Top 80 Albert Bandura Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Perceived self-efficacy influences the types of causal attributions people make for their performances.”

— Albert Bandura

52. “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

53. “Such knowledge is probably gained in several ways. One process undoubtedly operates through social comparison of success and failure experiences. Children repeatedly observe their own behavior and the attainments of others.”

— Albert Bandura

54. “A problem of future research is to clarify how young children learn what type of social comparative information is most useful for efficacy evaluation.”

— Albert Bandura

55. “Discrepancies between self-efficacy judgment and performance will arise when either the tasks or the circumstances under which they are performed are ambiguous.”

— Albert Bandura

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

— Albert Bandura

57. “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.”

— Albert Bandura

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

— Albert Bandura

59. “Self-percepts foster actions that generate information, as well as serve as a filtering mechanism for self-referent information in the self-maintaining process.”

— Albert Bandura

60. “Given a sufficient level of perceived self-efficacy to take on threatening tasks, phobics perform them with varying amounts of fear arousal depending on the strength of their perceived self-efficacy.”

— Albert Bandura

61. “Moreover, joint occurrences tend to be better recalled than instances when the effect does not occur. The proneness to remember confirming instances, but to overlook disconfirming ones, further serves to convert, in thought, coincidences into causalities.”

— Albert Bandura

62. “The human mind is generative, creative, proactive, and reflective – not just reactive.”

— Albert Bandura

63. “The presence of many interacting influences, including the attainments of others, create further leeway in how one’s performances and outcomes are cognitively appraised.”

— Albert Bandura

64. “What people think, believe, and feel affects how they behave. The natural and extrinsic effects of their actions, in turn, partly determine their thought patterns and affective reactions.”

— Albert Bandura

65. “It is no more informative to speak of self-efficacy in global terms than to speak of nonspecific social behavior.”

— Albert Bandura

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

— Albert Bandura

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

— Albert Bandura

68. “Misbeliefs in one’s inefficacy may retard development of the very subskills upon which more complex performances depend.”

— Albert Bandura

69. “It requires a strong sense of responsibility to be a good functionary. In situations involving obedience to authority, people carry out orders partly to honor the obligations they have undertaken. One must, therefore, distinguish between two levels of responsibility – duty to one’s superiors, and accountability for the effects of one’s actions.”

— Albert Bandura

70. “To the extent that children with similar characteristics achieve comparable performance levels, using the performances of similar peers is likely to yield more accurate self-appraisal than using the accomplishments of dissimilar peers.”

— Albert Bandura

71. “It requires conducive social conditions, rather than monstrous people, to produce heinous deeds.”

— Albert Bandura

72. “What is immoral to do is immoral to threaten.”

— Albert Bandura

73. “Self-appraisals are influenced by evaluative reactions of others.”

— Albert Bandura

74. “Analyses of moral disengagement mechanisms usually draw heavily on examples from military and political violence. This tends to convey the impression that selective disengagement of self-sanctions occurs only under extraordinary circumstances. The truth is quite the contrary. Such mechanisms operate in everyday situations in which decent people routinely perform activities having injurious human effects, to further their own interests or for profit.”

— Albert Bandura

75. “Measures of self-precept must be tailored to the domain of psychological functioning being explored.”

— Albert Bandura

76. “The human condition is better improved by altering detrimental circumstances and personal perspectives than by trying to alter personal outlooks, while ignoring the very circumstances that serve to nourish them.”

— Albert Bandura

77. “Very often we developed a better grasp of the subjects than the over worked teachers.”

— Albert Bandura

78. “Except for events that carry great weight, it is not experience per se, but how they match expectations, that governs their emotional impact.”

— Albert Bandura

79. “Students judge how well they might do in a chemistry course from knowing how peers, who performed comparably to them in physics, fared in chemistry.”

— Albert Bandura

80. “To grant thought causal efficacy is not to invoke a disembodied mental state.”

— Albert Bandura

81. “Perceived self-efficacy in coping with potential threats leads people to approach such situations anxiously, and experience of disruptive arousal may further lower their sense of efficacy that they will be able to perform skillfully.”

— Albert Bandura

82. “Because of such conjointedness, behavior that exerts no effect whatsoever on outcomes is developed and consistently performed.”

— Albert Bandura

83. “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

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

— Albert Bandura