The effects of face coverings, own-ethnicity biases, and attitudes on emotion recognition.
Cogn Res Princ Implic
; 7(1): 57, 2022 07 02.
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As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, face coverings were introduced as a safety measure in certain environments in England and some research suggests that they can affect emotion recognition. Factors such as own-ethnicity bias (e.g. whether people perceiving and expressing emotions are of the same ethnicity) and social biases are also known to influence emotion recognition. However, it is unclear whether these factors interact with face coverings to affect emotion recognition. Therefore, this study examined the effects of face coverings, own-ethnicity biases, and attitudes on emotion recognition accuracy. In this study, 131 participants viewed masked and unmasked emotional faces varying in ethnicity and completed a questionnaire on their attitudes towards face masks. We found that emotion recognition was associated with masks and attitudes: accuracy was lower in masked than unmasked conditions and attitudes towards masks Inside and Outside were associated with emotion recognition. However, a match between perceiver and stimulus ethnicity did not have a significant effect on emotion recognition. Ultimately, our results suggest that masks, and negative attitudes towards them, were associated with poorer emotion recognition. Future research should explore different mask-wearing behaviours and possible in-group/out-group biases and their interaction with other social cues (e.g. in-group biases).
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Colección:
01-internacional
Base de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Expresión Facial
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COVID-19
Aspecto:
Determinantes_sociais_saude
Límite:
Humans
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Cogn Res Princ Implic
Año:
2022
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Article
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Reino Unido