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Fig. 1 | Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications

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From: Transparent masks reduce the negative impact of opaque masks on understanding emotional states but not on sharing them

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a Example photographs depicting happy, neutral, and sad expressions for Opaque mask, Transparent mask, and No mask conditions; b Sample trial progression. Participants were presented with a contextual sentence for 4000 ms. A fixation cross in duration of 200 ms preceded the presentation of a stimulus photograph displaying a congruent emotion while wearing an opaque mask, a transparent mask, or no mask. The face stimulus was shown for 2000 ms. Affective theory of mind responses were collected by asking participants to rate, on a scale from 1 (negative/low) to 9 (positive/high), how positive or negative the protagonist was feeling and the intensity of their emotion. Each response screen remained visible until response

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