Proverbio, Alice MadoCarbon, Claus-ChristianSokolov, Arseny A.Coello, YannPavlova, Marina A.2025-07-212025-07-212025https://fis.uni-bamberg.de/handle/uniba/59076Facemasks have become a familiar item due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but there is a multitude of further face coverings, with which we are confronted day-to-day and which impact our social cognition and interaction, for instance, scarves, headscarves, or bandanas. Such items might be used as protection, symbols of religious faith, or due to a mere fashion aspect, but all of them cover parts of a face, so evidently reducing the overall amount of information we can gather. As such, coverings can also be used as symbolic items, they can be psychologically charged, so it is not only about a possible loss of information and shift of attention but also the potential adding of associations, perceptual biases, and prejudicesengface coveragefacemaskfacial expressionface processingsocial cognitionemotionssocial neurosciencemental disorderspsychotherapysocial interactionbody languagesocial space150bookurn:nbn:de:bvb:473-irb-590769