misintegrate

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verb

To integrate incorrectly.

Scrabble 15

Meanings

verbmisintegrate (third-person singular simple present misintegrates, present participle misintegrating, simple past and past participle misintegrated)

present singular third person misintegrates · participle present misintegrating · participle past misintegrated · past misintegrated

  1. To integrate incorrectly.

    Thus emotions may skew our attention to external objects or cause us to misintegrate perceptual awareness, thus leading to poor judgments.

    1999, Bryan Register, The Logic and Validity of Emotional Appeal in Classical Greek Rhetorical Theory: What is an Emotion? (masters thesis, University of Texas at Austin)
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    In the classical model, as Arlow's description makes clear, the patient misses — "misperceives, misintegrates, and misresponds" (1985, p. 526).

    2009, Stephen A. Mitchell, Relational Concepts in Psychoanalysis, page 299

    Contrasting with earlier findings, the conceptual framework reveals that service employees may not only integrate these customers' resources but also either misintegrate or not integrate them.

    2016 April 11, Loïc Plé, “Studying customers' resource integration by service employees in interactional value co-creation”, in Journal of Services Marketing, volume 30, number 2

    Misintegration may be an alternative mechanism of MP as it does not imply monitoring failure and it may increase MP. Reynolds (2018) found that implicitness only increased MP among participants did not misintegrate.

    2020, Reed Miller Reynolds, Why Does Misinformation Persist? Cognitive Explanations of the Implicit Message Effect (PhD Dissertation, Michigan State University)

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*mey-?
  2. Proto-Indo-European*meyth₂-
  3. Proto-Germanic*missaz
  4. Proto-Germanic*missa-
  5. Proto-West Germanic*missa-
  6. Old Englishmis-
  7. Middle Englishmys-
  8. Englishmis-
  9. Englishintegrate
  10. Englishmisintegrate

From mis- + integrate.

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Chicago

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