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During the COVID-19 pandemic, most people wore face masks to protect themselves and the others. Whilst this was recommendable, unfortunately face masks represented a critical problem for deaf people by preventing lipreading. Moreover, the mouth region represents a critical source of information for inferring emotional states as well as for visually-based social first impressions. Visually-based first impressions may become even more relevant for a deaf person that cannot rely on verbal cues. In light of this, an interesting question is whether face masks impact on social inferences, such as trustworthiness judgments, in a similar vein in deaf and hearing individuals. Our results showed that overall deaf individuals performed similarly to hearing controls in discriminating different levels of trustworthiness in computer-generated faces manipulated for trustworthiness. However, deaf individuals judged faces with face masks to be overall less trustworthy than hearing participants. We interpret this finding as suggesting that for the deaf individuals, occluding the mouth area generates frustration and feelings of communication exclusion and this may result in less trustworthiness perceived in others.
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