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ˌover-compenˈsation
Also as one word.
[over- 29 b. Cf. G. überkompensation.]
A term used in psychological analysis by A. Adler to denote the exaggerated striving for power, etc., that can activate someone suffering from a severe sense of inferiority; an exaggerated response of making allowance or amends for something; more than equitable compensation.
1917Psychol. Bull. XIV. 207 Adler thought he had discovered ‘a remarkable relationship between somatic inferiority and somatic psychic over-compensation’. 1917Glueck & Lind tr. Adler's Neurotic Constitution (1921) i. i. 4 This fetal character..furnishes the increased possibility for compensation and over-compensation. 1932Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. Apr. 347 Occasionally, over⁓compensation for this error [in colour memory] seems to be taking place. 1941J. S. Huxley Uniqueness of Man xi. 228 Bias of this type has the additional danger that those who make an effort to discount it may readily swing into over-compensation—a bias of opposite sign. 1955T. H. Pear Eng. Social Differences vi. 138 Theories of compensation and over-compensation for inferiority-complexes. 1969V. H. Vroom in Lindzey & Aronson Handbk. Social Psychol. (ed. 2) V. 220 The evidence reported concerning overcompensation and undercompensation pertains to its short-term effects on performance. 1977D. Clark Gimmel Flask vi. 106 Her over-compensation in over-spending may be due to her disappointment. |