This study examines the impact of the similarity of prior experiences on spontaneousperspective-taking by comparing the explicit forgiveness scores towards the perpetrator among threegroups of participants (those with identical experiences, those with abstractly similar experiences, andthose with completely different experiences) following a negative interpersonal event. Additionally,the study explores the conscious characteristics of spontaneous perspective-taking by contrasting thesubjective assessment of participants regarding their own perspective-taking under different similarityconditions. The findings reveal that, except for those with completely different experiences, participantswith abstractly similar and identical experiences both showed forgiveness towards the perpetrator, withno significant difference in the degree of forgiveness. Furthermore, these two groups of participantswere also aware of their spontaneous emotional and cognitive perspective-taking, with similar levels ofawareness. This suggests that both abstractly similar and identical experiences can prompt individuals tospontaneously take others’ perspectives, and individuals are able to be conscious of this socially mentalprocess.