Albert Bandura Quotes

Perceived self-inefficacy predicts avoidance of academic activities whereas anxiety does not

Dualistic doctrines that regard mind and body as separate entities do not provide much enlightenment on the nature of the disembodied mental state or on how an immaterial mind and bodily events act on each other

It is widely assumed that beliefs in personal determination of outcomes create a sense of efficacy and power, whereas beliefs that outcomes occur regardless of what one does result in apathy

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

If there is any characteristic that is distinctly human, it is the capability for reflective self-consciousness.

Humans are producers of their life circumstance not just products of them.

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

The difficulty in judging what type of behavior works well arises not only because a given course of action does not always produce the outcomes. Similar outcomes can occur for reasons other than the person’s actions, which further complicates inferential judgment. Effects that arise independently of one’s actions distort the influence of similar effects produced by the actions, but only on some occasions. Given a strong cognitive set to perceive regularities, even chance joint occurrences of events can be easily misjudged as genuine relationships of low contingent probability

This has increased with the tremendous technological advances in communications. We have a vast new world of images brought into our sitting rooms electronically. Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience. This has increased with the tremendous technological advances in communications. We have a vast new world of images brought into our sitting-rooms electronically.

Such self-referent misgivings creates stress and undermine effective use of the competencies people possess by diverting attention from how best to proceed to concern over personal failings and possible mishaps

Once established, reputations do not easily change.

People are much more likely to act on their self-percepts of efficacy inferred from many sources of information rather than rely primarily on visceral cues. This is not surprising because self knowledge based on information about one’s coping skills, past accomplishments, and social comparison is considerably more indicative of capability than the indefinite stirrings of the viscera