Vicarious may refer to:
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Vicariousness Vicariousness refers to qualities or scenarios wherein one experiences another person's life, through imaginative or sympathetic participation.
There are various examples whereby the social phenomenon of vicariousness may be observed. These includ ...
, experiencing through another person
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Vicarious learning
Observational learning is learning that occurs through observing the behavior of others. It is a form of social learning which takes various forms, based on various processes. In humans, this form of learning seems to not need reinforcement to ...
, observational learning
In law
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Vicarious liability
Vicarious liability is a form of a strict, secondary liability that arises under the common law doctrine of agency, ''respondeat superior'', the responsibility of the superior for the acts of their subordinate or, in a broader sense, the res ...
, a term in common law
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Vicarious liability (criminal)
The legal principle of vicarious liability applies to hold one person liable for the actions of another when engaged in some form of joint or collective activity.
History
Before the emergence of states which could bear the high costs of maintai ...
, a term in criminal law
Religion
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Vicarious atonement
Substitutionary atonement, also called vicarious atonement, is a central concept within Christian theology which asserts that Jesus died "for us", as propagated by the Western classic and objective paradigms of atonement in Christianity, which r ...
, Christian doctrine
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Vicarious baptism
Baptism for the dead, vicarious baptism or proxy baptism today commonly refers to the religious practice of baptizing a person on behalf of one who is dead—a living person receiving the rite on behalf of a deceased person.
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, baptism for the dead
Science and technology
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, transformation in the self of a trauma worker or helper that results from empathic engagement with traumatized clients and their reports of traumatic experiences.