This has increased with the tremendous technological advances in communications. We have a vast new world of images brought into our sitting rooms electronically. Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience. This has increased with the tremendous technological advances in communications. We have a vast new world of images brought into our sitting-rooms electronically.

Forceful actions arising from erroneous beliefs often create social effects that confirm the misbeliefs

Such self-referent misgivings creates stress and undermine effective use of the competencies people possess by diverting attention from how best to proceed to concern over personal failings and possible mishaps

Ironically, it is the talented who have high aspirations, which are possible but exceedingly difficult to realize, who are especially vulnerable to self-dissatisfaction despite notable achievements.

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

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

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