The COVID-19 pandemic, mask-wearing, and emotion recognition during late-childhood.

ABSTRACT: Face masks are an effective and important tool to prevent the spread of COVID-19, including among children. However, occluding parts of the face can impact emotion recognition, which is fundamental to effective social interactions. Social distancing, stress, and changes to routines because of the pandemic have also altered the social landscape of children, with implications for social development. To better understand how social input and context impact emotion recognition, the current study investigated emotion recognition in children (7-12 years old, N = 131) using images of both masked and unmasked emotional faces. We also assessed a subsample of participants ("pre-pandemic subsample," n = 35) who had completed the same emotion recognition task with unmasked faces before a

SUBMITTER: Chester M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9538546 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature