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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Neuroscience
  • Social Cognition

Background:

  • Mandatory mask-wearing due to the pandemic has altered social interactions.
  • Reduced reliance on facial cues presents challenges, particularly for individuals with neuropsychiatric and neurodevelopmental conditions.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the impact of face masks on facial affect recognition and social cognition.
  • To explore the challenges and limitations in reading masked faces.

Main Methods:

  • Review of existing research on facial affect recognition with masked faces.
  • Analysis of how masks influence emotional expression interpretation and social perception.

Main Results:

  • Masks hamper facial affect recognition but allow basic emotional expression inference.
  • Masks narrow the emotional spectrum, dampen evaluations, affect perceived attractiveness, and introduce biases.
  • Face reading difficulties are gender- and age-specific, globally observed, and involve extensive neural circuits.

Conclusions:

  • Masks significantly impact social cognition and face reading abilities.
  • Further research is needed to understand mask effects in real-world dynamic scenarios and specific neural underpinnings.