ICPS

2019 International Convention of Psychological Science · 2019

Debiasing Misperceived Trigger Warning Norms

Paris, France · March 2019

Posters · Teaching Institute

  • Jessica Salvatore
    James Madison University
  • Emily Schlosberg
    Sweet Briar College
  • Lauren Jacobson
    Sweet Briar College
  • Jessica Lusby
    Sweet Briar College

Abstract

We documented a social bias relating to the need for trigger warnings in the classroom: students think that other students are in more need than they actually are (an inversion of the typical pluralistic ignorance finding). A social-norms intervention partially reduced this bias and could be considered for classroom use.

Bias

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