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 ...

Among the classic tales we tell psychology students every semester is that of the fabled Bobo doll. In the typical story, young children are brought to a psychology laboratory. There, they watch adult ...

Among the classic tales we tell psychology students every semester is that of the fabled Bobo doll. In the typical story, young children are brought to a psychology laboratory. There, they watch adult ...

On July 26, the world lost a great scientist. Albert Bandura, one of the most eminent psychologists of the 20th century, passed away in his home in Stanford, California, at the age of 95. In 2002, the ...

In the early 1960s, psychologist Albert Bandura conducted a series of now-famous experiments known as the Bobo Doll Experiments, forever changing how we understand learning and aggression. Bandura ...

Have you ever wondered why some people lash out? Is that tendency for aggression something they're born with, or could it be ...

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. Austrian ...

One of psychology's trailblazing social scientists started his life of learning on a farm in Mundare, Alta., before going on to redefine the world's understanding of factors that influence how we ...

This is the last in a three-part series on the legacy of Albert Bandura. Read the first one here and the second one here. Why do some students set ambitious goals and others don’t? It’s hard to think ...

Social learning theory is really a combination of two other kinds of learning theories. On the one hand, there is the cognitive learning theory, which states that the learning of an individual is ...