Articlei-Perception2022
Mask wearing affects emotion perception.
Article in i-Perception, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 19 citations in OpenAlex.
- A Psychological Guide to Lower Face Botulinum Toxin Injections: Baseline Emotional Functions of Facial Expressions.Journal of cosmetic dermatology · 2026Review
- Effects of Interoceptive Awareness on Recognition of and Sensitivity to Emotions in Masked Facial Stimuli.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Masked emotions: does children's affective state influence emotion recognition?Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- How Brow Rotation Affects Emotional Expression Utilizing Artificial Intelligence.Aesthetic plastic surgery · 2023Article
- 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
- Apple Vision Pro: a new horizon in psychological research and therapy.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- COVID-19 masks: A barrier to facial and vocal information.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2022Article
- How facial masks alter the interaction of gaze direction, head orientation, and emotion recognition.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2022Article
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7 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
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Abstract
To reduce the spread of COVID-19, mask wearing has become ubiquitous in much of the world. We studied the extent to which masks impair emotion recognition and dampen the perceived intensity of facial expressions by naturalistically inducing positive, neutral, and negative emotions in individuals while they were masked and unmasked. Two groups of online participants rated the emotional intensity of each presented image. One group rated full faces (N=104); the other (N=102) rated cropped images where only the upper face was visible. We found that masks impaired the recognition of and rated intensity of positive emotions. This happened even when the faces were cropped and the lower part of the face was not visible. Masks may thus reduce positive emotion and/or expressivity of positive emotion. However, perception of negativity was unaffected by masking, perhaps because unlike positive emotions like happiness which are signaled more in the mouth, negative emotions like anger rely more on the upper face.
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