Albert Bandura quotes

Accomplishment is socially judged by ill defined criteria so that one has to rely on others to find out how one is doing.
- Albert Bandura

When people are not aiming for anything in particular or when they cannot monitor their performance, there is little basis for translating perceived efficacy into appropriate magnitudes of effort.
- Albert Bandura

Judgments of adequacy involve social comparison processes.
- 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 attribute their failures to insufficient effort, whereas those of comparable skills but lower perceived self-efficacy ascribe their failures to deficient ability.
- Albert Bandura

People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier, more effective and more successful than those who lack faith in their ability to effect changes in their lives.
- Albert Bandura

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

When actions are followed by events that are not causally related to the prior acts, people often erroneously perceive contingencies that do not, in fact, exist.
- Albert Bandura

Gaining insight into one's underlying motives, it seems, is more like a belief conversion than a self-discovery process.
- Albert Bandura

Persons who have a strong sense of efficacy deploy their attention and effort to the demands of the situation and are spurred by obstacles to greater effort.
- 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

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

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

By exercising control over a few healthy habits, people can live longer, healthier lives and slow the process of aging.
- Albert Bandura

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

In the self-appraisal of efficacy, there are many sources of information that must be processed and weighed through self-referent thought.
- Albert Bandura