How subtle cues can help people communicate—and feel understood—when they're wearing a mask
, frowning, bored, tired, or afraid? Their mouths will often give away their state of mind. However, in a time when nearly everyone is wearing some type of lower facial covering, you’re left with the need to determine how the people around you are feeling with very limited cues.
Everyone is operating under similarly strange scenarios as they venture outside their homes to complete their necessary tasks with their faces covered in various forms of protection. Front-line health care workers spend their entire time with patients and fellow staff members under similar constraints.
In the second Roitblat et al. study , the authors therefore contrasted the ability of judges to recognize emotions from the eyes, the middle region, and then the full photo of faces intended to communicate the three emotions of angry, happy, and sad. Two separate panels of 400 individuals each rated the emotions represented in the photos of full or partial facial expressions.
However, after correcting further for the fact that the same judges provided ratings within each panel of all facial stimuli, the differences among the three conditions leveled off, and the judging of emotions from eye gaze alone remained about as good as that from the entire face.
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