Victoria M E Bridgland
Biographic Data
| ID | 4889387 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Victoria M E Bridgland |
| GIVEN NAMES | Victoria M E |
| FAMILY NAME | Bridgland |
| SIGNATURE | BRIDGLAND V M E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Flinders University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8865-8426 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The role of decision making in the negative impact of content moderation
Content moderators view hundreds of negative images daily to remove content that violates social media guidelines (e.g., live suicides, child exploitation). Frequent exposure to such content can lead to depression, anxiety, and posttraumatic stress disorder. Therefore, it is important to investigate factors that exacerbate the negative impact of viewing graphic content. Here, we examined whether the types of decisions moderators make (i.e., those…
Evaluating image modification as a harm reduction approach in content moderation
Content moderators are repeatedly exposed to disturbing material, leaving them susceptible to harm, including post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms. Currently, social media platforms such as Facebook allow moderators to modify (i.e., blur or greyscale) the visual features of images to mitigate the potential impact of the material. However, there is little empirical basis for this intervention. Therefore, we examined whether viewing distu…
Online consent risk-warnings about negative psychological side-effects do not change participant expectations or cause negative psychological side-effects
200) to encounter a risk-warning (e.g. "you may experience distress") or no warning during informed consent procedures, prior to an online trauma analogue paradigm. Opposing our predictions-and signalling good news for Institutional Review Boards and researchers-we found no evidence that warned participants reported more negative expectancies or experienced psychological nocebo effects (e.g. distress). Because risk-warnings are used as a harm mit…
Content warnings reduce aesthetic appreciation of visual art
Adding brief content-related information to sensitive-content screens does not exacerbate screen- or image-related distress
the content depicts
People at-risk of an Eating Disorder are more likely to endorse dietary misinformation claims and hold rigid beliefs
People are exposed to misinformation about dieting practices every day on social media which can influence their health and wellbeing. While misinformation research has largely focused on general vulnerabilities to misinformation and strategies to counteract its spread, limited work has examined how specific harmful content, such as dietary misinformation, influences vulnerable groups, particularly those at risk of eating disorders (EDs). This st…
Mind the Information-Gap
Instagram’s sensitive-content screens seek to minimize engagement with negative content by blurring sensitive images and providing a warning. However, the very design of sensitive-content screens may elicit uncertainty/curiosity and prompt information-seeking behaviors: congruent with the information-gap hypothesis. To test this idea experimentally, we presented participants with screened negative images accompanied by a brief, detailed, or no co…
A nervous wait
of viewing content. In Study 1, participants viewed positive and neutral images, and screens (with an option to view the negative images beneath) for a 5-minute period. In Study 2, half the participants saw a grey mask in place of the typical sensitive-content screen. In addition, each image appeared for a fixed period (5 s) and participants had no option to uncover it. Study 3 was like Study 2 except half the participants saw negative images pre…
Why the Covid-19 pandemic is a traumatic stressor
The COVID-19 pandemic does not fit into prevailing Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) models, or diagnostic criteria, yet emerging research shows traumatic stress symptoms as a result of this ongoing global stressor. Current pathogenic event models focus on past, and largely direct, trauma exposure to certain kinds of life-threatening events. Yet, traumatic stress reactions to future, indirect trauma exposure, and non-Criterion A events exist,…
Danger! Negative memories ahead
to come to mind. Warnings supposedly prevent or minimise this distress. But, do warnings really have this effect? To simulate the experience described above, here, we examined whether warning participants-by telling them that recalling a negative event would be distressing-would change characteristics associated with the immediate and delayed recall of a negative event (such as phenomenology e.g., vividness, sense of reliving), compared to partic…
People at-risk of an Eating Disorder are more likely to endorse dietary misinformation claims and hold rigid beliefs
People are exposed to misinformation about dieting practices every day on social media which can influence their health and wellbeing. While misinformation research has largely focused on general vulnerabilities to misinformation and strategies to counteract its spread, limited work has examined how specific harmful content, such as dietary misinformation, influences vulnerable groups, particularly those at risk of eating disorders (EDs). This st…
Why the Covid-19 pandemic is a traumatic stressor
The COVID-19 pandemic does not fit into prevailing Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) models, or diagnostic criteria, yet emerging research shows traumatic stress symptoms as a result of this ongoing global stressor. Current pathogenic event models focus on past, and largely direct, trauma exposure to certain kinds of life-threatening events. Yet, traumatic stress reactions to future, indirect trauma exposure, and non-Criterion A events exist,…
Danger! Negative memories ahead
to come to mind. Warnings supposedly prevent or minimise this distress. But, do warnings really have this effect? To simulate the experience described above, here, we examined whether warning participants-by telling them that recalling a negative event would be distressing-would change characteristics associated with the immediate and delayed recall of a negative event (such as phenomenology e.g., vividness, sense of reliving), compared to partic…
Mind the Information-Gap
Instagram’s sensitive-content screens seek to minimize engagement with negative content by blurring sensitive images and providing a warning. However, the very design of sensitive-content screens may elicit uncertainty/curiosity and prompt information-seeking behaviors: congruent with the information-gap hypothesis. To test this idea experimentally, we presented participants with screened negative images accompanied by a brief, detailed, or no co…
A nervous wait
of viewing content. In Study 1, participants viewed positive and neutral images, and screens (with an option to view the negative images beneath) for a 5-minute period. In Study 2, half the participants saw a grey mask in place of the typical sensitive-content screen. In addition, each image appeared for a fixed period (5 s) and participants had no option to uncover it. Study 3 was like Study 2 except half the participants saw negative images pre…
Content warnings reduce aesthetic appreciation of visual art
Adding brief content-related information to sensitive-content screens does not exacerbate screen- or image-related distress
the content depicts
People at-risk of an Eating Disorder are more likely to endorse dietary misinformation claims and hold rigid beliefs
People are exposed to misinformation about dieting practices every day on social media which can influence their health and wellbeing. While misinformation research has largely focused on general vulnerabilities to misinformation and strategies to counteract its spread, limited work has examined how specific harmful content, such as dietary misinformation, influences vulnerable groups, particularly those at risk of eating disorders (EDs). This st…
The role of decision making in the negative impact of content moderation
Content moderators view hundreds of negative images daily to remove content that violates social media guidelines (e.g., live suicides, child exploitation). Frequent exposure to such content can lead to depression, anxiety, and posttraumatic stress disorder. Therefore, it is important to investigate factors that exacerbate the negative impact of viewing graphic content. Here, we examined whether the types of decisions moderators make (i.e., those…
Evaluating image modification as a harm reduction approach in content moderation
Content moderators are repeatedly exposed to disturbing material, leaving them susceptible to harm, including post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms. Currently, social media platforms such as Facebook allow moderators to modify (i.e., blur or greyscale) the visual features of images to mitigate the potential impact of the material. However, there is little empirical basis for this intervention. Therefore, we examined whether viewing distu…
Online consent risk-warnings about negative psychological side-effects do not change participant expectations or cause negative psychological side-effects
200) to encounter a risk-warning (e.g. "you may experience distress") or no warning during informed consent procedures, prior to an online trauma analogue paradigm. Opposing our predictions-and signalling good news for Institutional Review Boards and researchers-we found no evidence that warned participants reported more negative expectancies or experienced psychological nocebo effects (e.g. distress). Because risk-warnings are used as a harm mit…
Psychology (7 works) · Anxiety (4 works) · Misinformation and Its Impacts (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Clinical Psychology (3 works) · Cognitive psychology (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Content analysis (3 works) · Media Influence and Health (3 works) · Negative emotion (3 works)