Definition of "overgeneralization" []

• The act of overgeneralizing. (noun)
• An instance of overgeneralizing. (noun)

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• "New Scientist reports on the research of Princeton University's Alexander Todorov, who finds that snap judgments are based on an 'overgeneralization' of an evolved need to read facial expressions for signs of danger."
• "This is exactly the kind of overgeneralization and escalation that we’re talking about here."
• "On a subject ” repression and its relationship to memory and trauma ” which deserves our most serious and even-handed consideration, Frederick Crews has indulged in the exact kind of overgeneralization and irresponsible assertion which so incenses him."