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maladaptive /ˌmaləˈdaptɪv /adjective technicalNot adjusting adequately or appropriately to the environment or situation: maladaptive coping strategies such as increasing consumption of alcohol...- They also describe ways of cultivating positive and agentic feelings and modifying maladaptive interpersonal patterns of expression.
- The cycle of success and the maladaptive cycle are one behavioral system
- Therapists help identify these maladaptive behaviors and how to counteract them.
Derivativesmaladaptation /malədapˈteɪʃ(ə)n/ noun ...- Despite her present weight of 25.4 kg and height of 136.5 cm, no psychosocial maladaptations have been reported.
- Carl Zimmer links to a paper on maladaptation, and briefly discusses the deficiencies in the ‘design’ of the eye.
- The manipulations of the malaria parasite are remarkable adaptations, but the appendix is, to a great extent, an maladaptation.
maladapted adjective ...- The former says that we are maladapted to our social conditions - evolution hasn't caught up yet.
- The rising prevalence of obesity is a sign of just how maladapted we are to modern life.
- Prior weightings cannot determine current ones, since the former may be maladapted to the new situation.
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