Seeing faces, when faces can‘t be seen: Wearing portrait photos has a positive effect on how patients perceive medical staff when face masks have to be worn

• Martin Wiesmann ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: mwiesmann@ukaachen.de

  Affiliation Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Neuroradiology, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8261-5513

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• Christiane Franz,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Neuroradiology, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4301-8150

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• Thorsten Sichtermann,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Neuroradiology, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany

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• Jan Minkenberg,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Neuroradiology, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6926-810X

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• Nathalie Mathern,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Neuroradiology, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0289-0743

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• Andrea Stockero,

  Roles Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Neuroradiology, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany

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• Elene Iordanishvili,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Neuroradiology, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany

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• Jessica Freiherr,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany, Sensory Analytics, Fraunhofer Institute for Process Engineering and Packaging IVV, Freising, Germany

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• Julian Hodson,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Faculty of Business and Economics, Leuphana University of Lueneburg, Lueneburg, Germany

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• Ute Habel,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany

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• Omid Nikoubashman

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Neuroradiology, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany

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