misreaction

plural misreactions

1. countableuncountableInappropriate reaction.

   The rate of misreaction in the accident prone group appears higher than the rate in the non-accident group.

   1971, XVI. International Congress on Occupational Health, page 455

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   Very often, however, such misreaction is caused by external circumstances in an individual whose psychological structure is affected by constitutional or acquired pathological features.

   1935, Olof Kinberg, Basic Problems of Criminology, page 177

   And, of course, my impulsive misreaction created a far bigger mess — for my customers, for my parents, and for me — than my original mistake of not writing down who ordered what.

   2004, David Allyn, I Can't Believe I Just Did that, page 15

   Although specification errors can potentially have significant effects on tests of market misreaction (e.g., Heynen et al., 1994), the existing literature has not addressed the issue of how model misspecification may lead to conflicting findings on market misreaction.

   2012, Charles Bazerman, Chris Dean, International Advances in Writing Research, page 407