1925 - Today
Albert Bandura (; born December 4, 1925) is a Canadian-American psychologist who is the David Starr Jordan Professor Emeritus of Social Science in Psychology at Stanford University. 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 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. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Albert Bandura has received more than 1,520,466 page views. His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 48 in 2019). Albert Bandura is the 18th most popular psychologist (down from 17th in 2019), the 3rd most popular biography from Canada (up from 4th 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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Among psychologists, Albert Bandura ranks 18 out of 182. Before him are William James, Carl Rogers, Viktor Frankl, Gustave Le Bon, Anna Freud, and John B. Watson. After him are Edward Thorndike, Kurt Lewin, B. F. Skinner, Lawrence Kohlberg, Wilhelm Reich, and Melanie Klein.
1842 - 1910
HPI: 80.83
Rank: 12
1902 - 1987
HPI: 80.56
Rank: 13
1905 - 1997
HPI: 80.15
Rank: 14
1841 - 1931
HPI: 79.94
Rank: 15
1895 - 1982
HPI: 79.48
Rank: 16
1878 - 1958
HPI: 78.87
Rank: 17
1925 - Present
HPI: 78.86
Rank: 18
1874 - 1949
HPI: 78.59
Rank: 19
1890 - 1947
HPI: 78.40
Rank: 20
1904 - 1990
HPI: 78.26
Rank: 21
1927 - 1987
HPI: 77.53
Rank: 22
1897 - 1957
HPI: 77.46
Rank: 23
1882 - 1960
HPI: 77.16
Rank: 24
Among people born in 1925, Albert Bandura ranks 9. Before him are Pol Pot, Richard Burton, Gilles Deleuze, Yukio Mishima, Paul Newman, and Patrice Lumumba. After him are Robert F. Kennedy, Zygmunt Bauman, Alija Izetbegović, Mikis Theodorakis, Tony Curtis, and Carlos Castaneda.
1925 - 1998
HPI: 83.79
Rank: 3
1925 - 1984
HPI: 83.54
Rank: 4
1925 - 1995
HPI: 79.66
Rank: 5
1925 - 1970
HPI: 79.52
Rank: 6
1925 - 2008
HPI: 79.49
Rank: 7
1925 - 1961
HPI: 79.36
Rank: 8
1925 - Present
HPI: 78.86
Rank: 9
1925 - 1968
HPI: 78.74
Rank: 10
1925 - 2017
HPI: 78.72
Rank: 11
1925 - 2003
HPI: 78.64
Rank: 12
1925 - Present
HPI: 78.19
Rank: 13
1925 - 2010
HPI: 77.79
Rank: 14
1925 - 1998
HPI: 77.51
Rank: 15
Among people born in Canada, Albert Bandura ranks 3 out of 1,130. Before him are Leonard Cohen (1934) and Leslie Nielsen (1926). After him are Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874), Donald Sutherland (1935), Marshall McLuhan (1911), James Naismith (1861), Erving Goffman (1922), Alice Munro (1931), Frank Gehry (1929), Justin Trudeau (1971), and Christopher Plummer (1929).
1934 - 2016
HPI: 82.10
Rank: 1
1926 - 2010
HPI: 78.95
Rank: 2
1925 - Present
HPI: 78.86
Rank: 3
1874 - 1942
HPI: 78.79
Rank: 4
1935 - Present
HPI: 78.63
Rank: 5
1911 - 1980
HPI: 77.80
Rank: 6
1861 - 1939
HPI: 77.80
Rank: 7
1922 - 1982
HPI: 77.36
Rank: 8
1931 - Present
HPI: 77.36
Rank: 9
1929 - Present
HPI: 77.09
Rank: 10
1971 - Present
HPI: 76.96
Rank: 11
1929 - Present
HPI: 76.88
Rank: 12
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), and Gordon Neufeld (1947).
1925 - Present
HPI: 78.86
Rank: 1
1910 - 1970
HPI: 74.39
Rank: 2
1904 - 1985
HPI: 69.65
Rank: 3
1954 - Present
HPI: 65.12
Rank: 4
1962 - Present
HPI: 62.69
Rank: 5
1947 - Present
HPI: 57.56
Rank: 6