ICPS

2023 International Convention of Psychological Science · 2023

Children's Interpretation of Others' Faces Covered with Medical Masks

Brussels, Belgium · March 2023

poster · Personality/Emotion

  • Sevval Cinar
    Sevval
  • Katrina Abela
    McMaster University
  • Danielle Law
    Wilfrid Laurier University

Abstract

To investigate the effects of wearing masks on children's emotion recognition, regulation, and social emotional development, 200 children aged 4-6 will be given a series of vignettes and asked to match masked and unmasked facial expressions of the emotions as their gaze is being monitored using an eye tracker.

Emotion