ABSTRACT
While Albert Bandura's Aggression: A Social Learning Analysis was popular and influential on the whole, there were some criticisms of the work. Most criticisms of the experimental nature of Bandura's research came from people in the discipline of sociology rather than psychology. Bandura's supporters argue that the media have ignored his theories because it has an interest in preventing the regulation and control of images. Under controlled conditions, he arranged for groups of children to watch an adult behaving aggressively towards a toy called a Bobo doll. Bandura first performed this experiment with live adults as role models; later he used video of adults performing the aggressive tasks. Bandura has been accused of "teaching" children to be violent. Some critics have attacked Bandura's ideas because of what they see as failings in the discipline of psychology. Cognitive theories of aggression and the social learning model are now widely accepted by many psychologists.
