Articlei-Perception2021
Face Masks Do Not Alter Gaze Cueing of Attention: Evidence From the COVID-19 Pandemic.
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- A positive side effect of wearing face coverings for socially anxious females: Findings from a speech task.Heliyon · 2024Article
- Public perception on face mask wearing during COVID-19 pandemic in Malaysia: A cross sectional study.PloS one · 2024Article
- Face coverings increase apparent honesty and cooperativeness.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Foot cues can elicit covert orienting of attention.Psychological research · 2023Article
- Autistic traits modulate the influence of face masks on gaze perception.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Face mask reduces gaze-cueing effect.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Guilt-inducing interaction with others modulates subsequent attentional orienting via their gaze.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Spontaneous behavioral coordination between avoiding pedestrians requires mutual anticipation rather than mutual gaze.iScience · 2022Article
- Face masks inhibit facial cues for approachability and trustworthiness: an eyetracking study.Current psychology (New Brunswick, N.J.) · 2022Article
- Face masks have a limited effect on the feeling of being looked at.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2022Article
- Wearing the face mask affects our social attention over space.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Face Mask Reduces the Effect of Proposer's (Un)Trustworthiness on Intertemporal and Risky Choices.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Early Word Segmentation Behind the Mask.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
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Abstract
Interacting with others wearing a face mask has become a regular worldwide practice since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the impact of face masks on cognitive mechanisms supporting social interaction is still largely unexplored. In the present work, we focused on gaze cueing of attention, a phenomenon tapping the essential ability which allows individuals to orient their attentional resources in response to eye gaze signals coming from others. Participants from both a European (i.e., Italy; Experiment 1) and an Asian (i.e., China; Experiment 2) country were involved, namely two countries in which the daily use of face masks before COVID-19 pandemic was either extremely uncommon or frequently adopted, respectively. Both samples completed a task in which a peripheral target had to be discriminated while a task irrelevant averted gaze face, wearing a mask or not, acted as a central cueing stimulus. Overall, a reliable and comparable gaze cueing emerged in both experiments, independent of the mask condition. These findings suggest that gaze cueing of attention is preserved even when the person perceived is wearing a face mask.
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