People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier, more effective and more successful than those who lack faith in their ability to effect changes in their lives.

Perceived self-efficacy in coping with potential threats leads people to approach such situations anxiously, and experience of disruptive arousal may further lower their sense of efficacy that they will be able to perform skillfully

In the self-appraisal of efficacy, there are many sources of information that must be processed and weighed through self-referent thought

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

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

Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of moral ends. This is why most appeals against violent means usually fall on deaf ears.

Incongruities between self-efficacy and action may stem from misperceptions of task demands, as well as from faulty self-knowledge