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  • verb Present participle of psychologize.

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Examples

  • But I'm not interested in psychologizing the critics.

    A Short Critique of Bradley Monton's Paper 2009

  • But I'm not interested in psychologizing the critics.

    2009 March - Telic Thoughts 2009

  • The ideas we export often have at their heart a particularly American brand of hyperintrospection -- a penchant for "psychologizing" daily existence.

    DJ Jaffe: Mental Health Kills the Mentally Ill 2010

  • And I think the readiness to substitute that kind of psychologizing and sociologizing, in place of simple empathy or even basic politeness, is interesting.

    On intersections 2008

  • I'm less interested in quibbling about that, though, than in your thoughts on the broader issues I touch on in this post--"psychologizing" monsters, etc.

    Why I Despise Psychological "Twist" Endings 2007

  • There I believe he is indulging in the kind of "psychologizing" that we once associated with semispurious M.D.S. who dabbled on the confines between literature and psychiatry.

    He Never Had a Mistress O'Brien, Justin 1966

  • The ideas we export often have at their heart a particularly American brand of hyperintrospection - a penchant for "psychologizing" daily existence.

    Neuroanthropology 2010

  • Leftists have been "psychologizing" those who disagree with them since at least 1950, but the claims have never stood up to scrutiny

    GREENIE WATCH 2010

  • He also had harsh words for the "psychologizing" of the rather stern conclusions drawn by Estonians on the Georgian situation. r example, President Tarja Halonen said last week on YLE's A-Studio TV that Estonians were suffering from post-Soviet stress.

    A Step At A Time 2008

  • "psychologizing" of education at the expense of knowledge and Sigmund Freud's propagation of the "guilt-urge."

    Phi Beta Cons on National Review Online Candace de Russy 2010

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