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

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Table 4 Relation between attitudes towards face masks as assessed with the atom questionnaire and face mask effects on emotion recognition and interpersonal appraisal

	Accuracy		Confidence		Awareness		Trustability		Liking		Closeness
	r	BF10	r	BF10	r	BF10	r	BF10	r	BF10	r	BF10
Young cohort
Impairment	0.29	0.79	0.16	0.40	− 0.21	1.3	− 0.08	0.34	− 0.12	0.43	− 0.04	*0.24*
Utility	0.14	0.42	0.26	0.60	0.26	1.8	0.16	0.42	0.15	0.48	0.02	*0.24*
Old cohort
Impairment	− 0.13	*0.30*	0.37	4.8	− 0.06	*0.24*	0.21	0.83	0.25	0.96	0.31	1.9
Utility	− 0.07	*0.26*	− 0.05	0.59	− 0.08	*0.25*	− 0.15	0.62	− 0.08	0.46	− 0.06	0.52

BF10 > 3 (at least moderate evidence for a relation) are bold and BF10 < 0.33 (at least moderate evidence for no relation) are bold and in italics. r, partial correlation coefficient