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General Discussion2217might result in interpreting others%u2019 expressions as more emotionally charged. When combined with a negatively biased perception of others%u2019 expressions, an embodied path to interpreting others%u2019 emotions may become maladaptive in social anxiety. Taken together, I believe that an investigation of the resonance of others%u2019 emotional expressions and its link to their interpretation is a promising approach to a better understanding of social interaction difficulties in both autism and social anxiety, despite the divergence in the specifics of alterations in the two conditions. Minding the body in research on cognitive processing has already proven its necessity in various fields, from low-level visual processing to high-level meta-cognitive processes. Given the intrinsically embodied nature of emotions as well as humans being social creatures, studying the physiological resonance of others%u2019 emotions from a functional perspective promises a better understanding of how we navigate our social world.