Emotional impression of a transparent mask

We examined the impression of persons wearing a mask with a printed mouth (smiling mask) and found that they evoked strong unpleasantness and eeriness. The current study will investigate emotional impressions of persons wearing a transparent mask, in which a sheet of a polyethylene terephthalate covers around a mouth, and thus the mouth is visible. We hypothesized that the realism consistency between facial parts should be high in the transparent mask condition and thus persons wearing the transparent mask will evoke less unpleasantness and eeriness compared with those wearing the smiling mask.