Albert Bandura

Judgments of adequacy involve social comparison processes

— Albert Bandura

Once established, reputations do not easily change.

— Albert Bandura

One cannot afford to be a realist.

— Albert Bandura

Self-appraisals are influenced by evaluative reactions of others.

— Albert Bandura

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

— Albert Bandura

A theory that denies that thoughts can regulate actions does not lend itself readily to the explanation of complex human behavior.

— Albert Bandura

Regression analyses show that self-efficacy contributes to achievement behavior beyond the effects of cognitive skills

— Albert Bandura

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

— Albert Bandura

Even noteworthy performance attainments do not necessarily boost perceived self-efficacy

— Albert Bandura

Perceived self-efficacy and beliefs about the locus of outcome causality must be distinguished

— Albert Bandura

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

— Albert Bandura

Fortunately, most human behavior is learned observationally through modeling from others.

— Albert Bandura

Such knowledge is probably gained in several ways. One process undoubtedly operates through social comparison of success and failure experiences. Children repeatedly…

— Albert Bandura

To the extent that children with similar characteristics achieve comparable performance levels, using the performances of similar peers is likely to yield…

— Albert Bandura

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

— Albert Bandura

Self efficacious children tend to attribute their successes to ability, but ability attributions affect performance indirectly through perceived self-efficacy

— Albert Bandura

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

— Albert Bandura

Freedom [should not be] conceived negatively as exemption from social influences or situational constraints. Rather...positively as the exercise of self-influence to bring…

— Albert Bandura

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

— Albert Bandura

The evaluative habits developed in sibling interactions undoubtedly affect the salience and choice of comparative referents in self-ability evaluations in later life

— Albert Bandura

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

— Albert Bandura

Perceived self-efficacy also shapes causal thinking. In seeking solutions to difficult problems, those who perceived themselves as highly efficacious are inclined to…

— Albert Bandura

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

— Albert Bandura

Behavior must also be adequately assessed under appropriate circumstances. Ill-defined global measures of perceived self-efficacy or defective assessments of performance will yield…

— Albert Bandura

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

— Albert Bandura

If you look at our theories of social pathology and then at the dismal conditions in which children grow up in our…

— Albert Bandura

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

— Albert Bandura

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

— Albert Bandura

The difficulty in judging what type of behavior works well arises not only because a given course of action does not always…

— Albert Bandura

Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience.

— Albert Bandura

Accomplishment is socially judged by ill defined criteria so that one has to rely on others to find out how one is…

— Albert Bandura

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

— Albert Bandura

Misbeliefs in one's inefficacy may retard development of the very subskills upon which more complex performances depend

— Albert Bandura

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

— Albert Bandura

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

— Albert Bandura

Perpetrators absolve their harmful behavior as serving worthy causes.

— Albert Bandura

Forceful actions arising from erroneous beliefs often create social effects that confirm the misbeliefs

— Albert Bandura

Incongruities between self-efficacy and action may stem from misperceptions of task demands, as well as from faulty self-knowledge

— Albert Bandura

The performances of others are often selected as standards for self-improvement of abilities

— Albert Bandura

To grant thought causal efficacy is not to invoke a disembodied mental state

— Albert Bandura