Dr. Albert Bandura - Early Academics

After completing his doctorate Dr. Bandura went onto a postdoctoral position at the Wichita Guidance Center before accepting a position as a faculty member at Stanford University in 1953, where he still is today! Dr. Bandura found Stanford to be near perfect in its philosophy towards students and learning, renowned colleagues, bright students, and good weather. While at Stanford he has always felt able to pursue whatever research area he wanted. Dr. Bandura has studied many different topics over the years, including aggression in adolescents (more specifically he was interested in aggression in boys who came from intact middle-class families), children’s abilities to self-regulate and self-reflect, and of course self-efficacy (a person’s perception about their ability to produce effects, or influence events that concern their lives).