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Some users told us that, in certain situations like on longer journeys, it was easier to wear a standard fabric mask and briefly remove it from behind the ear in moments where it is essential to communicate. Etcoff, N. L. & Magee, J. J. Categorical perception of facial expressions. Cognition 44, 227–240 (1992). Some clear masks use anti-fogging or moisture-repellent coatings or materials, which could be worth a try. Simple clear vinyl is more likely to fog up.

Dunn, J. R. & Schweitzer, M. E. Feeling and believing: the influence of emotion on trust. J. Pers. Soc. Psychol. 88, 736–748 (2005). Hess, U. & Fischer, A. in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Communication (2017). https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228613.013.433Hess, U. & Fischer, A. Emotional mimicry as social regulation. Personal. Soc. Psychol. Rev. 17, 142–157 (2013). Leone, M. The semiotics of the medical face mask: east and west. Signs and Media, forthcoming. http://www.facets-erc.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Massimo-LEONE-2020-The-Semiotics-of-the-Medical-Face-Mask-Final-Version.pdf (2020). First, we have seen that standard, but not transparent, masks compromise the capability to recognize the emotion (albeit probably not the valence) on the basis of facial cues. Being able to see one’s facial movements is not only useful for the sake of knowing mental states. As mentioned above, emotional decoding is likely to involve facial mimicry, which, beside its role in emotion recognition, is also thought to play a role in fostering empathy 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. These expectations seem supported by a study conducted in Hong Kong after the SARS pandemic 62, reporting that primary care doctors visiting patients with a medical facemask were perceived on average as less emphatic, especially when subjects have been patients of the same doctor for a long time. It is thus safe to assume that the possible benefits of transparent masks extend beyond enabling verbal communication with sign language, which originally inspired their design, by also favoring empathy mediated by facial mimicry. Consequently, as the social impairments brought about by facemasks partially explains why some people refuse to employ them, by partially re-enabling social communication transparent masks could mitigate the skepticism toward wearing them. Moreover, as it has been shown that empathy is pivotal in promoting compliant behaviors toward physical distancing and mask wearing 63, by restoring the emotional display that scaffolds empathy, transparent facemasks may indirectly promote the diffusion of mask wearing itself. When fashion blogger Luke Christian, who also happens to be deaf, was a guest on BBC Radio 4, he spoke about face masks and how hard it is for the deaf community. "Since people now have to start wearing masks it’s made me feel a lot more anxious about going and about in public," he said. "Especially into shops because I just don’t know how I’m as a deaf person going to be able to understand people. Because I do rely on lip-reading, and facial expressions/facial movements play a big part in this as well. So if there’s big face masks covering half of people’s faces, then that is something that me personally, and lots of other deaf people, are really going to struggle with."

Some users told us they prefer a fully clear mask, as the ones with a transparent window still obscure some of the face, and some people felt that this didn't do enough to improve communication.

Data Availability Statement

Elfenbein, H. A. & Ambady, N. On the universality and cultural specificity of emotion recognition: a meta-analysis. Psychol. Bull. 128, 203–235 (2002). The experiment consisted of an on-line test (Qualtrics.com) composed by two distinct sessions. The first session (“ emotion recognition and trust attribution”) was aimed at evaluating the impact of SM and TM on emotion and trust attribution. The second session (“ re-identification task”) was aimed at investigating the impact of SM and TM in the capability to re-identify face identity. The entire study lasted 10 ± 4 min. Response times for each task and condition gave no significant results and were discarded from further analyses (Emotion Recognition: Mdn = 1.71 s. 95% C.I. [1.63, 1.81]; Trust Attribution: Mdn = 1.61 s. 95% C.I. [1.52, 1.70]; Recall: Mdn = 2.11 s. 95% C.I. [1.92, 2.23] ). Caruana, F. et al. A mirror mechanism for smiling in the anterior cingulate cortex. Emotion 17, 187–190 (2017).

Many cases of translucent skin simply occur due to genetics. If your father or mother have visibly pale or translucent skin, you most likely inherited it from them. It is likely that face masks will remain widespread in the NHS, as new guidance issued at the start of June states they will still be required in a number of settings, including cancer wards and critical care units, and staff may wear them in other areas depending on personal preference and local risk assessments. Wong, C. K. M. et al. Effect of facemasks on empathy and relational continuity: A randomised controlled trial in primary care. BMC Fam. Pract. 14, (2013). Lundqvist, D., Flykt, A. & Öhman, A. The Karolinska directed emotional faces—KDEF (Dep. Clin. Neurosci. Psychol. Sect . Karolinska Institutet, 1998).The necessary use of face masks to protect staff and patients has made communication difficult. It’s particularly true for clinicians and patients who are deaf or have a hearing loss and rely on being able to read lips. Their call comes after a planned pilot of transparent masks by the Department of Health and Social Care was cancelled.

A big question mark over these types of masks is how good they are at filtering particles. Unfortunately, we don't know yet as we haven't tested them. Roberson, D., Kikutani, M., Döge, P., Whitaker, L. & Majid, A. Shades of emotion: What the addition of sunglasses or masks to faces reveals about the development of facial expression processing. Cognition 125, 195–206 (2012).

Discussion

Palagi, E., Celeghin, A., Tamietto, M., Winkielman, P. & Norscia, I. The neuroethology of spontaneous mimicry and emotional contagion in human and non-human animals. Neurosci. Biobehav. Rev. 111, 149–165 (2020). Standard face coverings obscure facial expressions and prevent lip-reading. Clear face masks attempt to mitigate this issue. Robinson, K., Blais, C., Duncan, J., Forget, H. & Fiset, D. The dual nature of the human face: There is a little Jekyll and a little Hyde in all of us. Front. Psychol. 5, (2014). Given the dissociation between dynamic and static features encoded by the dorsal and ventral streams respectively, one could argue that such a model cannot account for our results, being all our stimuli static. However, despite the dorsal stream for faces is indeed typically triggered by dynamic facial expressions, Furl and colleagues 58 demonstrated that the presentation of static emotional expressions—as the ones used in our study—activated the same STS sectors typically activated by dynamic expressions, hypothesizing that static emotional expressions determine an “implied motion”, hence activating the same neuronal population encoding dynamic expressions. Implications Abudarham, N. & Yovel, G. Same critical features are used for identification of familiarized and unfamiliar faces. Vision Res. 157, 105–111 (2019).