An example of assimilative projection.

86 children ranging in age from 5 to 14 were asked "How old do you think Peter Pan was?", after seeing the Walt Disney cartoon film, Peter Pan. For the entire group, the Pearson r for their ages and the guessed age for Peter Pan was .51. "Sharing imaginatively in Peter's adventures, the child presumably feels close to Peter and therefore perceives Peter as resembling himself." (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)