Practice wherein an undeserving party is singled out for unmerited negative treatment, generally by someone or something more powerful than themselves. See also: projection.
SCAPEGOATING: "All the children joined in scapegoating the unpopular boy."
Cite this page: N., Sam M.S., "SCAPEGOATING," in PsychologyDictionary.org, April 28, 2013, https://psychologydictionary.org/scapegoating/ (accessed February 6, 2023).
