How is the projection effect?

Projection effect is the tendency to attribute one's own characteristics to others. When we know and form an impression of others, we think that others also have similar characteristics to ourselves, projecting our feelings, will and characteristics on others and imposing them on others, that is, pushing up the cognitive obstacles of ourselves and others.

When the observer is very similar to the observed object, the observer will be very accurate, but this is not because their perception is accurate, but because the observed person is similar to himself at this time.

Therefore, their findings are correct.

Projection effect is a serious cognitive psychological deviation. Treating others and yourself dialectically and in two is the way to overcome the projection effect.

Extended data

There are two main forms of projection effect:

1, emotional projection, that is, thinking that other people's likes and dislikes are the same as their own, forcing the characteristics of others into their own established framework and understanding them according to their own way of thinking.

For example, if you like something, the topic you talk to others is always inseparable from it, regardless of whether others are interested or not. If you can't attract others to sing, you think others have lost face or don't understand yourself.

2, lack of objectivity in cognition, for example, some people like people or things they like more and more, and the more they look at the advantages; I hate people or things I don't like more and more, and the more I look at them, the more I feel that I have shortcomings.

Therefore, we show excessive praise and praise for people or things we like, and excessive accusation or even slander for people or things we don't like.

This psychological tendency to think that the people or things you like are beautiful and the people or things you hate are ugly, and to project your feelings on these people or things to beautify or uglify them, loses the objectivity of cognition in interpersonal communication, which leads to subjective assumptions and falls into the quagmire of prejudice.

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