We've all heard of "trigger warnings."

These are statements that warn people about content that might upset them. They are especially abundant on college campuses.

In fact, NPR found in 2016 that nearly half of all professors had used trigger warnings in class and usually of their own accord, not in response to student request.

Well, it turns out…

…they don't actually accomplish anything.

A study released this month by three Harvard psychologists could not find any reason to use them.

Thus:

"Most empirical studies on trigger warnings indicate that they are either functionally inert or cause small adverse side effects…. We found substantial evidence that trigger warnings countertherapeutically reinforce survivors' view of their trauma as central to their identity."

Then, toward the end:

"Trigger warnings are not helpful for trauma survivors. It is less clear whether trigger warnings are explicitly harmful. However, such knowledge is unnecessary to adjudicate whether to use trigger warnings — because trigger warnings are consistently unhelpful, there is no evidence-based reason to use them."

Therefore:

No need to give you a trigger warning about the 10-megaton truth bomb that's about to hit you here:

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