Individual differences in interoception and autistic traits share altered facial emotion perception, but not recognition per se.

ABSTRACT: While alterations in both physiological responses to others' emotions as well as interoceptive abilities have been identified in autism, their relevance in altered emotion recognition is largely unknown. We here examined the role of interoceptive ability, facial mimicry, and autistic traits in facial emotion processing in non-autistic individuals. In an online Experiment 1, participants (N = 99) performed a facial emotion recognition task, including ratings of perceived emotional intensity and confidence in emotion recognition, and reported on trait interoceptive accuracy, interoceptive sensibility and autistic traits. In a follow-up lab Experiment 2 involving 100 participants, we replicated the online experiment and additionally investigated the relationship between facial mimicry (measur

SUBMITTER: Folz J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11339312 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature