Skip to main content

Table 3 Emotion-specific effects of face masks on emotion recognition accuracy in the young and old cohort

From: Surgical face masks do not impair the decoding of facial expressions of negative affect more severely in older than in younger adults

 

Accuracy

Anger

Fear

Sadness

Contempt

Δ hu

Cohen's d

BF10

%

Δ hu

Cohen's d

BF10

%

Δ hu

Cohen's d

BF10

%

Δ hu

Cohen's d

BF10

%

Young cohort

w/o mask

0.25

1.7

> 100

 

0.29

2.0

> 100

 

0.30

2.4

> 100

 

0.25

1.9

> 100

 

With mask

0.17

1.7

> 100

 

0.22

1.7

> 100

 

0.17

1.7

> 100

 

0.13

1.3

> 100

 

Mask effect

0.08

0.45

22

31%

0.07

0.43

14

25%

0.14

0.86

> 100

45%

0.12

0.85

> 100

48%

Old cohort

w/o mask

0.11

1.1

> 100

 

0.12

1.0

> 100

 

0.17

1.3

> 100

 

0.15

1.4

> 100

 

With mask

0.10

0.96

> 100

 

0.10

0.96

> 100

 

0.10

1.0

> 100

 

0.07

0.82

> 100

 

Mask effect

0.01

0.07

0.25

8%

0.02

0.17

0.55

20%

0.08

0.51

53

44%

0.07

0.57

> 100

50%

Age effect

Mean

0.11

1.2

> 100

 

0.15

1.5

> 100

 

0.10

1.2

> 100

 

0.08

0.92

> 100

 

Mask effect

0.07

− 0.46

0.07

 

0.05

− 0.31

0.09

 

0.06

− 0.39

0.08

 

0.05

− 0.34

0.09

 
  1. All comparisons are one-sided and signs indicate the direction of an effect relative to the prediction (see text). BF10 > 3 (at least moderate evidence for H1) are bold and BF10 < .33 (at least moderate evidence against H1) are bold and in italics. Δ hu, unbiased hit rate minus chance; %, relative decline due to face masks (relative to faces without masks)