Table 1.
Story Information.
Table 2.
Illustration of story modification.
Fig 1.
Immersion scores in stories with 1st and 3rd person pronouns referring to the protagonist.
Participants on average scored higher on the immersion questionnaire when reading 1st person pronoun narratives compared to 3rd person pronoun narratives. Error bars represent 95% confidence intervals.
Fig 2.
Subscales of the immersion questionnaire.
The subscales were emotional engagement, narrative understanding, transportation, attention, and mental imagery. Differences between stories with 1st and 3rd person pronouns referring to the protagonist were significant for the transportation and the mental imagery subscale.
Fig 3.
Effect of Pronoun type on ranking of the stories for appreciation.
The effect of pronoun type on appreciation of stories as measured by ranking of all stories by how much participants liked them was statistically at p = 0.06. Note that Ranking is a non-normally distributed variable, so medians are plotted instead of means. Error bars represent 95% confidence intervals.
Fig 4.
Peaks in EDA during reading stories with 1st and 3rd person pronouns referring to the main character.
Number of peaks and valleys were computed using a peak detection algorithm in which peaks are defined as local maxima surrounded by valleys (d = 0.15). Number of peaks was significantly higher when participants read 3rd person compared to 1st person pronoun stories at p = 0.06. Error bars represent 95% confidence intervals.