Face masks less effective than sunglasses in masking identity

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In a series of face memory experiments, we find that sunglasses impair face memory more than sanitary face masks. Consistency between memory encoding and retrieval also matters. Read the paper here!

What does this mean to policymaking and eyewitness reliability? Read this short article.

Because of an ongoing debate on mask ban, our study has been widely shared on social media (X/Twitter) and covered in news media, including CounterPunch and Forbes.

Metric: https://nature.altmetric.com/details/145263930

 

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