Albert Bandura

Albert Bandura

Albert Bandura (; December 4, 1925 – July 26, 2021) was a Canadian-American psychologist who was the David Starr Jordan Professor 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 (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. A 2002 survey ranked Bandura as the fourth most-frequently cited psychologist of all time, behind B. F. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Albert Bandura has received more than 2,018,218 page views. His biography is available in 54 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 50 in 2019). Albert Bandura is the 16th most popular psychologist (up from 18th in 2019), the 2nd most popular biography from Canada (up from 3rd 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.