In a post-COVID-19 world, people who perceive themselves as less attractive than others are more likely to keep wearing masks when they’re highly motivated to make a good impression.
That’s according to a recent study published in Frontiers in Psychology.
“Our results consistently demonstrated that self-perceived unattractive individuals were more willing to wear a mask, as they believed it would benefit their attractiveness,” the authors noted in the report.
These are the same people who went out and protested while everyone else was on lockdown. I suspect that there is another reason:
‘Unattractive individuals’ wear masks more often than others: Study