Eyes Compensate Smile When Wearing Mask

Okazaki, Shinji; Yamanami, Haruna; Nakagawa, Fumika; Takuwa, Nozomi; Kawabata, Keith James Duncan

doi:10.21203/rs.3.rs-576144/v1

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“…Further, some eye-tracking studies reveal that the mouth area is more fixated during the recognition of happiness (Beaudry et al, 2014;Eisenbarth & Alpers, 2011). Though most studies show that mouth area is focused when happiness is detected (Blais et al, 2012;Kotsia et al, 2008;Eisenbarth and Alpers, 2011;Fischer et al, 2012), when Duchenne smiles are observed (Okazaki et al, 2021;Sheldon et al, 2021), eyes alone are diagnostic as Duchenne refers to smiles in which both the muscle that orbits the eye and Zygomaticus Major are active.…”

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Masked Emotions: Do Face Mask Patterns and Colors Affect the Recognition of Emotions?

Blazhenkova¹,

Dogerlioglu-Demir²

2021

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Previous research has shown that face masks restrain the ability to perceive social information and readability of emotions. These studies mostly explored the effect of standard medical, often white masks on emotion recognition. However, in reality, many individuals prefer masks with different styles. We investigated whether the appearance of the mask (pattern-angular vs. curvy and color-black vs. white) affected the recognition of emotional states. Participants were asked to identify the emotions on faces covered by masks with different designs. The presence of masks impeded emotional recognition, dropping the accuracy and confidence and increasing reaction times. There were no main effects of angularity vs. curvature or color on emotion recognition, which suggests that mask design may not impair the recognition beyond the effect of mere mask wearing. Besides, we found relationships between individual difference variables such as mask wearing attitudes, mask design preferences, individual traits and emotional recognition. The majority of participants demonstrated positive attitudes towards mask wearing and preferred non-patterned black and white masks. Preferences for white masks were associated with better emotional recognition of masked faces. In contrast, those with negative attitudes towards masks showed lower performance in emotional recognition for masked faces, preferring patterned more than plain masks, perhaps viewing masks as a fashion item rather than a necessity. Moreover, preferences to wear patterned masks were negatively related to actual wearing masks indoors and perceived risks of COVID.

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Section: Significance Statementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Masked Emotions: Do Face Mask Patterns and Colors Affect the Recognition of Emotions?

Blazhenkova¹,

Dogerlioglu-Demir²

2021

Preprint

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“…Further, some eye-tracking studies reveal that the mouth area is more fixated during the recognition of happiness (Beaudry et al, 2014 ; Eisenbarth & Alpers, 2011 ). Though most studies show that the mouth area is focused when happiness is detected (Blais et al, 2012 ; Eisenbarth & Alpers, 2011 ; Fischer et al, 2012 ; Kotsia et al, 2008 ), when ‘Duchenne smiles’ are observed (Okazaki et al, 2021 ; Sheldon et al, 2021 ), the eyes alone are diagnostic, as the term Duchenne refers to smiles in which both the muscle that orbits the eye and zygomaticus major are active.…”

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confidence: 99%

Masked emotions: Do face mask patterns and colors affect the recognition of emotions?

2022

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Previous research has shown that face masks impair the ability to perceive social information and the readability of emotions. These studies mostly explored the effect of standard medical, often white, masks on emotion recognition. However, in reality, many individuals prefer masks with different styles. We investigated whether the appearance of the mask (pattern: angular vs. curvy and color: black vs. white) affected the recognition of emotional states. Participants were asked to identify the emotions on faces covered by masks with different designs. The presence of masks resulted in decreasing accuracy and confidence and increasing reaction times, indicating that masks impair emotion recognition. There were no significant effects of angularity versus curvature or color on emotion recognition, which suggests that mask design may not impair the recognition beyond the effect of mere mask wearing. Besides, we found relationships between individual difference variables such as mask wearing attitudes, mask design preferences, individual traits and emotion recognition. The majority of participants demonstrated positive attitudes toward mask wearing and preferred non-patterned black and white masks. Preferences for white masks were associated with better emotion recognition of masked faces. In contrast, those with negative attitudes toward masks showed marginally poorer performance in emotion recognition for masked faces, and preferred patterned more than plain masks, perhaps viewing masks as a fashion item rather than a necessity. Moreover, preferences to wear patterned masks were negatively related to actual wearing of masks indoors and perceived risks of COVID.

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Eyes Compensate Smile When Wearing Mask

Cited by 2 publications

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Masked Emotions: Do Face Mask Patterns and Colors Affect the Recognition of Emotions?

Masked Emotions: Do Face Mask Patterns and Colors Affect the Recognition of Emotions?

Masked emotions: Do face mask patterns and colors affect the recognition of emotions?

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