FIGURE 2.

Emotion recognition accuracy was lower for masked faces when children experienced a greater degree of social distancing as reported by parents. Parents reported on their degree of social distancing for three items (average depicted, see Table S1 for individual items). As before, as part of the DART, stimuli were masked child faces, unmasked child faces, masked adult faces, and unmasked adult faces. Masking was more strongly related to lower emotion recognition accuracy for children whose families engaged in a greater degree of social distancing during the pandemic.