ArticlePloS one2022
Impact of face masks and sunglasses on emotion recognition in South Koreans.
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- Seeing emotions: an eye-tracking study of emotion recognition in deaf individuals amid facial occlusions.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
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- The effects of face masks on emotional appraisal ability of students with autism spectrum disorder.International journal of developmental disabilities · 2024Article
- The eyes as the exclamation mark of the face: exploring the relationship between eye size, intensity of female facial expressions and attractiveness in a range of emotions.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Emotions behind a mask: the value of disgust.Schizophrenia (Heidelberg, Germany) · 2023Article
- The effect of masks on the emotion perception of a facial crowd.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Face masks influence emotion judgments of facial expressions: a drift-diffusion model.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Social sensitivity predicts accurate emotion inference from facial expressions in a face mask: a study in Japan.Current psychology (New Brunswick, N.J.) · 2023Article
- Face coverings differentially alter valence judgments of emotional expressions.Basic and applied social psychology · 2023Article
- Recognition of masked and unmasked facial expressions in males and females and relations with mental wellness.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
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- Emotional context can reduce the negative impact of face masks on inferring emotions.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Effects of diagnostic regions on facial emotion recognition: The moving window technique.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Mapping the perception-space of facial expressions in the era of face masks.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
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Abstract
Due to the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic, wearing masks has become essential for social interaction, disturbing emotion recognition in daily life. In the present study, a total of 39 Korean participants (female = 20, mean age = 24.2 years) inferred seven emotions (happiness, surprise, fear, sadness, disgust, anger, surprise, and neutral) from uncovered, mask-covered, sunglasses-covered faces. The recognition rates were the lowest under mask conditions, followed by the sunglasses and uncovered conditions. In identifying emotions, different emotion types were associated with different areas of the face. Specifically, the mouth was the most critical area for happiness, surprise, sadness, disgust, and anger recognition, but fear was most recognized from the eyes. By simultaneously comparing faces with different parts covered, we were able to more accurately examine the impact of different facial areas on emotion recognition. We discuss the potential cultural differences and the ways in which individuals can cope with communication in which facial expressions are paramount.
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