Psychological Study of Child Aggression and Destructive Impulse | 1950's

Published 2020-12-09
Film demonstrates a projective technique for the study of aggression and destruction in children, showing how differently two children between four and five years of age from similar backgrounds respond to invitations to break balloons. From the Vassar college, which did a lot of research of this sort.

All Comments (21)
  • @flair4146
    Interesting how these videos just POPPED in my recommended
  • I wish someone wouldve asked marvin why he was so cautious about not popping the balloons yet had no problem hitting tapping pushing etc the adult for popping the balloon. They are focused on him not having agression toward the ballon yet he did toward human.
  • @porkchop2218
    I was like Marvin. He obviously loved balloons. And wanted nothing to with breaking balloons. When I was little I thought it was naughty to break balloons and that the only people that broke balloons didn’t like them. He gave him every opportunity to break balloons and he didn’t want to. He should have been given a big balloon to take home to play with. 🎈I like to keep them in the air and the way they sounded too.
  • Man in the suit: What do you want to do with the balloons? Marvin: (Thinking: Bruh, you brought me here to a room of balloons.) I don't know, you tell me! 🤣 Great answer, Marvin!
  • @Gem_Am_I
    The last little boy looked at all the popped balloons on the floor and said “ Somebody will pick them up” 😂😂😂😂😂😂
  • @mery5989
    they already sounded way to confident of what the experiment would mean regardless of any variables in the explanation, but when he started talking... it's completely driven, he only thing this means is how the kid interpreted what the guy talking wanted to do in the game
  • Dear lord he kept telling him...oh dont you want to break a balloon..Did not let him make his own decision...Just let him go..I would push him again...Still he stood his ground..the little feller.
  • Perhaps I would have been the odd kid, but I’d have ZERO interest in busting a balloon... I never cared for the obnoxiously loud sound or the resulting pinch you’d get from the latex snapping against your skin. I’d be like, “get me out of this hell hole you morons... I want to go color or play with playdough”
  • There was a lot of suggestion Being used To the children by the adults. I think we can all agree that children love balloons in general and also love Popping them, whether they're the ones doing it or someone else does it. I don't see how this reflects on their aggression whatsoever. I think this was a terrible case Study.
  • @sofiabravo1994
    This video looks like it was made exactly in 1950 no lot passed 1951. The style of the dresses were very 40s still!
  • @symonsa8466
    I tried to understand instructor's mental health 😂😂😂
  • @baracc10
    As a young boy, I’d be more like Marvin. I hated balloons being popped. I would play with them and I never popped them. I wouldn’t hit or shove someone if they popped a balloon. I left the room
  • @terealfa83
    interesting how girls where only used for setting up the room, the balllons, but a Men was used to do the experiment.