Dualistic doctrines that regard mind and body as separate entities do not provide much enlightenment on the nature of the disembodied mental state or on how an immaterial mind and bodily events act on each other

Self-appraisals are influenced by evaluative reactions of others.

Even noteworthy performance attainments do not necessarily boost perceived self-efficacy

To grant thought causal efficacy is not to invoke a disembodied mental state

Misbeliefs in one's inefficacy may retard development of the very subskills upon which more complex performances depend

Given a sufficient level of perceived self-efficacy to take on threatening tasks, phobics perform them with varying amounts of fear arousal depending on the strength of their perceived self-efficacy

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.