overpersonalize
English
Etymology
over- + personalize
Alternative forms
- overpersonalise
Verb
overpersonalize (third-person singular simple present overpersonalizes, present participle overpersonalizing, simple past and past participle overpersonalized)
- To attribute the too much of the cause of something to personal decisions and willpower, and not enough to other factors.
- 1974, Samuel A. Culbert, The organization trap and how to get out of it, page 140:
- Putting this approach into action requires resisting our inclination to overpersonalize our role in problems and miss the systemwide issues.
- 1996, Lucille L. Andreozzi, Child-Centered Family Therapy, →ISBN, page 44:
- Research on abusive parent-child relationships has found that parents often overpersonalize the child's behavior, attributing more negative than positive motivations to the child.
- 2003, Doc Childre & Deborah Rozman, Transforming Anger, →ISBN:
- A second key skill for sustaining your emotional coherence is learning not to overpersonalize your deficits, since this just makes the energy drain worse.
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