ArticleScientific reports2023
Facial mimicry and metacognitive judgments in emotion recognition are distinctly modulated by social anxiety and autistic traits.
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- A proof of concept study on digital interventions for reducing socio-evaluative stress and anxiety in youth.Scientific reports · 2025Trial
- Altered Affective Egocentricity in Autism: Implications for Facial Emotion Perception.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2026Article
- The Anxious Mind: Examining the Conflicting Relationships Between Distinct Aspects of Social Anxiety and Social Cognition.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Deliberate Facial Mimicry As a Skill That Predicts Emotion Recognition Performance.Affective science · 2026Article
- General and Specific Facets of Anxiety: Psychometric Analysis and Impact on Cognitive Performance.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
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- Emotional Contagion and Autistic Traits: Disentangling Components of Social-Emotional Processing.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2026Article
- Face perception: a window into the social mind.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Individual differences in interoception and autistic traits share altered facial emotion perception, but not recognition per se.Scientific reports · 2024Article
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Abstract
Facial mimicry as well as the accurate assessment of one's performance when judging others' emotional expressions have been suggested to inform successful emotion recognition. Differences in the integration of these two information sources might explain alterations in the perception of others' emotions in individuals with Social Anxiety Disorder and individuals on the autism spectrum. Using a non-clinical sample (N = 57), we examined the role of social anxiety and autistic traits in the link between facial mimicry, or confidence in one's performance, and emotion recognition. While participants were presented with videos of spontaneous emotional facial expressions, we measured their facial muscle activity, asked them to label the expressions and indicate their confidence in accurately labelling the expressions. Our results showed that confidence in emotion recognition was lower with higher social anxiety traits even though actual recognition was not related to social anxiety traits. Higher autistic traits, in contrast, were associated with worse recognition, and a weakened link between facial mimicry and performance. Consequently, high social anxiety traits might not affect emotion recognition itself, but the top-down evaluation of own abilities in emotion recognition contexts. High autistic traits, in contrast, may be related to lower integration of sensorimotor simulations, which promote emotion recognition.
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