When experience contradicts firmly held judgments of self-efficacy, people may not change their beliefs about themselves if the conditions of performance are such as to lead them to discount the import of the experience

A problem of future research is to clarify how young children learn what type of social comparative information is most useful for efficacy evaluation

Except for events that carry great weight, it is not experience per se, but how they match expectations, that governs their emotional impact

People not only gain understanding through reflection, they evaluate and alter their own thinking.

Many people who gain recognition and fame shape their lives by overcoming seemingly insurmountable obstacles, only to be catapulted into new social realities over which they have less control and manage badly. Indeed, the annals of the famous and infamous are strewn with individuals who were both architects and victims of their life courses.

The effects of outcome expectancies on performance motivation are partly governed by self-beliefs of efficacy

Psychology cannot tell people how they ought to live their lives. It can however, provide them with the means for effecting personal and social change.