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. But the original experiments had a twist that most people ...

The Bobo doll studies were useful as a scientific demonstration of imitative learning. Granted, most people in the general public probably were aware kids imitated, but psychology at the time was ...

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.

He was most known for his Bobo doll experiment, in which children mimicked adults in attacking an inflatable doll. The work challenged basic tenets of psychology. By Erica Goode Albert Bandura, a ...

Albert Bandura, eminent psychologist known for Bobo doll experiment, dies at 95 July 30, 2021 More than 3 years ago Dr. Albert Bandura, shown here in 1999, was a preeminent psychologist of his ...

Eminent psychologist Albert Bandura passed away recently at the age of 95 on 26 July. He brought focus to the dynamism of social learning and its importance to the expression of the self. How much of ...

Those kids that watch the adult attack the Bobo doll are more likely to swat the Bobo doll themselves when given the chance. Thus, kids learn to be aggressive by watching adult models.