Judgments of adequacy involve social comparison processes

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

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

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

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

Freedom [should not be] conceived negatively as exemption from social influences or situational constraints. Rather...positively as the exercise of self-influence to bring about desired results.

We are more heavily invested in the theories of failure than we are in the theories of success.