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 BanduraIf there is any characteristic that is distinctly human, it is the capability for reflective self-consciousness.
Albert BanduraExcept for events that carry great weight, it is not experience per se, but how they match expectations, that governs their emotional impact
Albert BanduraThe adequacy of performance attainments depends upon the personal standards against which they are judged
Albert BanduraSocial cognitive theory rejects the dichotomous conception of self as agent and self as object. Acting on the environment and acting on oneself entail shifting the perspective of the same agent rather than reifying different selves regulating each other or transforming the self from agent to object
Albert Bandura