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proliferation
proliferation In psychology, proliferation usually refers to the spread of multiple concepts or labels in an area of research, especially when some may overlap heavily without being clearly distinct.
In psychology, proliferation usually refers to the spread of multiple concepts or labels in an area of research, especially when some may overlap heavily without being clearly distinct. It can also describe the related problem of a broad single label being used for several partially different phenomena.