Social Cognitive Theory: An Agentic Perspective on Human Nature

A comprehensive and foundational analysis of learning and motivated action from one of the undisputed masters of the psychological sciences

The third and final work of psychology’s most eminent modern figure, Dr. Albert Bandura’s Social Cognitive Theory: An Agentic Perspective on Human Nature delivers a singular, book-length introduction to the ideas of the most influential psychological scientist of the last half-century. In the book, the author crafts a theory that combines the determinants of thought and action while identifying processes through which agents exert substantial control over their actions and the courses of their development.

Readers will also find:

A thorough introduction to the author’s agentic-perspective argument A comprehensive analysis of the author’s perspective on moral behavior and moral disengagement An application of the basic principles of Social Cognitive Theory to social change for human betterment

An essential and groundbreaking resource for educational, health, and personality psychologists, Social Cognitive Theory: An Agentic Perspective on Human Nature will also prove indispensable to organizational behavior theorists and researchers.