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The impact of face masks on interpersonal trust in times of COVID-19.
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- How facemasks shape trust in social interactions.PloS one · 2025Article
- Masking is good, but conforming is better: The consequences of masking non-conformity within the college classroom.PloS one · 2025Article
- Influence of protective clothing and masks on facial trustworthiness in an investment game: insights from a Chinese population study.Cognitive research: principles and implications · 2024Article
- In masks we trust: explicit and implicit reactions to masked faces vary by political orientation.BMC psychology · 2024Article
- Social and political trust diverge during a crisis.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Hidden faces, altered perceptions: the impact of face masks on interpersonal perception.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Review
- Trustworthiness judgments and Borderline Personality Disorder: an experimental study on the interplay of happiness and trustworthiness appraisals and the effects of wearing face masks during the Covid-19 pandemic in Germany.Borderline personality disorder and emotion dysregulation · 2022Article
- Facial impression of trustworthiness biases statement credibility unless suppressed by facemask.Current psychology (New Brunswick, N.J.) · 2022Article
- Wearing face masks impairs dyadic micro-activities in nonverbal social encounter: A mixed-methods first-person study on the sense of I and Thou.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- The role of face masks within in-patient psychotherapy: Results of a survey among inpatients and healthcare professionals.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2022Article
- Wearing the face mask affects our social attention over space.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
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Abstract
Despite the widespread use of face masks to combat COVID-19, little is known about their social and behavioral consequences. To understand the impact of face masks on interpersonal trust, we designed a novel experiment to assess the causal impact of face mask use on whether individuals follow economically relevant advice from a stranger. From a survey of more than 2000 US citizens, conducted during July and August 2020, we find that almost 5% fewer individuals trust advice when it is given by someone wearing a mask than when it is given by someone not wearing a mask. While, surprisingly, health-related risks do not seem to alter the way masks affect trust, the effects of masks are particularly large among individuals whose households face economic risks due to COVID-19 and those with below-average normative beliefs about mask wearing. Our results highlight the non-health-related meaning that face masks have developed during COVID-19 and suggest that mask use undermines trust in others among a substantial share of the US population.
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