Discover how mastery, deliberate practice, and self‑efficacy turn fear into courage—from Captain Sully’s heroism to Stanford’s surprising research.

There’s a reason the words “believe in yourself” are plastered on classroom signs and cross-stitched on throw pillows. Your sense of self-efficacy, or the belief that you can accomplish what you set ...

Self-efficacy, an important latent construct grounded in Bandura's Social Cognitive theory, has been shown to reliably predict student performance, particularly in online environments. While the ...

To paraphrase Oscar Wilde, you’d need a heart of stone not to scoff at a certain Harvard Crimson headline: “Harvard Professors Cancel Classes as Students Feel Blue After Trump Win.” Courses like ...

Failure can weaken self-belief, especially if an individual lacks resilience. However, those with high self-belief tend to ...

It might seem like our fears are instinctive or automatic and therefore beyond our control. But we can, in fact, shake them. Our sense of our own competency enhances our ability to behave courageously ...

Martin Luther Christian University (MLCU) on Thursday held a graduation ceremony for its certificate course in Self-Efficacy for Personal Agency (SEPA), marking the completion of a 200-hour faculty ...

Small commitments to yourself may feel trivial — but psychologists say they may form the foundation of genuine self-respect, resilience and long-term well-being. Self-respect is often described as a ...

Self-respect is often described as a somewhat abstract, intuitive, internal feeling or judgement that one has about oneself. But if we observe it up-close and long-term, we can see that it’s actually ...