The link between interoception, emotion, and theory of mind. (A) The Movie for the Assessment of Social Cognition (MASC) was administered (Dziobek et al., 2006), in which participants watched a 15-min movie about a social interaction divided into short clips. After viewing each clip, they were presented with a multiple choice question requiring them to infer the mental state of one character. Only one of four answers was correct. Performance was quantified separately for emotional (e.g., “What is Sandra feeling?”) and non-emotional (e.g., “What is Michael thinking?”) questions. (B) Interoceptive accuracy was positively correlated with overall MASC score (rs = .31, P = .008, left panel), driven by a significant association between interoception and emotional items (rs = .41, P < .001, middle panel). However, there was no such association between interoception and the non-emotional items (rs = .03, P = .80, right panel) and the two correlations were significantly different (z = 2.38, P = .017).