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Interoception and Facial Emotion Perception1515to Trait interoceptive accuracy in our second model (path a, see Table S16 in the Supplemental Materials), and neither Trait interoceptive accuracy nor its interaction with Emotion category were significant predictors of Emotion recognition accuracy(path b, see Table S18 in the Supplemental Materials). Again, there was no meaningful change in outcomes if the control predictor Alexithymia was excluded from all models with Autistic traits as. The model fits of the mediation analysis, including (significant) effects that are unrelated to our predictors of interest, can be found in Tables S13-18 in the Supplemental Materials.Figure 3. Results of the mediation analysis in Experiment 2 with trait interoceptive accuracy as potential mediator explaining worse recognition of sad faces with higher autistic trait levels. While the coefficient for sad facial expressions in the significant interaction between Autistic traits and Emotion category was not significant, the slope of this effect was robustly negative, which is why we tested for a mediated effect (in line with the main analysis in Experiment 1).