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Albert Bandura: 2 ideas worth knowing

2 ideas from Albert Bandura, each explained in a minute and credited to the original work. Free on Savvy.

• Kids who watched an adult punch a doll went and punched it themselves

  In Albert Bandura's 1961 Bobo doll experiment, children who watched an adult attack an inflatable clown doll imitated the exact aggressive acts when later left alone with it, while…

  — Albert Bandura, Dorothea Ross, Sheila A. Ross, Transmission of Aggression through Imitation of Aggressive Models

• Believing you can do something predicts whether you'll actually try

  In 1977, psychologist Albert Bandura proposed that self-efficacy — your belief in your own ability to pull off a specific task — shapes which challenges you attempt, how much effor…

  — Albert Bandura, Self-Efficacy: Toward a Unifying Theory of Behavioral Change

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