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Also, people tend to overidentify with products they buy.

When writers overidentify with their child characters, both innocence and experience get cloying.

A scale has been developed to measure the intensity with which the syndrome's victims overidentify with celebrities.

"The problem in our country isn't that we overidentify trauma," said Ellen Gerrity, associate director for the national center.

I'm very concerned right now for young males, maybe even blond males, who overidentify with Owen Wilson.

"You don't want to overidentify Jews with negative images," Paul Salmons, the director of Holocaust education at London's Imperial War Museum, told me.

"Some parents overidentify with their children," said Dr. Teresa Peck, a professor of family and child clinical psychology at the California School of Professional Psychology in Alameda.

To the Editor: A March 14 Week in Review article, "Growling Over Dogs' Rights," makes American dog owners out to be neurotic zealots who overidentify with and certainly overindulge their canine companions.

Behind that rise in such violence during recent years, the experts say, are more involvement by fathers and mothers in their children's sports, greater pressure to see their offspring win athletic scholarships or big-money professional contracts, and a tendency to overidentify with the children, who, the parents hope, will become the sports stars they themselves never were.