People Quotes by Albert Bandura

Perceived self-efficacy influences the types of causal attributions people make for their performances

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People who are insecure about themselves will avoid social comparisons that are potentially threatening to their self-esteem

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Given appropriate social conditions, decent, ordinary people can be led to do extraordinarily cruel things.

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People's beliefs about their abilities have a profound effect on those abilities. Ability is not a fixed property; there is huge variablitiy…

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Psychology cannot tell people how they ought to live their lives. It can however, provide them with the means for effecting personal…

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People behave agentically, but they produce theories that afford people very little agency.

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In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-efficacy, struggle together with resilience to meet the inevitable obstacles and inequities of…

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People judge their capabilities partly by comparing their performances with those of others

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Such self-referent misgivings creates stress and undermine effective use of the competencies people possess by diverting attention from how best to proceed…

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The higher the level of people's perceived self-efficacy, the wider the range of career options they seriously consider, the greater their interest…

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Convictions that outcomes are determined by one's own actions can be either demoralizing or heartening, depending on the level of self-judged efficacy.…

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When people are not aiming for anything in particular or when they cannot monitor their performance, there is little basis for translating…

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People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier, more effective and more…

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Through their capacity to manipulate symbols and to engage in reflective thought, people can generate novel ideas and innovative actions that transcend…

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Perceived self-efficacy in coping with potential threats leads people to approach such situations anxiously, and experience of disruptive arousal may further lower…

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People who have a sense of self-efficacy bounce back from failure; they approach things in terms of how to handle them rather…

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From the social cognitive perspective, it is mainly perceived inefficacy to cope with potentially aversive events that makes them fearsome. To the…

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People who are burdened by acute misgivings about their coping capabilities suffer much distress and expend much effort in defensive action... they…

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Reasonably accurate appraisal of one's own capabilities is, therefore, of considerable value in successful functioning. Large misjudgments of personal efficacy in either…

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Many people who gain recognition and fame shape their lives by overcoming seemingly insurmountable obstacles, only to be catapulted into new social…

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People who underestimate their capabilities also bear costs, although, as already noted, these are more likely to take self-limiting rather than aversive…

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People's conceptions about themselves and the nature of things are developed and verified through four different processes: direct experience of the effects…

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People are much more likely to act on their self-percepts of efficacy inferred from many sources of information rather than rely primarily…

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Learning would be exceedingly laborious, not to mention hazardous, if people had to rely solely on the effects of their own actions…

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People not only gain understanding through reflection, they evaluate and alter their own thinking.

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People’s beliefs about their abilities have a profound effect on those abilities.

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When actions are followed by events that are not causally related to the prior acts, people often erroneously perceive contingencies that do…

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People who hold a low view of themselves [will credit] their achievements to external factors, rather than to their own capabilities.

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The satisfactions people derive from what they do are determined to a large degree by their self-evaluative standards

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If self-efficacy is lacking, people tend to behave ineffectually, even though they know what to do.

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Learning would be exceedingly laborious, not to mention hazardous, if people had to rely solely on the effects of their own actions…

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People with high assurance in their capabilities approach difficult tasks as challenges to be mastered rather than as threats to be avoided.

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By sticking it out through tough times, people emerge from adversity with a stronger sense of efficacy.

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Indeed there are many competent people who are plagued by a sense of inefficacy, and many less competent ones who remain unperturbed…

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Among the types of thoughts that affect action, none is more central or pervasive than people's judgments of their capabilities to deal…

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What people think, believe, and feel affects how they behave. The natural and extrinsic effects of their actions, in turn, partly determine…

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People regulate their level and distribution of effort in accordance with the effects they expect their actions to have. As a result,…

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Self-appraisals of efficacy are reasonably accurate, but they diverge from action because people do not know fully what they will have to…

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People infer high self-efficacy from successes achieved through minimal effort on difficult tasks, but they infer low self-efficacy if they had to…

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When experience contradicts firmly held judgments of self-efficacy, people may not change their beliefs about themselves if the conditions of performance are…

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