Variations in face experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic affect infants’ preference for their mother’s face

• Megumi Kobayashi ,

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

  * E-mail: mkobayashi@human.niigata-u.ac.jp

  Affiliation Department of Psychology, Faculty of Humanities, Niigata University, Niigata, Japan,

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5218-1403

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• Machi Sugai,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Psychology, Faculty of Letters, Chuo University, Tokyo, Japan,

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• So Kanazawa,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Psychology, Faculty of Integrated Arts and Social Sciences, Japan Women’s University, Tokyo, Japan

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• Masami K. Yamaguchi

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

  Affiliation Department of Psychology, Faculty of Letters, Chuo University, Tokyo, Japan,

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