misreaction

English

Etymology

From mis- +‎ reaction.

Noun

misreaction (countable and uncountable, plural misreactions)

1. Inappropriate reaction.
   • 1935, Olof Kinberg, Basic Problems of Criminology, page 177:

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

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

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

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

     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.

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

     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.