Sending signals: Trigger warnings and safe space notifications.

IF 2.1 3区 心理学 Q2 PSYCHOLOGY, APPLIED
Samuel Pratt, Payton J Jones, Victoria M E Bridgland, Benjamin W Bellet, Richard J McNally
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Abstract

Trigger warnings and safe space notifications are common in higher education. Although researchers have evaluated these practices as mental health tools, little attention has been paid to the interpersonal signals they send. In this experiment conducted in fall 2024, we examined how trigger warnings and safe space notifications shape students' perceptions of instructors and the classroom environment. We randomly assigned 738 American undergraduate students to view videos of instructors delivering a brief lecture on trauma, preceded by the instructor providing a trigger warning, a safe space notification, both, or neither. Participants rated the instructor's epistemic trustworthiness, concern for student well-being, political orientation, and Left-Wing Authoritarianism scale, as well as their own feelings of psychological safety and willingness to discuss controversial topics in the classroom. Analyses using Bayes Factors provided substantial evidence that trigger warnings had no overall impact on students' perceptions. In contrast, safe space notifications increased students' feelings of psychological safety and willingness to discuss controversial topics. Safe spaces also increased perceptions of instructors as caring and trustworthy but signaled that instructors were liberal and left-wing authoritarian, including the subscale measuring support for top-down censorship. Implications for the use of trigger warnings and safe spaces in educational contexts are discussed. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).

发送信号:触发警告和安全空间通知。
触发警告和安全空间通知在高等教育中很常见。尽管研究人员已经将这些练习作为心理健康工具进行了评估,但很少有人关注它们发出的人际信号。在2024年秋季进行的这项实验中,我们研究了触发警告和安全空间通知如何影响学生对教师和课堂环境的看法。我们随机分配了738名美国本科生,让他们观看教师关于创伤的简短讲座的视频,在讲座之前,教师会提供触发警告、安全空间通知,或者两者都提供,或者两者都不提供。参与者对教师的认知可信度、对学生福祉的关注、政治取向、左翼威权主义量表、以及他们自己的心理安全感和在课堂上讨论有争议话题的意愿进行了打分。使用贝叶斯因子的分析提供了大量证据,表明触发警告对学生的认知没有总体影响。相比之下,安全空间通知增加了学生的心理安全感和讨论有争议话题的意愿。安全空间也增加了人们对教师的关怀和值得信赖的看法,但也表明教师是自由派和左翼威权主义者,包括衡量对自上而下审查的支持程度的子量表。讨论了在教育环境中使用触发警告和安全空间的含义。(PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA,版权所有)。
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CiteScore
4.90
自引率
3.80%
发文量
110
期刊介绍: The mission of the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied® is to publish original empirical investigations in experimental psychology that bridge practically oriented problems and psychological theory. The journal also publishes research aimed at developing and testing of models of cognitive processing or behavior in applied situations, including laboratory and field settings. Occasionally, review articles are considered for publication if they contribute significantly to important topics within applied experimental psychology. Areas of interest include applications of perception, attention, memory, decision making, reasoning, information processing, problem solving, learning, and skill acquisition.
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