Albert Bandura Quotes

In any given instance, behavior can be predicted best by considering both self-efficacy and outcome beliefs . . . different patterns of self-efficacy and outcome beliefs are likely to produce different psychological effects

There is a universal need to exercise some kind of power, or to create for one's self the appearance of some power, if only temporarily, in the form of intoxication.

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

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

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

People are never able to outperform their self-image.

The basis of good manners is self-reliance.

The British vice is overthinking before we speak, which is really annoying. I love the way that, in America, people are more straightforward. The American vice would be sometimes speaking too loudly. You can always hear American people on the trains!

Self-appraisals of efficacy are reasonably accurate, but they diverge from action because people do not know fully what they will have to do, lack information for regulating their effort, or are hindered by external factors from doing what they can

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

Every man has a mob self and an individual self, in varying proportions.

It is only before those who are glad to hear it, and anxious to spread it, that we find it easy to speak ill of others.

The basis of good manners is self-reliance. Necessity is the law of all who are not self-possessed.

It is as commendable to think well of oneself when alone, as it is ridiculous to speak well of oneself among others.

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

Your self-image controls your performance; see yourself as confident and in complete control

"Believe in yourself" - that makes sense. You should believe in yourself - you should believe that you're capable of great things - but you would hope that somebody would have some sort of self-awareness.

Indeed there are many competent people who are plagued by a sense of inefficacy, and many less competent ones who remain unperturbed by impending threats because they are self-assured of their coping capabilities

Nothing Exposes our true self more than how we treat each other in the home.

The effects of outcome expectancies on performance motivation are partly governed by self-beliefs of efficacy

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

I would speak up if I see someone being rude to someone.

They travel in groups. You never see an Asian by their self.

Behavior must also be adequately assessed under appropriate circumstances. Ill-defined global measures of perceived self-efficacy or defective assessments of performance will yield discordances. Disparities will also arise when efficacy is judged for performances in actual situations but performance is measured in simulated situations that are easier to deal with than the actualities

The oil corporations spend a lot of money to get, say, the tar sands pipeline through, but nobody's - you know, there are definitely environmentalists being paid - but a lot of people are acting for something other than financial compensation. So if the tar sands pipeline doesn't get made, it's because a huge amount of people are doing something that doesn't involve remuneration, money, etc., because we're not actually the self-interested financial instruments that economists like to imagine we are.