Agemates provide the most informative points of reference for comparative efficacy appraisal and verification. Children are, therefore, especially sensitive to their relative standing among the peers with whom they affiliate in activities that determine prestige and popularity

Misbeliefs in one's inefficacy may retard development of the very subskills upon which more complex performances depend

Agemates provide the most informative points of reference for comparative efficacy appraisal and verification. Children are, therefore, especially sensitive to their relative standing among the peers with whom they affiliate in activities that determine prestige and popularity

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

Humans are producers of their life circumstance not just products of them.

If there is any characteristic that is distinctly human, it is the capability for reflective self-consciousness.

Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience.