"Because their heights and weights remain relatively unchanged after reaching their early 20s, it is easier to project their development," he said.
It's easy to project a symbolic relationship between zombies and rabies (or zombies and the pitfalls of consumerism), just as it's easy to project a symbolic relationship between vampirism and AIDS (or vampirism and the loss of purity).
"I think it's easy to project all these thoughts onto Barack Obama," Samuels said, a point the panelists were all too happy to prove.
But it's easy to project it back to the civilizing influence of Eleanor of Aquitaine in the 12th century, wherein rude and rank knights were domesticated by female wiles.
"It's easy to project our own feelings onto animals and that's a mistake," she told me, "but it's a worse mistake to think that we are up on some kind of pedestal and that animals can't also think, feel, and know".
Though this version of Roots ends with Laurence Fishburne, playing Alex Haley, stepping out of his office and into a vision of his noble ancestors, it's easy to project the struggle of Kunta, Kizzy, George and Tom as the same basic struggle African Americans are still fighting today.
For 2009, it's easy to project negative numbers for GDP of 2%-3% because the consumer overspent so much these past five years.
While a baby might have the same intense emotions, their communication is so vague and limited that it's easy to project some sweet and totally understandable issue as the cause of their weird, pterodactyl squawks.
Dr. Roberto Olivardia, a Harvard psychologist who studies male body image in relation to cultural norms, agrees the average male consumer finds porn featuring non-ideal bodies like Coxxx's more appealing as it's easier to project themselves into.
In some cases decisions were accepted to be their own, whereas in others it was easier to project this responsibility externally.
