Face Masks Inhibit Facial Cues for Approachability and Trustworthiness: an Eyetracking Study

Overview

Journal Curr Psychol

Publisher Springer

Specialty Psychology

Date 2022 Oct 11

PMID 36217421

Authors

Listryarinie Ongko Bylianto

Kai Qin Chan

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Abstract

Supplementary Information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s12144-022-03705-8.

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