Illustration: Kieran Blakey

The Nuance

I See You but I Don’t: How Masks Alter Human Connection

They can disrupt our ability to communicate and connect. But there are ways to overcome a mask’s necessary downsides.

Markham Heid
Elemental
Published in
5 min readMay 21, 2020

In a series of pioneering studies conducted at the University of California, Los Angeles during the 1960s, a psychologist named…

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Markham Heid
Elemental

I’m a long-time contributor at TIME and other media orgs. I write mostly about health. I grew up in Michigan, but these days I live in southwest Germany.