An example of projection is when a person, such as Chris, frequently cheats on her partner because she suspects that he is already cheating on her, thereby attributing her own unacceptable desires to him.

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Projection is a defense mechanism in which an individual denies their own unconscious feelings by attributing them to someone else.

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Spielman, R. M., Jenkins, W. J., & Lovett, M. D. (2020, April 22). Psychology (2nd ed.). OpenStax. https://openstax.org/books/psychology-2e/pages/1-introduction

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