MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'bandura'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 03:00:47 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4338035&cid=t_180176_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F01%2F12%2Fthe-power-of-suggestion%2F In the wake of the massacre in Tucson one of the debates has been over whether a toxic environment might have contributed to the assailant’s behavior.  Social psychology has demonstrated countless times the power of seemingly trivial situatonal forces to encourage hostility and violence.  One of the classics is a 1975 study of the effects of dehumanization. Here is a 1999 summary of that study by Situationist Contributor Phil Zimbardo. * * * My colleague, Albert Bandura, and his students contnued this line of research by extending the basic paradigm here to study the minimal conditions necessary to create dehumanization (Bandura, Underwood, & Fromson, 1975). What they manipulated was only the actors’ perceptioin of their victims–no authority pressures, no induced an... The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4338035 Wed, 12 Jan 2011 04:17:15 +0100 4338035 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4314050&cid=t_180176_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2011%2F01%2F05%2Foptimism-and-the-psychology-of-chance-encounters%2F “…chance encounters play a prominent role in shaping the course of human lives.” ~ Albert Bandura Former president, American Psychological Association “Did you ever observe to whom the accidents happen? Chance favors only the prepared mind.” ~ Louis Pasteur A friend of mine recently went through a tough time: a personal crisis. She was scouring for signs of something positive, anything that would offer a ray of hope or light for her situation. She decided to go out for some tea when she encountered a woman, unknown to her, who began chatting about the trials and tribulations of her life. The woman spoke of gratitude for those who had courage, and at the end of what was essentially a monologue the woman said to my friend: “Everybody goes through difficulties. Surround yourse... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4314050 Wed, 05 Jan 2011 11:05:00 +0100 4314050 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2398788&cid=t_180176_109_f&fid=37784&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2Fpsychblog%2F%7E3%2FImI5Gq1RntI%2Fis-a-home-smoking-ban-enough-to-stop-teen-smoking-808.html We all know the power of role models and I have written about the effect of role modes on behaviour many times before: from the moving ‘Children See, Children Do‘ campaign to talking about the effectiveness of the pictures of death and destruction that now adorn our fag packets. All these ideas are supported by the Behaviourist Bandura and his Social Learning Theory which proposes that children especially learn their behaviours through the observation and imitation of role models.  Bandura demonstrated this in his 1961 research where he exposed children to aggressive role models who acted violently (both physical and verbal violence) towards an inflatable bobo-doll. He found that children who were passive witnesses to this violent act were more likely to imitate this behaviour... PsychBLOG.co.uk blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2398788 Sun, 10 May 2009 10:22:01 +0100 2398788 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1643159&cid=t_180176_109_f&fid=37784&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2Fpsychblog%2F%7E3%2F299160779%2Fdont-be-a-bozo-390.html We all love and adore the Bandura’s study looking at the imitation of aggression in young children and if you’re anything like me it’s a great chance to get a ‘bobo’ doll and Sock him in the nose! For the last two years I’ve had to cope with a ‘Bob the Builder’ one but now we’re all in with the chance to get hold of a bona fide (well almost) Bozo doll just like the one that he used. OCR have 25 of these Bozo Dolls up for grabs and all you have to do to enter is get over to their ‘campaign site‘ where there’s loads of other free stuff for the new specification and pop your details into the little box. It’s as easy as that. I really want one of these - well actually I did try to buy one from the USA but it still h... PsychBLOG.co.uk blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1643159 Tue, 27 May 2008 15:37:05 +0100 1643159 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1406963&cid=t_180176_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2008%2F04%2F29%2Ffailing-in-order-to-succeed%2F Everyone’s heard of the need for self-esteem. If you don’t feel good about yourself, how can you ever accomplish anything in your life? But what you may not know is the need for something else, which may be even more important — self-efficacy. That is, the belief that you have what you need in order to succeed (even if you don’t always do so). People with self-efficacy often have very high standards for themselves, which brings about a paradox — they may not always have the highest self-esteem, nor do they always succeed (according to their own standards). What they do do is to never give up and always continue believing in themselves and their abilities. The Wall Street Journal’s Melinda Beck has a column today about the role and importance self-ef... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1406963 Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:59:34 +0100 1406963 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1391350&cid=t_180176_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F04%2F22%2Falbert-bandura-wins-grawemeyer-award%2F From The Observer: Albert Bandura was awarded [one of the] 2008 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Awards [for $200,000]. A native of Canada, Albert Bandura received his doctoral degree from the University of Iowa in 1952. He began his appointment at Stanford University in 1953, where he remains as the David Starr Jordan professor of social science in psychology. In 2002 Bandura was ranked the 20th Century’s fourth most eminent psychologist in a survey conducted by the Review of General Psychology, coming in behind only B.F. Skinner, Jean Piaget, and Sigmund Freud. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Medicine and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Bandura has received APS’s highest honors, the William James Fellow Award and the Jam... The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1391350 Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:00:38 +0100 1391350