Repressors project their denied traits onto others more than nonrepressors

Evidence

Repressors, who (Study 1) spend as little time as possible thinking about their own threatening traits and (Study 2 and Study 6) insist that they do not possess those traits (in spite of contrary evidence), are more likely than nonrepressors to interpret ambiguous behaviors of others in terms of those very traits (i.e., were more likely to project; Studies 3 and 4). — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 2356

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Civilized subjects project their own repressed mimetic impulses onto others as repellent remnants. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1426; the MOC “The Enemy-Making Machine: How Ourselves, the True, and Every Other Are Built from War”