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- not comparablehuman sciencesOverly expansive and outgoing, tending toward chaos and confusion.
Fanaticism, however, chooses no favorites, as Hoffer (1951) concludes, and so we presently turn to hyperexpansive prejudice.
1990, Kirk J. Schneider, The paradoxical self2 more examples
In cases of on-going, chronic trauma, on the other hand, Schneider suggests that the child may become unable to counteract, and thereby conform to their hyperconstrictive or hyperexpansive pressures.
2003, Mick Cooper, Existential Therapies, →ISBN, page 86Whether an individual in HIV-related psychotherapy manifests a hyperexpansive or hyperconstricted existential position vis-à-vis death anxiety, the therapeutic goal is to bring about movement to a more centered position in which the individual is able to accept the seriousness of the illness while also continuing to go about living as fully as possible within the constraints of the disease.
2004, Florence W. Kaslow, Robert F. Massey, Comprehensive Handbook of Psychotherapy, →ISBN, page 317 - not comparableHaving an extreme tendency to expand.
Further, these fragments in 4Q158 are not merely harmonistic, but also hyperexpansive.
2008, Sidnie White Crawford, Rewriting Scripture in Second Temple Times, →ISBN, page 532 more examples
For all the public focus on terrorism after the September 11 2001 attacks on the United States, resource constraints emerged as one of the most important strategic challenges for a hyperexpansive American security posture.
2016, Jeremi Suri, Benjamin Valentino, Sustainable Security: Rethinking American National Security Strategy, →ISBNThe sensation of a hyperexpansive, globalized, and omnipotent form of power, the new Leviathan of Empire, is counterbalanced by the inherent possibilities, or even revolutionary potentials, within the monster itself.
2016, Mitchell Dean, Kaspar Villadsen, State Phobia and Civil Society: The Political Legacy of Michel Foucault, →ISBN - not comparablemathematicsPertaining to a class of operators closely related to the theory of negative definite functions on abelian semigroups.
As a consequence hyperexpansive multiplication operators are investigated..
2015, Yousef Estaremi, “Unbounded weighted conditional type operators on L^p spaces”, in arXiv
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