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Harmful Healing: Iatrogenic Fragility in Psychological Safety Interventions

2026-01-06

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<p>Trigger warnings, content warnings, and related psychological safety interventions have proliferated across educational, digital, and clinicalenvironments with the explicit goal of protecting vulnerable individuals from emotional harm. Meta-analytic evidence demonstrates theseinterventions fail to reduce distress upon content exposure while reliably increasing anticipatory anxiety beforehand. This paper propose...

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Literature Corpus work: c904c7c6-fcfd-5eeb-92fd-6be4f2308aef
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/yp85j_v1

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