Vicarious satisfaction

For pharmaceutical physicians involved in drug development (a large subset of the specialty), there are also product-related satisfactions. These can be relatively vicarious (e.g. a reduction in spontaneous... 

Social scientists are clearly not immune from this sort of involvement with their subject matter. The researcher who, in spite of himself, hopes that the phenomenon wfU take a particular form in order to prove his theories or give him some other more ideological satisfaction, is only the more obvious example of this and 1 cannot claim that 1 always viewed the Mods and Rockers without any such involvement. When the object of study is deviance, there is the risk of other sorts of involvement. As one researcher notes Many criminologists have an intense (and perhaps vicarious) personal interest in the criminal exploits of their subjects. Many are intrigued voyeurs of the criminal world. ... 

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