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Frequent experience with face coverings for 10 months improves emotion perception among individuals with high autistic traits: a repeated cross-sectional study

Ong, J. H. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1503-8311 and Liu, F. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7776-0222 (2023) Frequent experience with face coverings for 10 months improves emotion perception among individuals with high autistic traits: a repeated cross-sectional study. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 76 (7). pp. 1599-1608. ISSN 1747-0218

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Abstract/Summary

Face coverings pose difficulties for emotion recognition, but it is unclear whether improvement in recognising emotions from the eyes is possible with experience and whether this might be dependent on one’s autistic traits, given the associations between high autistic traits and poorer emotion perception and reduced gaze to the eye region. In this preregistered study, participants completed a forced-choice emotion recognition task with photographs of eyes and demographic questionnaires that measure their autistic traits and their interaction frequency with others wearing face coverings at two time points: once at the start of the face covering mandate and again 10 months later. We found that after 10 months, individuals with high autistic traits as a cohort recognised emotions from just the eyes better as a function of their experience with others wearing face coverings, suggesting that emotion perception is malleable even for those who have difficulties with emotion perception.

Item Type:Article
Refereed:Yes
Divisions:Interdisciplinary Research Centres (IDRCs) > Centre for Integrative Neuroscience and Neurodynamics (CINN)
Interdisciplinary centres and themes > ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorders) Research Network
Life Sciences > School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences > Department of Psychology
Life Sciences > School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences > Perception and Action
ID Code:106452
Publisher:Sage

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