Masked emotions: does children's affective state influence emotion recognition?

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Facial emotion recognition abilities of children have been the focus of attention across various fields, with implications for communication, social interaction, and human behavior. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, wearing a face mask in public became mandatory in many countries, hindering social information perception and emotion recognition. Given the importance of visual communication for children's social-emotional development, concerns have been raised on whether face masks could impair their ability to recognize emotions and thereby possibly impact their social-emotional development.

Methods

To this extent, a quasiexperimental study was designed with a two-fold objective: firstly, to identify children's accuracy in recognizing basic emotions (anger, h

SUBMITTER: Mastorogianni ME 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11220387 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature