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The Reasons Why People Maintain Negative Self-Evaluations

Simon Moesgaard — Wed, 01 Apr 2015 09:44:59 +0000

Why would people maintain negative self-evaluations when they result in a great degree of distress? What purpose do negative self-evaluations have? Do they help us solve our problems, or do they help us in some other way? It seems not. Negative self-evaluations are inevitable. They often appear in performance situations, but they may also originate from feelings of guilt […]

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4 Ways to Develop Self-Efficacy Beliefs

Simon Moesgaard — Mon, 20 Jan 2014 18:38:43 +0000

Have you ever wondered whether you have a strong self-efficacy belief or not? Or perhaps you are curious about how people develop their self-efficacy beliefs? This post describes the theory of self-efficacy, the research surrounding it, and four ways in which people develop self-efficacy beliefs. The theory of self-efficacy was coined by Albert Bandura, an early cognitive […]

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Self-Efficacy is Related to Motivation and Performance, Research Shows

Simon Moesgaard — Thu, 03 Oct 2013 19:34:00 +0000

The degree to which people believe in themselves and their own capabilities is important for their motivation and success. People’s capabilities are important, but what they believe they can do is at least as important! The concept of self-efficacy, originally developed by Bandura (1995), assesses one’s core belief of having the power to achieve one’s […]

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Hindsight Bias: Why We View Events as More Predictable Than They Really Are

Simon Moesgaard — Fri, 13 Sep 2013 13:41:00 +0000

The hindsight bias is one of many cognitive biases, and it is defined as the belief that an event is more predictable after it becomes known than it was before it became known. As a result, people tend to view events are more predictable than they are. The bias involves the inability to remember the uncertainty […]

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