Quotes About Overreactions

Policies are organizational scar tissue. They are codified overreactions to situations that are unlikely to happen again. They are collective punishment for the misdeeds of an individual.

Behavioral economics offers a plausible explanation for overreactions by the market. For example, a long period of bad performance can lead to stereotyping.

Although these domains appear to be remote from each other, the themes underlying anger and hatred in close relationships appear to be similar to those manifested by antagonistic groups and nations. The overreactions of friends, associates, and marital partners to presumed wrongs and offenses are paralleled by the hostile responses of people in confrontation with members of different religious, ethnic, or racial groups.

Terrorism, like theater, is a competition for audience. Shocking events are designed to capture attention, polarize, and provoke overreactions from their targets.

Did the resulting interaction work out well, or did your distorted thoughts, intense feelings, or overreactions leave you feeling upset? This is an important distinction, a general signal to you that a schema, rather than a useful response, is at play.

Our feelings are overreactions because our lived experiences of structural inequity are not commensurate with their [whites'] deluded reality.

Our feelings are overreactions because our lived experiences of structural inequity are not commensurate with their deluded reality.