Kid's Emotion Inferences from Masked Faces During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Children struggle to recognize the emotions of mask-wearing faces during the covid-19 pandemic, according to a new study.

Children struggle to recognize the emotions of mask-wearing faces during the covid-19 pandemic, according to a new study. The findings of the study are published in the journal PLOS ONE.

To slow the progression of COVID-19, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the World Health Organization (WHO) have recommended wearing face coverings.

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‘Face Masks are "unlikely to dramatically impair" children's everyday interactions.’

However, very little is known about how occluding parts of the face might impact the emotion inferences that children make during social interactions.

The current study recruited a racially diverse sample of school-aged (7- to 13-years) children from publicly funded after-school programs.

Children made inferences from facial configurations that were not covered, wearing sunglasses to occlude the eyes, or wearing surgical masks to occlude the mouth.

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Children were still able to make accurate inferences about emotions, even when parts of the faces were covered.

These data suggest that while there may be some challenges for children incurred by others wearing masks, in combination with other contextual cues, masks are unlikely to dramatically impair children’s social interactions in their everyday lives.

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