to protect their students from possible trauma ... may actually end up harming them.
So-called “trigger warnings,” Benjamin Bellet, Payton Jones, and Richard McNally say, can increase folks’ “perceived emotional vulnerability to trauma, peoples’ belief that trauma survivors are vulnerable,” and the “anxiety to written material perceived as harmful.”
Their findings were published in the Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry.
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