Effects of Masks Worn to Protect Against COVID-19 on the Perception of Facial Attractiveness

Wearing a sanitary mask tended, in the main, to reduce the wearer’s sense of perceived facial attractiveness before the COVID-19 epidemic. This phenomenon, termed the sanitary-mask effect , was explained using a two-factor model involving the occlusion of cues used for the judgment of attractiveness...

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Main Authors: Miki Kamatani, Motohiro Ito, Yuki Miyazaki, Jun I. Kawahara
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2021-06-01
Series:i-Perception
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/20416695211027920