biologization

plural biologizations

1. assimilation into a biological framework

   In this era of the increasing biologization of psychology and psychiatry ( Miller, 2010 ; Satel and Lilienfeld, 2013 ), authors may be tempted to assume that biological variables, such as parameters of brain functioning, “underlie” psychological phenomena.

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