Social cognitive theory (SCT), used in psychology, education, and communication, holds that portions of an individual's knowledge acquisition can be directly...

The social cognitive theory of morality attempts to explain how moral thinking, in interaction with other psychosocial determinants, govern individual...

Prophecy Fails: A Social and Psychological Study of a Modern Group That Predicted the Destruction of the World (1956) and A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance (1957)...

and imitating others. It states that learning is a cognitive process that takes place in a social context and can occur purely through observation or...

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...

of cognitive biases has been identified over the last six decades of research on human judgment and decision-making in cognitive science, social psychology...

situations. It focuses on the role that cognitive processes play in social interactions. More technically, social cognition refers to how people deal with...

Social comparison theory, initially proposed by social psychologist Leon Festinger in 1954, centers on the belief that individuals drive to gain accurate...

including social cognitive theory, therapy, and personality psychology, and was also of influence in the transition between behaviorism and cognitive psychology...

Social cognitive theory proposes that much of human learning occurs through the social environment. Many ideas surrounding social cognitive theory were...