This study focused on social projection (SP) to outgroups. Two studies were conducted to show that SP to outgroups was greater than to ingroups when an issue is more relevant to the outgroup than to the ingroup and vice versa. These experiments were conducted for students of different schools (N1 = 92, N2 = 203). The results confirmed that students overestimated agreement with working adults when the topic was more relevant to working people. Also, when the topic was relevant to students, they overestimated agreement of other students relative to the working adults. These results suggested the relevance of the opinion was more important than perceived social distance when Japanese students refer to others.

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社会对群体的投射：日本学生指的是心理上遥远的其他人

这项研究的重点是对群体的社会预测（SP）。进行了两项研究表明，当问题与外部群体比与内部群体更相关时，对外部群体的SP大于对内部群体的SP，反之亦然。这些实验是针对不同学校的学生进行的（N1 = 92，N2 = 203）。结果证实，当话题与劳动者更相关时，学生高估了与劳动者的同意。同样，当话题与学生相关时，他们高估了其他学生相对于在职成年人的认同感。这些结果表明，当日本学生提及他人时，观点的相关性比感知的社会距离更为重要。