ABSTRACT “Concept creep” is the gradual semantic expansion of harm-related concepts
such as bullying, mental disorder, prejudice, and trauma. This review presents a synopsis of …

Some aspects of psychiatrization can be understood as forms of concept creep, the
progressive expansion of concepts of harm. This article compares the two concepts and …

Purpose How “mental disorder” should be defined has been the focus of extensive
theoretical and philosophical debate, but how the concept is understood by laypeople has …

The paper focuses on diachronic evaluation of semantic changes of harm-related concepts
in psychology. More specifically, we investigate a hypothesis that certain concepts such as …

Over the past century, the concept of trauma has substantially broadened its meanings in
academic and public discourse. We document four directions in which this semantic …

Objective: The term “trauma” seems to have expanded from a narrow usage (referring
exclusively to extreme events such as rape and warfare) to a broad usage (encompassing …

Emerging methods for studying cultural dynamics allow researchers to investigate cultural
change with newfound rigor. One change that has recently attracted the attention of social …

Background What people consider to be a mental disorder is likely to influence how they
perceive others who are experiencing problems and whether they seek help for their own …

Reducing the spread of infectious viruses (eg, COVID‐19) can depend on societal
compliance with effective mitigations. Identifying factors that influence adherence can inform …

Recent years witnessed significant progressin many downstream tasks in natural language
processing (NLP) such as machine translation, part-of-speech tagging, language modelling …