He remarked that although "one must be careful not to overgeneralise", he suspected that there were a series of features which "occur sufficiently often" in those nature religions known to recorded scholarship to constitute a pattern.

The cognitive psychologists did discover, however, that part of the problem was a tendency to overgeneralize from past events to current ones.

Of course Professor Jameson kept saying it was wrong to overgeneralize. "

Katz's only major misstep is his tendency to overgeneralize.

"I tend to overgeneralize when I refer to the planetside resistance.

We overgeneralize and jump to conclusions.

I didn't mean to overgeneralize.

To overgeneralize for a moment, the 60's sense of anarchic community gave way to anarchic private enterprise - every ego for itself.

To overgeneralize a bit, the first list describes things that parents are; the second list describes things that parents do.

exaggerate and overgeneralize the differences between the ingroup and the outgroup (to enhance group distinctiveness)

I read your source and it isn't wrong about Democrats and Republicans wanting to overgeneralize or people wanting to believe certain things, because that is true of people everywhere.

Orville W. Taylor contends in the Journal of Negro History that Blassingame had a tendency to overgeneralize and make "unsubstantiatable claims to originality and uniqueness".

They also argued for the importance of teaching people not to overgeneralize or stereotype individuals based on average group differences, because of the significant overlap of people with varying intelligence between different races.

His books were particularly concerned with the changes in the lives of "ordinary people", and he felt it was important not to overgeneralize, but always to distinguish the effects of a social event on different social classes.

The human proclivity for seeking confirmation rather than refutation (confirmation bias), the tendency to hold comforting beliefs, and the tendency to overgeneralize have been proposed as reasons for the common adherence to pseudoscientific thinking.

Likewise, Dr. Shapiro allows that the criticism in Science does apply to those psychologists and psychiatrists "who take ordinary clinical tests and then overgeneralize them to try to answer legal questions like competency to stand trial, or innocent by reason of insanity."

Research suggests that children overgeneralize stress rules when they are reproducing novel Spanish words and that they have a tendency to stress the penultimate syllables of antepenultimately stressed words, to avoid a violation of nonverb stress rules that they have acquired.

He argued that each was relevant in a certain context-i.e., a set of interrelated conditions within the explicate order-rather than having unlimited scope, and that apparent contradictions stem from attempts to overgeneralize by superposing the theories on one another, implying greater generality or broader relevance than is ultimately warranted.

; his tendency to ignore inconvenient facts (like failing to cite interstate transportation of guns, when noting that Washington, D.C., has stringent gun control laws but still suffers from a high crime rate), and his quickness to overgeneralize ("Most tenured positions in higher education are now held by passionate advocates of the anti-Vietnam War movement").