Figure 1. Results of Experiment 1. (A) Effects of emotional valence and personal pronoun on prosocial behavior, emotional empathy, cognitive empathy, and liking. (B) Effects of emotional valence and personal pronoun on perceived sharing, meaning, and emotional arousal during the self-disclosure process. (C) Correlations among the increase in prosocial behavior, meaning, and liking under the first-person pronoun condition. *p < 0.05, ** p < 0.01, *** p < 0.001. Error bars represent standard deviations.

Figure 2. Results of Experiment 2. (A) Effects of emotional valence and personal pronoun on prosocial behavior, liking, emotional empathy, and cognitive empathy. (B) Correlations among the increase in prosocial behavior, cognitive empathy, and liking. (C) Mediating role of the increase in liking in the relationship between the increase in cognitive empathy and the increase in prosocial behavior. All estimates are standardized. *p < 0.05, ** p < 0.01, *** p < 0.001. Error bars represent standard deviations.