Frankenstein has been given a trigger warning that it contains themes of “servitude”. University literature students were ...

WOKE warnings have been slapped on a stage adaptation of Fawlty Towers over foul language and violence. Leeds Heritage ...

The issue of their usage, however, is by no means cut and dry. If anything, the messy and polarizing debate over the appropriateness of trigger warnings has become a key theater in the Kulturkampf of ...

Lawrence of Arabia’s portraits have been given trigger warnings for the cultural appropriation of Arab clothing.

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.

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 ...

In theory, trigger warnings, also known as content warnings, should save us from seeing something upsetting — whether it’s a plain old gross-out, or some legitimately disturbing footage that can ruin ...

Trigger warnings may not help students feel more supported, but safe space messages do. A new study found that being told they were in a ‘safe space’ made students feel more comfortable, trusting, and ...

Nowadays, the term trigger seems to apply to nearly anything that causes discomfort. It appears frequently in conversation and online, likely due to social media popularization of it. Yet “being ...