Social Foundations of Thought and Action

Social Foundations of Thought and Action: A Social Cognitive Theory
AuthorAlbert Bandura
LanguageEnglish
GenrePsychology; educational Psychology
PublisherPrentice Hall;
Publication date
1986
Pages617
ISBN978-0-13-815614-5
OCLC12080269

Social Foundations of Thought and Action: A Social Cognitive Theory is a landmark work in psychology published in 1986 by Albert Bandura. The book expands Bandura's initial social learning theory into a comprehensive theory of human motivation and action, analyzing the role of cognitive, vicarious, self-regulatory, and self-reflective processes in psychosocial functioning. Bandura first advanced his thesis of reciprocal determinism in Social Foundations of Thought and Action.

The book was originally published in the United States in 1986. Translations have been published in Chinese, Russian, and Spanish.[1] The book has been reviewed and discussed in several professional social science journals,[2][3][4][5][6][7] and widely cited in the professional literatures of psychology,[8] sociology,[9] and other fields.[10]

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  8. ^ The PsycINFO database returned 6407 total hits and 5134 hits in peer-reviewed journals for the search query: "re=bandura and re=social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory" (accessed 26 March 2011).
  9. ^ The Sociological Abstracts database returned 224 total hits and 209 hits in peer-reviewed journals for the search query: "re=bandura and re=social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory" (accessed 26 March 2011).
  10. ^ Google Scholar (here) lists more than 19,000 citations (accessed 26 March 2011)