PSYCHOLOGIST

Albert Bandura

1925 - 2021

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Albert Bandura (December 4, 1925 – July 26, 2021) was a Canadian-American psychologist. He was a professor of social science in psychology at Stanford University.Bandura was 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 influence in the transition between behaviorism and cognitive psychology. He is known as the originator of social learning theory, social cognitive theory, and the theoretical construct of self-efficacy, and is also responsible for the influential 1961 Bobo doll experiment. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Albert Bandura has received more than 2,245,223 page views. His biography is available in 57 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 54 in 2019). Albert Bandura is the 16th most popular psychologist, the 4th most popular biography from Canada (down from 2nd in 2019) and the most popular Canadian Psychologist.

Albert Bandura is most famous for his social learning theory. This theory states that people learn from observing others and then imitate the behaviors they see.

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  • 71.72

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  • 57

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 12.13

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.97

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Albert Banduras by language

Over the past year Albert Bandura has had the most page views in the with 206,193 views, followed by Spanish (99,493), and Italian (39,312). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Malagasy (144.85%), Cantonese (129.92%), and Sinhalese (103.84%)

Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Albert Bandura ranks 16 out of 235. Before him are John Dewey, Viktor Frankl, William James, Erik Erikson, Carl Rogers, and Gustave Le Bon. After him are John B. Watson, Kurt Lewin, Daniel Kahneman, Irvin D. Yalom, Wilhelm Reich, and Edward Thorndike.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Albert Bandura ranks 13. Before him are Gilles Deleuze, Paul Newman, Alija Izetbegović, Giorgio Napolitano, Zygmunt Bauman, and Mahathir Mohamad. After him are Audie Murphy, Mikis Theodorakis, Lee Van Cleef, Carlos Castaneda, Robert F. Kennedy, and Jorge Rafael Videla. Among people deceased in 2021, Albert Bandura ranks 5. Before him are Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Michael Collins, and Gerd Müller. After him are Mikis Theodorakis, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, F. W. de Klerk, Chun Doo-hwan, Christopher Plummer, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, and Charlie Watts.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Albert Bandura ranks 4 out of 1,622. Before him are Jim Carrey (1962), Leonard Cohen (1934), and Leslie Nielsen (1926). After him are Celine Dion (1968), Justin Trudeau (1971), James Cameron (1954), Donald Sutherland (1935), Frank Gehry (1929), Erving Goffman (1922), Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874), and Alice Munro (1931).

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In Canada

Among psychologists born in Canada, Albert Bandura ranks 1. After him are Eric Berne (1910), Donald O. Hebb (1904), Steven Pinker (1954), Jordan Peterson (1962), Robert D. Hare (1934), and Gordon Neufeld (1947).

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