Description: This conversation ranges widely across moral disengagement, self-efficacy, trauma, war, culture, and everyday ethical decision-making. Through audience questions and extended reflection, it examines how people justify harm, cope with violence and injustice, and regulate their behavior in personal, social, and political life. Therapists and students gain a rare, accessible window into how social psychology connects to PTSD, gendered violence, cultural values, procrastination, and the moral choices embedded in ordinary clinical and civic life.
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ALBERT BANDURA, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology, Stanford University. He has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Science. Dr. Bandura is a proponent of Self-Efficacy Theory. This theory and its diverse applications are presented in his recently published book, Self-Efficacy: The Exercise of Control.
Bandura has been responsible for contributions to the field of education and to several fields of psychology, including social cognitive theory, therapy, and personality psychology, and was also of incluence in the transition between behaviorism and cognitive psychology. He is known as the originator of social learning theory (renamed the social cognitive theory) and the theoretical construct of self-efficacy, and is also responsible for the influential 1961 Bobo doll experiment. This Bobo doll experiment demonstrated the concept of observational learning.