Laboratory experiments cannot produce many real-world aggressive behaviors

Evidence

The scope of controlled experiments is limited, however. They cannot be used to produce types of aggressive behavior that are prohibited socially and ethically. Moreover, some forms of aggression are not reproducible in laboratory situations because they require a lengthy period of development or are the products of complex constellations of influences from different social systems operating interactively. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 719

Categorization

• XREF: Parallels the standing note on methodological tradeoffs between experimental control and natural validity that recurs across Milgrom’s institutional economics chapters. — connects to: Laboratory emergency experiments lack real threats and so offer low ecological validity. — John Drury, The role of social identity processes…, 58; Controlled experiments may not predict real-world intervention effects — Derek E. Holliday, Yphtach Lelkes, and Sean J. Westwood, Why Depolarization Is Hard: Evaluating…, 75