Böcker av Albert Bandura

A comprehensive perspective on human nature by one of the undisputed masters of the psychological sciencesThe final book by psychology's most eminent modern figure, Dr. Albert Bandura, is the definitive concise presentation of his theoretical views. In Social Cognitive Theory: An Agentic Perspective on Human Nature, Bandura explains how his half-century of research and theory on the determinants of thought and action highlight people's capacity for agency: the ability to exert control over one's actions and the courses of one's development. He further explains how his basic theory and research have been applied, world-wide, for the betterment of the human condition.Readers will find:* A thorough introduction to the author's agentic-perspective on human nature* Dr. Bandura's theoretical analyses of moral behavior and moral disengagement* Applications of the basic principles of Social Cognitive Theory to personal and social change for human bettermentAn essential and groundbreaking resource for educational, health, and personality psychologists, Social Cognitive Theory: An Agentic Perspective on Human Nature will also prove indispensable to social and industrial/organizational psychologists.

Dr. Bandura provides a definitive exposition of the psychosocial mechanism by which people selectively disengage their moral self-sanctions from their harmful conduct. dehumanizing those they maltreat, and blaming them for bringing the suffering on themselves.Dr. Bandura's theory of moral disengagement is uniquely broad in scope.

Presenting a theory of human motivation from a social-cognitive perspective, this book addresses the roles played by cognitive, vicarious, self-regulatory, and self-reflective processes in psychosocial functioning. It emphasizes reciprocal causation through the interplay of cognitive, behavioral, and environmental factors.

The renowned psychologist Albert Bandura's theory is that those with high self-efficacy expectancies (the belief that one can achieve what one sets out to do) are healthier, more effective and generally more successful than those with low self-efficacy expectancies.