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One cannot afford to be a realist.
Once established, reputations do not easily change.
Judgments of adequacy involve social comparison processes
Self-appraisals are influenced by evaluative reactions of others.
Perpetrators absolve their harmful behavior as serving worthy causes.
Humans are producers of their life circumstance not just products of them.
To grant thought causal efficacy is not to invoke a disembodied mental state
People’s beliefs about their abilities have a profound effect on those abilities.
Very often we developed a better grasp of the subjects than the over worked teachers.
Even noteworthy performance attainments do not necessarily boost perceived self-efficacy
Fortunately, most human behavior is learned observationally through modeling from others.
People judge their capabilities partly by comparing their performances with those of others
People behave agentically, but they produce theories that afford people very little agency.
Perceived self-inefficacy predicts avoidance of academic activities whereas anxiety does not
The performances of others are often selected as standards for self-improvement of abilities
Self-belief does not necessarily ensure success, but self-disbelief assuredly spawns failure.
Perceived self-efficacy and beliefs about the locus of outcome causality must be distinguished
We are more heavily invested in the theories of failure than we are in the theories of success.
People not only gain understanding through reflection, they evaluate and alter their own thinking.
Self-doubt creates the impetus for learning but hinders adept use of previously established skills
If self-efficacy is lacking, people tend to behave ineffectually, even though they know what to do.
Measures of self-precept must be tailored to the domain of psychological functioning being explored.
Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience.
Perceived self-efficacy influences the types of causal attributions people make for their performances
Some of the most important determinants of life paths arise through the most trivial of circumstances.
Forceful actions arising from erroneous beliefs often create social effects that confirm the misbeliefs
The adequacy of performance attainments depends upon the personal standards against which they are judged
The content of most textbooks is perishable, but the tools of self-directedness serve one well over time.
Given appropriate social conditions, decent, ordinary people can be led to do extraordinarily cruel things.
Stringent standards of self-evaluation [can] make otherwise objective successes seem to be personal failures
The effects of outcome expectancies on performance motivation are partly governed by self-beliefs of efficacy
[Children] receive direct instruction from time to time about the appropriateness of various social comparisons
Even the self-assured will raise their perceived self-efficacy if models teach them better ways of doing things.
If there is any characteristic that is distinctly human, it is the capability for reflective self-consciousness.
It is no more informative to speak of self-efficacy in global terms than to speak of nonspecific social behavior
The satisfactions people derive from what they do are determined to a large degree by their self-evaluative standards
Regression analyses show that self-efficacy contributes to achievement behavior beyond the effects of cognitive skills
Misbeliefs in one's inefficacy may retard development of the very subskills upon which more complex performances depend
Gaining insight into one's underlying motives, it seems, is more like a belief conversion than a self-discovery process
Self-efficacy beliefs differ from outcome expectations, judgments of the likely consequence [that] behavior will produce.
Accomplishment is socially judged by ill defined criteria so that one has to rely on others to find out how one is doing.
People who are insecure about themselves will avoid social comparisons that are potentially threatening to their self-esteem
Because of such conjointedness, behavior that exerts no effect whatsoever on outcomes is developed and consistently performed
Incongruities between self-efficacy and action may stem from misperceptions of task demands, as well as from faulty self-knowledge
A theory that denies that thoughts can regulate actions does not lend itself readily to the explanation of complex human behavior.
People who hold a low view of themselves [will credit] their achievements to external factors, rather than to their own capabilities.
In the self-appraisal of efficacy, there are many sources of information that must be processed and weighed through self-referent thought
Self-efficacy is the belief in one's capabilities to organize and execute the sources of action required to manage prospective situations.
Except for events that carry great weight, it is not experience per se, but how they match expectations, that governs their emotional impact
People with high assurance in their capabilities approach difficult tasks as challenges to be mastered rather than as threats to be avoided.