Belief makes champions out of an ordinary group of individuals—like the little train that could! While that story is fictional, its message couldn't be more real. Every once in a while, an underdog ...

Self-efficacy can be defined as the belief that you can be successful when carrying out a certain task. The idea of a self-efficacy theory was first proposed in the 1960s by Albert Bandura, a Stanford ...

Almost a century ago, a plucky little blue engine first I-think-I-canned her way up a mountain in an iconic display of self-efficacy's power. But the term self-efficacy wouldn’t come along for another ...

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 ...