ABSTRACT
The main school of thought that evolved from Albert Bandura's seminal text Aggression: A Social Learning Analysis, was social learning theory, the idea that behavior is learned through social processes. Bandura has brought questions of social learning and self-efficacy to the forefront of psychology. Many other esteemed psychologists and academics have been associated with and are still developing Bandura's ideas of social cognitive theory and self-efficacy. Researchers such as Craig Anderson have developed Bandura's ideas about aggression. Self-efficacy research, founded on Bandura's concepts, now tends to focus on issues such as motivation and goal orientation. Albert Bandura continued to work on his theories of social cognitive theory, self-regulation, and self-efficacy after the publication of Aggression: A Social Learning Analysis. Bandura changed the perspective from which aggression was analyzed. His later development of social learning theory prompted a fundamental shift toward a cognitive perspective on human learning in the field of psychology.
