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Regression analyses show that self-efficacy contributes to achievement behavior beyond the effects of cognitive skills

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Albert Bandura
Age: 95 †
Born: 1925
Born: December 4
Died: 2021
Died: July 26
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If you look at our theories of social pathology and then at the dismal conditions in which children grow up in our ghettos, you would predict that all of them would be on drugs or psychological basket cases. Yet if you use criteria like gainful employment, forming partnerships and life without crime, you will find that most of those kids make it.
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We are more heavily invested in the theories of failure than we are in the theories of success.
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