Albert Bandura

Canadian-American psychologist of social learning, self-efficacy, and the Bobo doll; Stanford faculty for six decades.

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The 1961 Bobo doll experiments showed children learn aggression by observation, not only direct conditioning.
Social Learning Theory (1977) and the self-efficacy construct tied behavior to belief in one's capability.
He taught at Stanford from 1953 until close to his death in 2021, becoming one of the most-cited psychologists.