0 experienced as a result of watching, listening to, or reading about the activities of other people, rather than by doing the activities yourself:
She took a vicarious pleasure in her friend's achievements.
1 experienced by reading or watching someone else do something:
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).
