Psychological theories have traditionally emphasized learning from direct experience. If knowledge and skills could be acquired only by trial and error, human development would be greatly retarded, not to mention exceedingly tedious and hazardous....

The acquisition of some novel behaviour solely by observing the behaviour of another animal, usually a CONSPECIFIC. There are many potential causes. The presence of a conspecific may produce social facilitation—for example, a satiated chick will...

Learning through watching someone else. See Sitting by...

Observational learning (also known as: vicarious learning or social learning or modeling) is learning that occurs as a function of observing, retaining and, in the case of imitation learning, replicating novel behavior executed by others. It is most...

The summer is typically a time when news slows down to a snail’s pace. People (including reporters) split for the beach and opt for the latest Pat Conroy novel rather than a daily read of the newspaper. But from the standpoint of Manhattan residential real...

Until now, the race for Mayor hasn't exactly seized the public's imagination, but at least two acute political observers expect high drama by November. D. A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, whose documentary The War Room changed the way Americans view politics, have begun filming Fernando...

The Observer learned last night that the next executive producer of ABC News' Nightline will be James Goldston, the British television journalist best known for having edited Martin Bashir's famously discomfiting Michael Jackson documentary, according to sources directly familiar with Goldston's contract negotiations. Goldston, currently...