ALBERT  BANDURA

Aggression

Aggression is defined as intentional infliction of personal harm and physical destruction. It includes individual forms of aggression as well as institutional and international violence. Social cognitive theory addresses the three major aspects of aggressive modes of behavior. They include the origins of aggressive behavior; what provokes people to aggressive acts; what determines adoption of aggression as a primary mode of behavior. In accord with the broad psychosocial perspective, aggressive modes of behavior are prevented and modified at the individual and systemic levels.

Bandura, A. (1979). Psychological mechanisms of aggression. In M.VonCranach, K. Foppa, W. LePenies, & D. Ploog (Eds.), Human ethology: Claims and limits of a new discipline. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Bandura, A. (2004). The role of selective moral disengagement in terrorism and counterterrorism. In F. M. Mogahaddam & A. J. Marsella (Eds). Understanding terrorism: Psychological roots, consequences and interventions (pp. 121-150). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association Press.
Bandura, A. (1999). The power of social modeling: The effects of Television Violence. Bing Nursery School Distinguished Lecture Series. Stanford University.

RESEARCH

Bandura, A., Ross, D., & Ross, S. A. (1963). Imitation of film-mediated aggressive models. Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 66, 3-11.
Bandura, A., Ross, D., & Ross, S. A. (1961). Transmission of aggression through imitation of aggressive models. Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 63, 575-582.
Bandura, A, Underwood, B., & Fromson, M. E. (1975). Disinhibition of aggression through diffusion of responsibility and dehumanization of victims. Journal of Research in Personality, 9, 253-269.
Bandura, A. (1965). Influence of models reinforcement contingencies on the acquisition of imitative responses. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1, 589-595.
Caprara, G. V., Scabini, E., Barbaranelli, C., Pastorelli, C., Regalia, C., & Bandura, A. (1998). Impact of adolescents’ perceived self-regulatory efficacy on familial communication and antisocial conduct. European Psychologist, 3, 125-132.
Caprara, G.V., Regalia, C., & Bandura, A. (2002). Longitudinal impact of perceived self- regulatory efficacy on violent conduct. European Psychologist, 7, 63-69.
Bandura, A., C. Barbaranelli, G. V. Caprara, & C. Pastorelli (1996). Mechanisms of moral disengagement in the exercise of moral agency. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 71, 364-374.
Bandura, A., Caprara, G. V., Barbaranelli, C., Pastorelli, C., & Regalia, C. (2001). Sociocognitive self-regulatory mechanisms governing transgressive behavior. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 80, 125-135.

VIDEOS

Model Mugging.

BOOKS

Bandura, A. (1973). Aggression: A social learning analysis. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall.
Bandura, A., & Walters, R. H. (1959). Adolescent aggression. New York: Ronald Press.
Bandura, A. (2023). Social Cognitive Theory: An agentic perspective on human nature. New Jersey: Wiley & Sons.