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

2. The Bobo Doll Experiment In another old-school psychology experiment, researchers conducted the Bobo doll study on children by showing them adults interacting with a particular doll.

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.

The 1961 Bobo Doll experiment, conducted by Stanford professor Albert Bandura, demonstrated that children will interact with others in the precise manner that was modeled for them by adults.

Albert Bandura, a pscyhologist, died recently at age 95. He is perhaps best known for his Bobo doll experiment, which provided new insights into the roots of this behavior in children: ...

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 Claudia Hammond presents a series looking at the development of psychology. Albert Bandura's ground-breaking 1961 Bobo Doll experiment explosed the dangers of imitative behaviour ...

For decades, Bandura's "Bobo Doll" studies have been a cornerstone of our understanding of aggression. But what if that understanding is all wrong?