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Wearing Face Masks Strongly Confuses Counterparts in Reading Emotions

Wearing face masks is one of the essential means to prevent the transmission of certain respiratory diseases such as coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Although acceptance of such masks is increasing in the Western hemisphere, many people feel that soci

"Lower accuracy and lower confidence in one’s own assessment of the displayed emotions indicate that emotional reading was strongly irritated by the presence of a mask. We further detected specific confusion patterns, mostly pronounced in the case of misinterpreting disgusted faces as being angry plus assessing many other emotions (e.g., happy, sad, and angry) as neutral."

The things that should have been known a LONG time ago...but there's a plan behind all this...if you depersonalize the person, the more likely you won't care about them; the more likely you'll sever human relationships.