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Appendices264Julia Folz was born in Ulm (Germany) on December 23, 1993. Already during her time as student at the Robert-Bosch-Gymnasium in Langenau, she developed a strong interest in understanding the drivers of human behaviour. After her graduation in 2012, she therefore started a Bachelor%u2019s degree in Psychology at Heidelberg University. During her time as a Bachelor student, Julia got engaged in research as a student assistant in various departments of the Psychological Institute, including Social Psychology, Developmental and Biological Psychology, and a research group on self-regulation. She also explored research possibilities outside of academia, by joining the SINUS Markt-and Sozialforschung GmbH for a six-months internship. Her inspiring research internship stays at the Affective Brain lab at University College London and the Biological Psychology Department at the University of T%u00fcbingen eventually convinced her to continue her journey in academia. These internship experiences additionally fostered Julia%u2019s interest in studying physiological processes in the context of emotion. As a result, she decided to investigate the neurophysiological emotional response to aesthetic stimuli in her Bachelor thesis under supervision of Prof. dr. Hagemann, which she completed in 2016. In order to extend her knowledge and skills concerning experimental research, Julia joined a Master%u2019s degree in Neuro-cognitive Psychology at LMU Munich, for which she received a scholarship by the Max Weber Program, in the same year. Throughout her Master studies, Julia continued to work as a student assistant in the EEG & Behavior Lab at LMU. Her fascination with the description of dynamics in social interactions eventually led her to join the Research Group %u201cSocial Neuroscience%u201d at the Max-Planck-Institute of Psychiatry for her Master thesis in 2018. Under the supervision of Prof. dr. med. Leonhard Schilbach and dr. Dimitris Bolis, Julia investigated the role of alignment between real-time interacting individuals in decision-making on multiple levels, namely subjective experience, gaze and neural activity. In 2019, Julia joined the Comparative Psychology and Affective Neuroscience (CoPAN) lab at Leiden University to obtain a PhD in Cognitive Psychology under supervision of Prof. dr. Mariska Kret and dr. Milica Nikoli%u0107. Building up on her interests and experiences, her PhD project focused on physiological processes in the non-verbal communication of emotions. As potential mechanism of social interaction difficulties, she particularly zoomed in on alterations associated with autism and social anxiety in the embodiment of others%u2019 emotions and in its linkage to emotion perception. Julia%u2019s project involved a collaboration with Prof. dr. med. Katja K%u00f6lkebeck at the LVR hospital in Essen. There, PhD student Kristina Niki%u0107 conducted experiments with clinical samples,