The influence of the mother's presence on children's doll play aggression.
- 1 November 1957
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in The Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology
- Vol. 55 (3) , 304-308
- https://doi.org/10.1037/h0047448
Abstract
"Twenty children were observed in two sessions of doll play. The first session involved the child and an experimenter. During the second session, the child''s mother was an audience for one group and an adult female, not previously known to the child, watched the sessions of the second group. As is usual in doll play, boys are more aggressive than girls. Each of the ten children observed by their mothers were more agressive in the second than in the first session. Eight of the ten children watched by a stranger decreased their aggressions in the second session. The findings are discussed in terms of modifications of the displacement theory of aggression.Keywords
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