Increasingly prevalent respiratory infectious diseases (eg, COVID-19) have posed severe
threats to public health. Viruses including coronavirus, influenza, and so on can cause …

The goal of this research was to provide an overview of the role of trust in determining
COVID-19 vaccine acceptance. Trust proved to be a key issue in all the strategic phases of …

Facial emotion recognition is crucial for social interaction. However, in times of a global
pandemic, where wearing a face mask covering mouth and nose is widely encouraged to …

The use of surgical-type face masks has become increasingly common during the COVID-19
pandemic. Recent findings suggest that it is harder to categorise the facial expressions of …

Facial expressions, and the ability to recognize these expressions, have evolved in humans
to communicate information to one another. Face masks are equipment used in healthcare …

Wearing face masks has become a usual practice in acute infection events inducing the
problem of misinterpreting the emotions of others. Empirical evidence about face masks …

Covering faces with masks, due to mandatory pandemic safety regulations, we can no
longer rely on the habitual daily-life information. This may be thought-provoking for healthy …

Face masks are now worn frequently to reduce the spreading of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
Their health benefits are undisputable, but covering the lower half of one's face also makes it …

Emotional intelligence is the automatic detection of human emotions using various
intelligent methods. Several studies have been conducted on emotional intelligence, and …

Face masks have proven to be key to slowing down the SARS-Cov2 virus spread in the
COVID-19 pandemic context. However, wearing face masks is not devoid of “side-effects”, at …