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Wearing Masks Generates Approach Motivation in Times of COVID-19

2025-12-11

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<title>Abstract</title> <p>Background With the global prevalence of COVID-19, governments recommended wearing face masks as a protective measure. Recent studies have found that face mask influences gaze perception, but the neural mechanism by which the masked face generates approach or avoidance motivation is still unclear. This study investigated whether wearing a mask produced motivation for approach or avoidan...

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Literature Corpus work: 1e0ac563-e55d-56aa-9d2c-6441943f0d91
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-8017396/v1

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