Noyes, E. orcid.org/0000-0001-8709-879X, Davis, J.P., Petrov, N. et al. (2 more authors) (2021) The effect of face masks and sunglasses on identity and expression recognition with super-recognizers and typical observers. Royal Society Open Science, 8 (3). 201169. ISSN 2054-5703
Abstract
Face masks present a new challenge to face identification (here matching) and emotion recognition in Western cultures. Here, we present the results of three experiments that test the effect of masks, and also the effect of sunglasses (an occlusion that individuals tend to have more experienced with) on (i) familiar face matching, (ii) unfamiliar face matching and (iii) emotion categorization. Occlusion reduced accuracy in all three tasks, with most errors in the mask condition; however, there was little difference in performance for faces in masks compared with faces in sunglasses. Super-recognizers, people who are highly skilled at matching unconcealed faces, were impaired by occlusion, but at the group level, performed with higher accuracy than controls on all tasks. Results inform psychology theory with implications for everyday interactions, security and policing in a mask-wearing society.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2021 The Authors. Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited. |
Keywords: | face recognition, emotion recognition,masks, super-recognizers, face matching |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Medicine and Health (Leeds) > School of Psychology (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 12 Dec 2024 12:58 |
Last Modified: | 12 Dec 2024 12:58 |
Published Version: | https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rso... |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | The Royal Society |
Identification Number: | 10.1098/rsos.201169 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:220735 |