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Chapter 7198Table 1. continuedMethod Key findings5 Sample: (1) N = 99, online; (2) N = 100, labTask: After viewing, direct labelling of spontaneous, dynamic facial expressions (anger, happiness, fear, sadness, neutral)+ lab: heartbeat discrimination task Measures: Emotion recognition, confidence in recognition, perceived emotional intensity, trait interoceptive accuracy/sensibility + lab: facial muscle activity (%u201cfrowns%u201d/%u201csmiles%u201d), cardiac interoceptive accuracySelf-reported traits:(1) Autism: M =17.05 [3-34]; (2) Autism: M = 17.30 [4-38]%u2022 Recognition of anger (Experiment 1) and recognition of sadness (Experiment 2) were worse with higher autistic trait levels%u2022 Across both experiments, self-reported interoceptive accuracy did not explain worse recognition of specific emotional expressions with higher autistic levels%u2022 Self-reported interoceptive accuracy, objective (cardiac) interoceptive accuracy and facial mimicry were not systematically associated with emotion recognition accuracy%u2022 Yet, higher self-reported interoceptive accuracy, and less robustly also higher autistic trait levels, were linked to higher perceived emotional intensity of neutral expressions as well as more confidence in labelling them %u2022 While increases in facial muscle activations were more strongly linked to perceived emotional intensity with higher self-reported interoceptive accuracy, the opposite was observed for higher autistic trait levels6 N = 107; clinical sample: Autism: n = 40; Social anxiety: n = 27; Control: n = 40Tasks: (1) Passive viewing and, (2) Labelling of five spontaneous, dynamic facial expressions (anger, happiness, fear, sadness, neutral)Measures: Facial muscle activity (%u201cfrowns%u201d/%u201csmiles%u201d), skin conductance, cheek temperature, emotion recognition, confidence in recognition, perceived emotional intensity, self-reported interoceptive accuracy/attentionCompared to controls%u2026%u2022 Higher attention to bodily signals was shared in autism and social anxiety%u2022 Self-reported interoceptive accuracy was, in contrast, reduced in both conditions%u2022 Emotion recognition accuracy (anger, fear, sadness), perceived intensity of expressions (anger, fear happiness), confidence in emotion recognition (all including neutral) and mimicry of happy expressions were reduced in autism %u2022 While no robust evidence for altered facial emotion perception or altered physiological resonance was observed, with higher physiological arousal, sad facial expressions were perceived as more intense in social anxiety%u2022 Facial mimicry of anger was less strongly linked to perceiving higher emotional intensity in autism, which may be driven by lower self-reported interoceptive accuracy