How does the presence of a surgical face mask impair the perceived intensity of facial emotions?

• Maria Tsantani ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: maria.tsantani@gmail.com

  Affiliation Department of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London, London, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4118-0031

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• Vita Podgajecka,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London, London, United Kingdom

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• Katie L. H. Gray,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom

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• Richard Cook

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London, London, United Kingdom, Department of Psychology, University of York, York, United Kingdom

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