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TIL trigger warnings are unhelpful in reducing anxiety. Trigger warnings also do not reduce anxiety among people who met a clinical cutoff for PTSD symptoms, reported a diagnosis of PTSD, or reported that the stimuli matched the content of their past trauma.

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