Definition of "over-correct" [over-correct]

• Make excessive corrections for fear of making an error (verb)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "Mr. MARKS: By having so many foreclosures on the horizon, we're going to over-correct, and the market will go even lower than it would normally go, prices will just do a downward spiral, and we won't have a functioning market out there."
• "When us humans come out of a suboptimal experience, we tend to over-correct in the opposite direction in our next experience."
• "To simply let the housing market rapidly correct itself (or more likely over-correct) would result in massive societal disruption, possible violence and unnecessary suffering."