Caution: Content Warnings Do Not Reduce Distress, Study Shows (2023)(psychologicalscience.org)

Caution: Content Warnings Do Not Reduce Distress, Study Shows (2023)

https://www.psychologicalscience.org/news/2023-october-content-warnings-distress.html

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They're not supposed to reduce distress, they're supposed to get people to click away

Edit:

> Instead, warnings appear to heighten the anticipatory anxiety a person may feel prior to viewing sensitive material while making them no less likely to consume that content,

I stand corrected