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Physiological Resonance and Interpretation of Emotional Expressions733was observed for the body. Specifically, within the bodily expressions, the neutral expression was significantly better recognized than all emotional bodily expressions, except for fear. Fearful body expressions were better recognized than angry and happy bodily expressions. Finally, both angry and sad bodily expressions were more likely to be labeled correctly than their happy counterparts. In contrast, when emotions were presented on the face, happy facial expressions were best recognized, followed by angry facial expressions, and thirdly faces expressing fear, which received higher accuracy rates than sad facial expressions (all p-values %u2264 0.029). Lastly, neutral facial expressions were least well recognized. When comparing between modalities, there was no difference in the Odds for labeling sad facial and bodily expressions accurately. However, while angry, happy and fearful expressions were more likely to be accurately recognized when they were displayed on the face, neutral expressions were more easily recognized from the body (see Table 4 in Online Resource 2).Both emotion category and modality were significant predictors in the model on perceived emotional intensity, category: F(4, 5521) = 420.987, p < 0.001; modality: F(1, 5521) = 3.865, p = 0.049. The significant interaction between the two predictor variables highlighted their interdependency, F(4, 5521) = 37.339, p < 0.001 (see Fig. 3b and Table 5 in Online Resource 2). Within the facial expression modality, intensity ratings were lower for sad expressions compared to the three other emotions and both happy and fearful expressions received lower intensity scores than angry expressions but did not significantly differ from each other. In contrast, happy expressions received the second lowest intensity scores for the bodily expressions and were rated significantly lower in intensity than angry, sad and fearful expressions while these three did not significantly differ from each other. When comparing the two expression modalities, angry, happy, neutral and fearful expressions were all perceived as more intense when they were displayed on the face whereas there was no difference for sad expressions (see Table 6 in Online Resource 2).