[Le port du masque affecte l'identification des expressions faciales émotionnelles, surtout chez les personnes âgées]. / Wearing face masks makes identifying emotional facial expressions harder, especially for older adults.
Geriatr Psychol Neuropsychiatr Vieil
; 22(2): 200-208, 2024 Jun 01.
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| ID: mdl-39023155
ABSTRACT
Younger adults have difficulties identifying emotional facial expressions from faces covered by face masks. It is important to evaluate how face mask wearing might specifically impact older people, because they have lower emotion identification performance than younger adults, even without face masks. We compared performance of 62 young and 38 older adults in an online task of emotional facial expression identification using masked or unmasked pictures of faces with fear, happiness, anger, surprise, and neutral expression, from different viewpoints. Face masks affected performance in both age groups, but more so in older adults, specifically for negative emotions (anger, fear), in favour of the saliency hypothesis as an explanation for the positive advantage. Additionally, face masks more affected emotion recognition on profile than on three-quarter or full-face views. Our results encourage using clearer and full-face expressions when dealing with older people while wearing face masks.
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Colección:
01-internacional
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MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Emociones
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Expresión Facial
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Reconocimiento Facial
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Máscaras
Límite:
Adult
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Aged
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Aged80
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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Middle aged
Idioma:
Fr
Revista:
Geriatr Psychol Neuropsychiatr Vieil
Año:
2024
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Article
País de afiliación:
Francia
Pais de publicación:
Francia