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

For many activities, people cannot rely solely on themselves in evaluating their ability level because such judgments require inferences from probabilistic indicants of talent about which they may have limited knowledge. Self-appraisals are, therefore, partly based on the opinions of others who presumably possess evaluative competence

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

Stringent standards of self-evaluation [can] make otherwise objective successes seem to be personal failures

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

Among the types of thoughts that affect action, none is more central or pervasive than people's judgments of their capabilities to deal effectively with different realities

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