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In the Blink of an Eye: Reading Mental States From Briefly Presented Eye Regions.
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16 citing papers in PubMed, 30 citations in OpenAlex.
- The impact of briefly observing faces in opaque facial masks on emotion recognition and empathic concern.Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006) · 2023Trial
- Autistic eye contact? A hermeneutic phenomenological multicenter study of the similarities and differences in eye-contact experiences between adults with and without autism.Journal of neurodevelopmental disorders · 2025Article
- The portrait of Dorian Gray: spontaneous expression of happiness is an invariant kinematic marker.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Development and testing of a questionnaire on the expectations and experiences with wearing face masks in inpatient and day hospitals.PloS one · 2024Article
- Face masks negatively skew theory of mind judgements.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- The moderating role of spirituality and gender in Canadian and Iranian emerging adolescents' theory of mind and prosocial behavior.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Communicating and reading emotion with masked faces in the Covid era: A short review of the literature.Psychiatry research · 2022Review
- The effects of face coverings, own-ethnicity biases, and attitudes on emotion recognition.Cognitive research: principles and implications · 2022Article
- Reading Emotions in Faces With and Without Masks Is Relatively Independent of Extended Exposure and Individual Difference Variables.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Wearing N95, Surgical, and Cloth Face Masks Compromises the Perception of Emotion.Affective science · 2022Article
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- Face Masks Do Not Alter Gaze Cueing of Attention: Evidence From the COVID-19 Pandemic.i-Perception · 2021Article
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5 authors at 5 institutions in 3 countries.
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Abstract
Faces provide not only cues to an individual's identity, age, gender, and ethnicity but also insight into their mental states. The aim was to investigate the temporal aspects of processing of facial expressions of complex mental states for very short presentation times ranging from 12.5 to 100 ms in a four-alternative forced choice paradigm based on Reading the Mind in the Eyes test. Results show that participants are able to recognise very subtle differences between facial expressions; performance is better than chance, even for the shortest presentation time. Importantly, we show for the first time that observers can recognise these expressions based on information contained in the eye region only. These results support the hypothesis that the eye region plays a particularly important role in social interactions and that the expressions in the eyes are a rich source of information about other peoples' mental states. When asked to what extent the observers guessed during the task, they significantly underestimated their ability to make correct decisions, yet perform better than chance, even for very brief presentation times. These results are particularly relevant in the light of the current COVID-19 pandemic and the associated wearing of face coverings.
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