Transmission of Aggression Through Imitation of Aggressive Models
Author(s)
Bandura, Albert; Ross, Dorothea; Ross, Sheila A.
Abstract
In a previous study children imitated the behavior of a model in the presence of the model. The present study investigated the degree of imitation when the model was not present. Degree to which like-sexed model behavior would be followed was also studied. Nursery school children exposed to aggressively behaving models tended to imitate not only their aggressiveness but other behavior as well. There was some confirmation of like-sex imitation. The results were related to the psychoanalytic theory of identification.
