subject: The optimist, The Pessimist, and the Role of Peers [print this page] Although the incidence of projection will logically decline as your peers are more and more incongruent in relation to you. When you feel as though your perspective is the majority you will attribute other personality traits of yours upon your peers, or simply assume that because your peers share a similar perspective them are "half-full" of your traits. While being among peers of different perspectives will lead you to assume that they are "half-empty" of your traits. This is a projection cut-off, with projection leading to a feeling of collectivity with other peers, while its lack will lead to a barrier. This is the difference between feeling as though you are a superior minority or an average majority.
The optimist, The Pessimist, and the Role of Peers
