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That's interesting. However, it's not like we're not reading faces all the time anyway, even if we use masks like we've been doing lately. Family, friends, inte
by severino 5y ago
That's interesting. However, it's not like we're not reading faces all the time anyway, even if we use masks like we've been doing lately. Family, friends, internet, videocalls, remote meetings... I suppose the impact could be greater for kids in school ages, but I wonder what effects could the long term use of masks of those last 2 years produce in our lives.
- ben_w 5y agoI doubt masks are even all that important with regard to ability to read faces, because eye muscles are at least as important as mouth muscles in displays of emotional affect. You can also see this in the difference between Eastern and Western emoticons, the former may use :) as smileys while the latter uses ^_^
- penjelly 5y agoi speculate.. anti social behaviours, insecurity issues, (mis)communication issues. im not sure i follow, we do read faces daily, even in voice/video chat we do. Body and facial language matter. Cutting off 50% of that as sibling comment points out... even if it doesnt totally prevent us from reading peoples face via the the eyes, that only highlights how important reading faces is, when we cant see the entire face we exclusively look for cues in the eyes.