Albert Bandura

Dualistic doctrines that regard mind and body as separate entities do not provide much enlightenment on the nature of the disembodied mental…

— Albert Bandura

In social cognitive theory, perceived self-efficacy results from diverse sources of information conveyed vicariously and through social evaluation, as well as through…

— Albert Bandura

Success and failure are largely self-defined in terms of personal standards. The higher the self-standards, the more likely will given attainments be…

— Albert Bandura

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

— Albert Bandura

After people become convinced they have what it takes to succeed, they persevere in the face of adversity and quickly rebound from…

— Albert Bandura

People who regard themselves as highly efficacious act, think, and feel differently from those who perceive themselves as inefficacious. They produce their…

— Albert Bandura

It's in our ability to selectively engage and disengage our moral standards, and it helps explain how people can be barbarically cruel…

— Albert Bandura

[Attributional] factors serve as conveyors of efficacy information that influence performance largely through their intervening effects on self-percepts of efficacy

— Albert Bandura