Albert Bandura was a Canadian-American psychologist born in 1925 in Alberta, Canada. He studied at the University of British Columbia, graduating in 1949. While working at Stanford University, Bandura conducted influential research on social learning theory and observational learning. His most famous experiment was the Bobo doll experiment in 1961, which demonstrated that children learn aggression by observing and imitating others. Bandura's work established social learning theory and social cognitive theory, which expanded to include cognitive factors like self-reflection.