Albert Bandura Social Quotations

Comparative appraisals of efficacy require not only evaluation of one;s own performances but also knowledge of how others do, cognizance of nonability determinants of their performances, and some understanding that it is others, like oneself, who provide the most informative social criterion for comparison

[Children] receive direct instruction from time to time about the appropriateness of various social comparisons

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

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

Judgments of adequacy involve social comparison processes