Concept Creep: Psychology's Expanding Concepts of Harm and Pathology

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Harm inflation: Making sense of concept creep (2020, methodology): “The original presentation of concept creep (N. Haslam, 2016a) exemplified the phenomenon using case studies of six concepts drawn from the fields of clinical (addiction, mental disorder, trauma), developmental (abuse, bullying), and social psychology (prejudice).”
The enigma of male eating disorders: A critical review and synthesis. (2017, background): “Research into muscularity-oriented disordered eating is needed in order to avoid “concept creep” – wherein psychological concepts expand and risk pathologizing the otherwise normal and extremely broad spectrum of human behavior (Haslam, 2016).”
Is the Dark Triad common factor distinct from low Honesty-Humility? (2018, background): “Given recent concerns with ‘‘concept creep” (Haslam, 2016), we here examine whether the latent Dark Triad construct demonstrates any statistical uniqueness.”