@article{3478031,
    title = "Albert Bandura's experiments on aggression modeling in children: A psychoanalytic critique",
    author = "Evangelia P. Galanaki and Konstantinos D. Malafantis",
    journal = "Frontiers in Psychology",
    year = "2022",
    volume = "13",
    number = "-",
    pages = "988877",
    publisher = "Frontiers",
    doi = "https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.988877",
    keywords = "aggression, modeling, children, Bandura, psychoanalysis, identification with the aggressor, introjection of the aggressor, seduction",
    abstract = "This study aimed to approach Bandura's experiments on aggression modeling in children from the psychoanalytic perspective. A variety of psychoanalytic formulations were used to conceptualize the underlying processes and the phenomenology of children's imitation of aggressive acts. These formulations are not supported by research data, a fact that may be regarded also as a limitation of this study. However, they are based on the multitude and richness of clinical observations in the field of Psychoanalysis, which has an undeniably remarkable contribution to the understanding and treatment of human aggression."
}