AGGRESSION: a social learning analysis by Albert Bandura

Author:Albert Bandura
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: International Psychotherapy Institute
Published: 2019-06-14T00:00:00+00:00

chapter four

Maintaining Conditions

The analysis of aggression has centered thus far on the development of injurious patterns of behavior and their various antecedent determinants. The third major feature of the social learning formulation is concerned with the conditions that sustain aggressive responding. Maintenance of behavior depends in large part on prevailing conditions of reinforcement. The principle that behavior is strongly controlled by its consequences applies equally to aggression. Aggressive actions that are rewarded tend to be repeated, whereas those that are unrewarded or punished are generally discarded. Thus, aggressive modes of response, like other forms of social behavior, can be produced, eliminated, and reinstated by altering the effects they produce.

This chapter discusses the wide range of rewards and punishments that determine whether or not people will behave aggressively under given circumstances. In traditional theories of learning, reinforcement influences are largely confined to the effects of external outcomes impinging directly upon the performer. Social learning theory distinguishes three forms of reinforcement control of aggression: the influence of direct external reinforcement, vicarious or observed reinforcement, and self-reinforcement.

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