Do Face Masks Help or Hinder Empathy? Ft. Dr. Jelena Ristic Purposeful Empathy Hosted by Anita Nowak

Watch this episode to learn about the importance of visual social
cues in cognition and how face-masks impact our ability to
connect with one another.


Professor of Psychology, Jelena Ristic, is an expert in human
attention and social cognition. In this episode, she discusses
how opaque face masks (such as those typically worn throughout
COVID-19) impacts our capacity to discern emotions. She also
unpacks other fascinating findings from research conducted
 in her lab about the role facial cues have in human
communication.


00:00 Introduction


00:23 About Dr. Jelena Ristic


01:44 About Jelena’s research on cognition and social
communication


07:15 What causes preferential bias in faces?


12:03 How we detect and discern social cues through facial
expressions


14:01 How familiarity plays a role in in communication


15:55 The combination between the cognitive and social components
in communication


17:50 What is the impact of face-masks on empathy?


19:26 The 6 basic emotions we can reliably recognize


22:22 Can transparent face-masks restore emotional recognition?


25:12 The broader societal impacts of wearing masks


30:13 Dr. Jelena Ristic’s Purposeful Empathy Story


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Video edited by David Tsvariani