Vicarious
Wikimedia disambiguation page
Vicarious may refer to:
Vicariousness, experiencing through another person
Vicarious learning, observational learning
In law
Vicarious liability, a term in common law
Vicarious liability (criminal), a term in criminal law
Religion
Vicarious atonement, Christian doctrine
Vicarious baptism, baptism for the dead
Science and technology
Vicarious (company), an artificial intelligence company
Vicarious Visions, a video game developer
Vicarious problem-solving, a rational approach to economic theory
Vicarious traumatization, transformation in the self of a trauma worker or helper that results from empathic engagement with traumatized clients and their reports of traumatic experiences.
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