In the 1960s, psychologist Albert Bandura and his colleagues conducted what is now known as the Bobo doll experiment. In it, they demonstrated that children may learn aggression through observation.

The Bobo Doll experiments are famous for establishing that kids who watch violent behavior are more likely to display violent tendencies.

The Stanford professor was known to generations of psychology students as the author of the seminal Bobo doll studies on aggression.

The Bobo doll studies showed that kids can learn through imitation without being directly reinforced. But why did they learn and what did they learn, exactly?

In experiments conducted in the early 1960s, Bandura presented preschool-age children with film footage of adults striking, kicking and otherwise abusing an inflatable clown called Bobo.

Bobo doll experiment An inflatable clown doll named "Bobo" was subjected to aggressive behaviour by adults. A set of nursery school children watched it. When one group of children engaged in violent ...

His Bobo doll experiment changed the way Western psychology understood the evolution of the behavioural self. Born 1925 in Mundare, Canada, to parents from Ukraine, Bandura worked on the Alaskan ...