
Can aggression be learned just by observing it? The Bobo doll experiment
The Bobo doll experiment. In the 1961 the Canadian psychologist Albert Bandura demonstrated, with an experiment that later became a cornerstone of social psychology, that children can learn complex behaviors, such asaggressioneven just through the simple observation of such behaviors in adults. This was not at all obvious in an era (the 1960s) that was dominated by behaviorist theories (behaviorism), ...








