Concept Creep: Psychology's Expanding Concepts of Harm and Pathology
Abstract
Many of psychology's concepts have undergone semantic shifts in recent years. These conceptual changes follow a consistent trend. Concepts that refer to the negative aspects of human experience and behavior have expanded their meanings so that they now encompass a much broader range of phenomena than before. This expansion takes “horizontal” and “vertical” forms: concepts extend outward to capture qualitatively new phenomena and downward to...
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Title
Concept Creep: Psychology's Expanding Concepts of Harm and Pathology
Published Date
Jan 2, 2016
Journal
Volume
27
Issue
1
Pages
1 - 17
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