ArticleFrontiers in psychology2022
Reading Emotions in Faces With and Without Masks Is Relatively Independent of Extended Exposure and Individual Difference Variables.
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- Physio-metabolic and clinical consequences of wearing face masks-Systematic review with meta-analysis and comprehensive evaluation.Frontiers in public health · 2023Pooled it
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- Visual exposure to masked faces benefits personally familiar but not famous face recognition.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Impact of mask use on facial emotion recognition in individuals with subclinical social anxiety: an eye-tracking study.Cognitive research: principles and implications · 2025Article
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- 'The mirror of the soul?' Inferring sadness in the eyes.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Recognizing and Looking at Masked Emotional Faces in Alexithymia.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- On the brain struggles to recognize basic facial emotions with face masks: an fMRI study.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- The bacterial burden of worn face masks-observational research and literature review.Frontiers in public health · 2024Review
- Lesson learned from the COVID-19 pandemic: toddlers learn earlier to read emotions with face masks.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Hysteresis reveals a happiness bias effect in dynamic emotion recognition from ambiguous biological motion.Journal of vision · 2023Article
- Emotions behind a mask: the value of disgust.Schizophrenia (Heidelberg, Germany) · 2023Article
- Recognition of masked and unmasked facial expressions in males and females and relations with mental wellness.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Face mask use as a categorical dimension in social perception.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Face masks impair facial emotion recognition and induce specific emotion confusions.Cognitive research: principles and implications · 2022Article
- Mapping the perception-space of facial expressions in the era of face masks.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- The Recognition of Facial Expressions Under Surgical Masks: The Primacy of Anger.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2022Article
- Face Mask Reduces the Effect of Proposer's (Un)Trustworthiness on Intertemporal and Risky Choices.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
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Abstract
The ability to read emotions in faces helps humans efficiently assess social situations. We tested how this ability is affected by aspects of familiarization with face masks and personality, with a focus on emotional intelligence (measured with an ability test, the MSCEIT, and a self-report scale, the SREIS). To address aspects of the current pandemic situation, we used photos of not only faces
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