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misintegrate en · VERB

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *mey-? Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂-der. Proto-Germanic *missaz Proto-Germanic *missa- Proto-West Germanic *missa- Old English mis- Middle English mys- English mis- English integrate English misintegrate From mis- + integrate.

Meanings

1. To integrate incorrectly.
   • 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):
   • 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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