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How the fear of COVID-19 changed the way we look at human faces
Do we look at persons currently or previously affected by COVID-19 the same way as we do with healthy ones? In this eye-tracking study, we investigated how participants (N = 54) looked at faces of individuals presented as “COVID-19 Free”, “Sick with COVID-19”, or “Recovered from COVID-19”. Results s...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8088764/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33987036 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11380 |
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author | Federico, Giovanni Ferrante, Donatella Marcatto, Francesco Brandimonte, Maria Antonella |
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description | Do we look at persons currently or previously affected by COVID-19 the same way as we do with healthy ones? In this eye-tracking study, we investigated how participants (N = 54) looked at faces of individuals presented as “COVID-19 Free”, “Sick with COVID-19”, or “Recovered from COVID-19”. Results showed that participants tend to look at the eyes of COVID-19-free faces longer than at those of both COVID-19-related faces. Crucially, we also found an increase of visual attention for the mouth of the COVID-19-related faces, possibly due to the threatening characterisation of such area as a transmission vehicle for SARS-CoV-2. Thus, by detailing how people dynamically changed the way of looking at faces as a function of the perceived risk of contagion, we provide the first evidence in the literature about the impact of the pandemic on the most basic level of social interaction. |
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spelling | pubmed-80887642021-05-12 How the fear of COVID-19 changed the way we look at human faces Federico, Giovanni Ferrante, Donatella Marcatto, Francesco Brandimonte, Maria Antonella PeerJ Neuroscience Do we look at persons currently or previously affected by COVID-19 the same way as we do with healthy ones? In this eye-tracking study, we investigated how participants (N = 54) looked at faces of individuals presented as “COVID-19 Free”, “Sick with COVID-19”, or “Recovered from COVID-19”. Results showed that participants tend to look at the eyes of COVID-19-free faces longer than at those of both COVID-19-related faces. Crucially, we also found an increase of visual attention for the mouth of the COVID-19-related faces, possibly due to the threatening characterisation of such area as a transmission vehicle for SARS-CoV-2. Thus, by detailing how people dynamically changed the way of looking at faces as a function of the perceived risk of contagion, we provide the first evidence in the literature about the impact of the pandemic on the most basic level of social interaction. PeerJ Inc. 2021-04-29 /pmc/articles/PMC8088764/ /pubmed/33987036 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11380 Text en © 2021 Federico et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited. |
spellingShingle | Neuroscience Federico, Giovanni Ferrante, Donatella Marcatto, Francesco Brandimonte, Maria Antonella How the fear of COVID-19 changed the way we look at human faces |
title | How the fear of COVID-19 changed the way we look at human faces |
title_full | How the fear of COVID-19 changed the way we look at human faces |
title_fullStr | How the fear of COVID-19 changed the way we look at human faces |
title_full_unstemmed | How the fear of COVID-19 changed the way we look at human faces |
title_short | How the fear of COVID-19 changed the way we look at human faces |
title_sort | how the fear of covid-19 changed the way we look at human faces |
topic | Neuroscience |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8088764/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33987036 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11380 |
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