Writing for the New Republic in 2014, not long after Slate magazine had declared 2013 "The Year of the Trigger Warning," Jenny Jarvie helped bring news of their rise into public consciousness. She ...

Trigger warnings are meant to help people emotionally prepare for or avoid potentially upsetting material. But new evidence from a week-long study of young adults suggests they often do neither.

Recently, there has been a growing push for the use of "trigger warnings" on college campuses. A trigger warning is a brief opening statement that lecture (or reading) content may provoke an adverse ...

Trigger warnings flagging potentially distressing content may encourage people to view the post, a study has revealed. Researchers in Australia found that young people come across trigger warnings on ...

Biology students are being warned that they might see upsetting images of the human body in trigger warnings introduced by a university. Life sciences degree students at the University of Reading were ...

Trigger warning: This class may expose you to opinions and ideas that you may find offensive or believe may offend someone else. Sounds pretty ridiculous, right? But students at several institutions ...