surrogation

English

Noun

surrogation (countable and uncountable, plural surrogations)

1. The act or result of surrogating; replacement, substitution.
   • 1611, Iohn Speed [i.e., John Speed], “Edward the Second, […]”, in The History of Great Britaine under the Conquests of yͤ Romans, Saxons, Danes and Normans. […], London: […] William Hall and John Beale, for John Sudbury and George Humble, […], →OCLC, book IX ([Englands Monarchs] […]), paragraph 76, page 564, column 1:

     [T]he Queene [Isabella of France], vvhen ſhee vvas […] aduertiſed of her huſbands dethronization, ſhee outvvardly expreſſed ſo great extremity of paſſion (notvvithſtanding that at the ſame time ſhee vvas tolde of her ſonnes [Edward III of England's] ſurrogation) as if ſhee had beene diſtraught in her vvittes: […]

   1. (organizational psychology, business, management) A process by which a proxy measure for a phenomenon is mistaken for the phenomenon itself.
   2. (psychology) A process by which a person can predict their emotional and cognitive reactions to a phenomenon by observing the reactions of others who have already experienced that phenomenon.

Related terms

• subrogation

Translations

Translations

• Polish: surogacja (pl) f

See also

• (organizational psychology, business): Goodhart's law