vicariousness

vicarious | American Dictionary

vicarious
adjective
us/vɑɪˈkeər·i·əs/
experienced by reading or watching someone else do something:
This disaster movie will provide you with plenty of vicarious thrills.

Examples of vicarious

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The relations of children's emotion regulation to their vicarious emotional responses and comforting behaviors.
Vicarious experience represents a rich source of such occasions, which may thus come to govern my emotions almost as if they were stimuli for reflexes.
What kind of vicarious performance could this possibly inspire?
Seymour cannot escape the need for a vicarious atonement in order to meet the demands of justice.
Thus, vicarious reward creates an incentive to help the people whose experiences you choose as occasions for emotion, and to resist temptations to exploit them.
These provide vicarious role models against whom students can test their own self-constructions.
From a comparative and evolutionary perspective, the question is not whether nonhuman species have or have not a capacity for vicarious (empathic) experience.
This coding system does not attempt to separate empathy (a vicarious emotion similar to that of the victim) from sympathy (concern for the victim).
Vicarious selection explains some paradoxes in dioecious fig-pollinator systems.
We describe a mechanism that integrates vicarious experience with other goods of limited availability.
They may rate the vicarious pay-off against that of the currently prevailing strategy.
Vicarious liability, where the employer takes legal responsibility for the actions of its staff, provides some protection.
This vicarious subset is not cut out by the senses but by redundancies emerging from physical properties.
In the legal profession, this theory has been well stated in the law of torts as vicarious responsibility.
From eternity, in effect, the demands of justice have been met without the need for a vicarious atonement.
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