ReviewPsychiatry research2022
Communicating and reading emotion with masked faces in the Covid era: A short review of the literature.
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11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 30 citations in OpenAlex.
- Masks and respirators for prevention of respiratory infections: a state of the science review.Clinical microbiology reviews · 2024Pooled it
- Immersive virtual reality training: Addressing challenges and unlocking potentials.Medical education · 2025Article
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- WHO'Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Therapeutic Relational Communication and Resilience among Nursing Professionals in a Pandemic Situation.Nursing reports (Pavia, Italy) · 2024Article
- How different face mask types affect interpersonal distance perception and threat feeling in social interaction.Cognitive processing · 2024Article
- Lower empathy for face mask wearers is not explained by observer's reduced facial mimicry.PloS one · 2024Article
- Masked Face Emotion Recognition Based on Facial Landmarks and Deep Learning Approaches for Visually Impaired People.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Predictors of Healthcare Workers' Compassionate Care Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Cross-Sectional Study from Patients' Perspective in Kelantan, Malaysia.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Listening to your partner: serotonin increases male responsiveness to female vocal signals in mice.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2023Article
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3 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Face masks have proven to be key to slowing down the SARS-Cov2 virus spread in the COVID-19 pandemic context. However, wearing face masks is not devoid of "side-effects", at both the physical and psychosocial levels. In particular, masks hinder emotion reading from facial expressions as they hide a significant part of the face. This disturbs both holistic and featural processing of facial expressions and, therefore, impairs emotion recognition, and influences many aspects of human social behavior. Communication in general is disrupted by face masks, as they modify the wearer's voice and prevent the audience from using lip reading or other non-verbal cues for speech comprehension. Individuals suffering from psychiatric conditions with impairment of communication, are at higher risk of distress because masks increase their difficulties to read emotions from faces. The identification and acknowledgement of these "side-effects" on communication are necessary because they warrant further work on adaptive solutions that will help foster the use of face masks by the greatest number.
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