Facial expressions and gestures: How communication has changed in masked times
A year of adapting — to lockdowns and job losses, isolation and separation, hardships and home offices, masking up and dressing down — has also seen a tectonic shift in how we simply say hello.
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Posted: Apr 10, 2021 6:00 AM CT | Last Updated: April 10
When we can't use facial information the way we normally would, we compensate in other ways, like raising eyebrows, nodding or emphasizing eye crinkles when smiling, experts say.(Efrem Lukatsky/The Associated Press)