Some scholars explain the discomfort people feel with cameras by talking about the cameras as stand ins for people.

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Marler suspects that some of the workers hired stand-ins to take the skills tests for them.

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They often use deodorant sticks or whatever else is at hand as stand-ins for microphones.

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He simply stands in for an entire generation of male action stars who are also just stand-ins.

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Managers have had to fill the schedules with many inept stand-ins.

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People represent abstract concepts with more immediate physical stand-ins.

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There are faux stand-ins for each one.

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