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

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

People’s beliefs about their abilities have a profound effect on those abilities.

We are more heavily invested in the theories of failure than we are in the theories of success.

Perceived self-efficacy influences the types of causal attributions people make for their performances

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

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