English Explanatory Dictionary

vicarious punishment

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A type of social learning in which a person is dissuaded from committing a certain act, as a result of seeing others punished for the same action.

Word forms

vicarious punishment vicarious punishments
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