Trustworthiness appraisals of faces wearing a surgical mask during the Covid-19 pandemic in Germany: An experimental study

• Miriam Biermann ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Miriam Biermann, Anna Schulze

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Psychiatric and Psychosomatic Psychotherapy, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

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• Anna Schulze ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Miriam Biermann, Anna Schulze

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Anna.Schulze@zi-mannheim.de

  Affiliation Institute of Psychiatric and Psychosomatic Psychotherapy, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5584-154X

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• Franziska Unterseher,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Psychiatric and Psychosomatic Psychotherapy, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

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• Konstantina Atanasova,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Psychiatric and Psychosomatic Psychotherapy, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

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• Paulina Watermann,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Institute of Psychiatric and Psychosomatic Psychotherapy, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

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• Annegret Krause-Utz,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Psychology, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands

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• Dagmar Stahlberg,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Chair of Social Psychology, University of Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany

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• Martin Bohus,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Psychiatric and Psychosomatic Psychotherapy, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

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• Stefanie Lis

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Psychiatric and Psychosomatic Psychotherapy, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8051-2756

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