Humans Are Producers Of Their Life Circumstance

The Human Condition Is Better Improved By Altering Detrimental Circumstances And Personal Perspectives Than By Trying To Alter Personal Outlooks, While Ignoring The Very Circumstances That Serve To Nourish Them

If There Is Any Characteristic That Is Distinctly Human, It Is The Capability For Reflective Self-consciousness.

Discrepancies Between Self-efficacy Judgment And Performance Will Arise When Either The Tasks Or The Circumstances Under Which They Are Performed Are Ambiguous

People Behave Agentically, But They Produce Theories That Afford People Very Little Agency.

People's Conceptions About Themselves And The Nature Of Things Are Developed And Verified Through Four Different Processes: Direct Experience Of The Effects Produced By Their Actions, Vicarious Experience Of The Effects Produced By Somebody Else's Actions, Judgments Voiced By Others, And Derivation Of Further Knowledge From What They Already Know By Using Rules Of Inference