Face masks impair facial emotion recognition and induce specific emotion confusions
Highlights 1. We studied how facial masks impair facial emotion recognition. 2. We used validated actors and facial expressions from the Radboud Faces Database. 3. Masks impaired recognition of disgust, fear, surprise, sadness, and happiness. 4. With masks, disgust was often misinterpreted as anger,...
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| author | Mike Rinck Maximilian A. Primbs Iris A. M. Verpaalen Gijsbert Bijlstra |
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| description | Highlights 1. We studied how facial masks impair facial emotion recognition. 2. We used validated actors and facial expressions from the Radboud Faces Database. 3. Masks impaired recognition of disgust, fear, surprise, sadness, and happiness. 4. With masks, disgust was often misinterpreted as anger, and fear as surprise. 5. These results were replicated twice in large samples. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-e134708036dd465b95c7961d15ad90ea2022-12-22T03:13:00ZengSpringerOpenCognitive Research2365-74642022-09-017111510.1186/s41235-022-00430-5Face masks impair facial emotion recognition and induce specific emotion confusionsMike Rinck0Maximilian A. Primbs1Iris A. M. Verpaalen2Gijsbert Bijlstra3Behavioural Science Institute, Radboud University NijmegenBehavioural Science Institute, Radboud University NijmegenBehavioural Science Institute, Radboud University NijmegenBehavioural Science Institute, Radboud University NijmegenHighlights 1. We studied how facial masks impair facial emotion recognition. 2. We used validated actors and facial expressions from the Radboud Faces Database. 3. Masks impaired recognition of disgust, fear, surprise, sadness, and happiness. 4. With masks, disgust was often misinterpreted as anger, and fear as surprise. 5. These results were replicated twice in large samples.https://doi.org/10.1186/s41235-022-00430-5Face masksFacial emotion recognitionRadboud Faces Database |
| spellingShingle | Mike Rinck Maximilian A. Primbs Iris A. M. Verpaalen Gijsbert Bijlstra Face masks impair facial emotion recognition and induce specific emotion confusions Cognitive Research Face masks Facial emotion recognition Radboud Faces Database |
| title | Face masks impair facial emotion recognition and induce specific emotion confusions |
| title_full | Face masks impair facial emotion recognition and induce specific emotion confusions |
| title_fullStr | Face masks impair facial emotion recognition and induce specific emotion confusions |
| title_full_unstemmed | Face masks impair facial emotion recognition and induce specific emotion confusions |
| title_short | Face masks impair facial emotion recognition and induce specific emotion confusions |
| title_sort | face masks impair facial emotion recognition and induce specific emotion confusions |
| topic | Face masks Facial emotion recognition Radboud Faces Database |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1186/s41235-022-00430-5 |
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