Paying attention to faces is of special interest for humans as well as for scientific research.
The experimental manipulation of facial information offers an ecologically valid approach to …

Background The globally devastating effects of COVID‐19 breach not only the realm of
public health, but of psychosocial interaction and communication as well, particularly with …

Which facial features allow human observers to successfully recognize expressions of
emotion? While the eyes and mouth have been frequently shown to be of high importance …

Facial emotion recognition is crucial for social interaction. However, in times of a global
pandemic, where wearing a face mask covering mouth and nose is widely encouraged to …

The identification of emotional expressions is vital for social interaction, and can be affected
by various factors, including the expressed emotion, the intensity of the expression, the sex …

The current global pandemic situation due to the Covid-19 has implied several
consequences at all psychological levels. One of the main differences with respect to the pre …

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, millions of people around the world have been wearing
masks. This has negatively affected the reading of facial emotions. In the current study, the …

Face recognition is not rooted in a universal eye movement information-gathering strategy.
Western observers favor a local facial feature sampling strategy, whereas Eastern observers …

Facial expressions are a core component of the emotional response of social mammals. In
contrast to Darwin's original proposition, expressive facial cues of emotion appear to have …

Environmental conditions bias our perception of other peoples' facial emotions. This
becomes quite relevant in potentially threatening situations, when a fellow's facial …