ABSTRACT
Albert Bandura, the author of Aggression: A Social Learning Analysis, was born in Alberta, Canada in 1925. Aggression claims that aggression is a behavior that a person learns and that it develops early in life. By "imitation", Bandura means learning by copying someone else's behavior. When a child learns to speak, the mother often encourages copying by leaning close to the child so he or she can see how the mother's mouth shapes a word. Bandura's work is among the most cited scholarship since the birth of psychology as a discipline. Aggression is essential reading for anyone interested in social psychology. It formed the basis of Bandura's version of social learning theory, and it is often cited as the foundation of social psychology. Bandura used behaviorism as a starting point, and much of his work builds on it. At the time Bandura was writing Aggression in 1973, the world was in the grip of radical social change.
