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Chapter 386To sum up, we confirmed existing evidence that the interpretation of emotional expressions depends on both the modality of the expression as well as the affective content. However, even if only information from the face or the body was available, emotion signals were still accurately perceived. Given that these situations become more frequent due to digitalization or safety measures during the COVID-19 pandemic, it is reassuring to know that emotion recognition as an essential process is not severely affected. Using static and posed expressions, we found limited evidence for a physiological signature of discrete emotions in the observer. The robust effects which we found might occur as a result of social cues eliciting strong motivational tendencies (e.g. SCL peaks in response to tears or angry faces) or embodied simulation of frequently observed expressions (e.g. EMG responses to happy faces). Based on recent perspectives on social cognition, an actual alignment in emotional states, which goes beyond emotion recognition, might however only happen in a %u2018real%u2019 social context. As a consequence, in order to describe a link between the sharing of emotions on different levels of observation (experiential and physiological), future studies should involve interactive paradigms and examine the role of variables indexing an individual%u2019s access to internal signals. A mechanistic understanding could eventually inform the development of interventions which target the identification of other%u2019s emotions and, thus, facilitate building social connections.