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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Social Neuroscience
  • Human Behaviour

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  • The COVID-19 pandemic necessitated widespread face mask usage, prompting research into its effects on social cognition.
  • Eyes are crucial for social attention orienting via gaze cues, a mechanism potentially altered by face masks.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how face masks influence social attention orienting.
  • To determine if the effect of face masks on gaze-cueing is due to physical obstruction or social meaning.

Main Methods:

  • A spatial gaze-cueing task was employed with masked and non-masked faces as cues.
  • Experiments varied stimulus onset asynchrony (SOA) at 300 ms and 1000 ms.
  • Mouth-obscured faces were used in a second experiment to differentiate physical from social effects.

Main Results:

  • Masked faces produced a smaller gaze-cueing effect (GCE) than non-masked faces at 300 ms SOA.
  • GCEs were similar for masked and non-masked faces at 1000 ms SOA.
  • Mouth-obscured faces did not significantly alter GCE, suggesting the mask's social meaning is key.

Conclusions:

  • Face masks diminish the effectiveness of eye gaze as a social attention cue, particularly at short exposure times.
  • The observed reduction in gaze-cueing is attributed to the social interpretation of masks, not their physical presence.
  • Findings highlight how high-level social information, like mask-wearing, modulates basic social cognitive processes such as attention.