Externalization

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'''Externalization''' may refer to:

* Externalization (migration), efforts by countries to prevent migrants reaching their borders * Externalization (psychology), Freudian psychology, an unconscious defense mechanism by which an individual projects their own internal characteristics onto the outside world. ** External memory (psychology) * Cost externalization, the socioeconomic practice of maximizing profits by off-loading indirect costs and forcing negative effects or ''externalities'' to a third party * Sound externalization, see virtual acoustic space

==See also== *External (disambiguation) *Externalizing disorder *Internalization (disambiguation)

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