“…First, we sought to evaluate whether wearing a face mask impacts posing preferences with regard to the bias favoring three-quarter over frontal presentations, and within the former with regard to the bias in favor of three-quarter poses displaying the left over the right cheek. Both biases have been amply documented in the literature (Bruno & Bertamini, 2013;Bruno, Bertamini & Protti, 2015;Bruno, Bode & Bertamini, 2017;Lindell, 2017;Manovich, Ferrari & Bruno, 2017) and are generally interpreted as due to the right-hemispheric specialization for emotional expression (Nicholls, Clode, Wood & Wood, 2019; see also Zeng, Wang, Silveira et al, 2022). Second, we aimed at evaluating how face mask may impact on pictorial facial prominence, the ratio of the area occupied by the face to that occupied by the whole body.…”