Psychology

Kids who watched an adult punch a doll went and punched it themselves

In Albert Bandura's 1961 Bobo doll experiment, children who watched an adult attack an inflatable clown doll imitated the exact aggressive acts when later left alone with it, while children who saw no aggressive model rarely did. The study became a foundational demonstration that behaviour can be learned purely by observation, with no direct reward or punishment involved.

Albert Bandura, Dorothea Ross, Sheila A. Ross, Transmission of Aggression through Imitation of Aggressive Models — Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 1961

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