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Children struggle to discern emotions for mask-wearing faces, though masks are "unlikely to dramatically impair" their everyday interactions.
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Article Title: "Children's emotion inferences from masked faces: Implications for social interactions during COVID-19"
Funding: SDP was supported by the National Institute of Mental Health (R01 MH61285) and a core grant to the Waisman Center from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (U54 HD090256). ALR was supported by an Emotion Research Training Grant (T32 MH018931) from the National Institute of Mental Health. Funders did not play any role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0243708
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PLoS ONE