When actions are followed by events that are not causally related to the prior acts, people often erroneously perceive contingencies that do not, in fact, exist

People who are insecure about themselves will avoid social comparisons that are potentially threatening to their self-esteem

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

Perceived self-inefficacy predicts avoidance of academic activities whereas anxiety does not

Students judge how well they might do in a chemistry course from knowing how peers, who performed comparably to them in physics, fared in chemistry

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

People who regard themselves as highly efficacious act, think, and feel differently from those who perceive themselves as inefficacious. They produce their own future, rather than simply foretell it.