STUDY: ‘Trigger Warnings’ Are Harmful To College Students | Daily Wire

STUDY: ‘Trigger Warnings’ Are Harmful To College Students | Daily Wire:

“According to the most-basic tenets of psychology, the very idea of helping people with anxiety disorders avoid the things they fear is misguided,” Lukianoff and Haidt wrote, before explaining that someone with a fear of elevators would not be told to avoid them, but rather to gradually engage with them until they were comfortable to use one. “Trigger warnings,” on the other hand, reinforce the fear and compound anxiety.