claim: wearing face masks strongly confuses counterparts in reading emotions
evidence_1: lower accuracy and lower confidence in one's own assessment of the displayed emotions indicate that emotional reading was strongly irritated by the presence of a mask.", "this means that in natural contexts, the impact of face masks on reading emotions could even be stronger.", "a drop in performance in reading the emotional states of faces with masks can somehow be expected as being much harder when most visual information of the lower half of the face is blocked out.", "face masks may complicate social interaction as they disturb emotion reading from facial expression."
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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