Table 2 Mean response times (in ms) to complete age evaluations of unmasked and masked neutral and smiling faces in the different age groups in Experiments 1 and 2 (standard errors of the mean in brackets)
From: Smiling makes you look older, even when you wear a mask: the effect of face masks on age perception
Age group (of faces) | Young adults | Middle-aged adults | Old adults | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Expression | Neutral | Smiling | Neutral | Smiling | Neutral | Smiling | |
Experiment 1 | Unmasked faces | 4555 (272) | 4757 (346) | 4869 (347) | 4825 (291) | 4580 (347) | 4451 (323) |
Masked faces | 5005 (345) | 5008 (316) | 5354 (342) | 5172 (332) | 4941 (311) | 4972 (324) | |
Experiment 2 | Unmasked faces | 4979 (208) | 5107 (210) | 5262 (197) | 5359 (209) | 4985 (196) | 4847 (179) |
Masked faces | 4925 (207) | 5264 (241) | 5345 (219) | 5302 (222) | 5163 (221) | 4971 (211) | |