Albert Bandura The Man And His Ideas – Richard Evans

This introduces the very critical question of morality in the individual. It becomes a very important set of questions because clearly, philosophers, theo- logians, Piaget, Freud, and on and on, have all considered mo- rality and moral development. It would be interesting to see how you began to approach morality and moral development.

BANDURA: Much of our theorizing and research has been concerned with how to instill morality in people. I have been interested in the way in which moral standards are internalized and regulate human conduct. In social cognitive theory, moral- ity is governed by self-regulatory mechanisms. People adopt standards and then act in line with those standards. They en- gage in behavior that gives them a sense of self-respect and self-worth and refrain from behavior that leads to self-censure.

Indeed, the most devastating self-punishment is self-contempt. Most theories approach the issue of morality in terms of inner standards, conscience, and super ego, as though they function as a set of fixed regulators of moral conduct. EVANS: This led to your thinking concerning moral disen- gagement, did it not? BANDURA: Yes. People have a capacity to selectively en- gage or disengage their morality from inhumane conduct.

This permits radically different behavior with the same moral prin- ciples. I have been studying eight psychological mechanisms of moral disengagement. The issue of moral disengagement has tremendous theoretical and social import because most of the wide-scale inhumanities are performed by otherwise consider- ate and compassionate people. It requires social conditions conducive to inhumane behavior rather than monstrous people to produce heinous deeds. In developing a conceptual model of the mechanisms of moral disengagement, I have identified several points in a behavioral process where the disengagement can occur. The first point is / Albert Bandura at the level of reconstruing the behavior itself by moral justifi- cation.

People ordinarily do not engage in detrimental conduct until they have justified to themselves the morality of their cause.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Evans, Richard J. (Richard Isadore), 1922— Albert Bandura: the man and his ideas—a dialogue / Richard I. Evans. p- cm.—(Dialogues in contemporary psychology) Bibliography: p. “Bibliography of Albert Bandura’: p. Includes index. ISBN 0—275-93352-0 (alk. paper) 1. Bandura, Albert, 1925- | —Interviews. 2. Psychologists— United States—Interviews. 3. Psychology—United States—History. I. Bandura, Albert, 1925-— . Il. Title. III. Series: Evans, Richard I. (Richard Isadore), 1922— Dialogues in contemporary psychology. BF109.B28E95 1989 150’.92—dc20 89-32273 Copyright © 1989 by Richard I.

Evans All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced, by any process or technique, without the express written consent of the publisher. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 89-32273 ISBN: 0-275-93352-0 First published in 1989 Praeger Publishers, One Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10010 A division of Greenwood Press, Inc. Printed in the United States of America €) The paper used in this book complies with the Permanent Paper Standard issued by the National Information Standards Organization (Z39.48-1984). LORS San /OnmO mae momen mee TO MY LOVELY WIFE ZENA WHO HAS DEMONSTRATED REMARKABLE SELF-EFFICACY IN COPING WITH AN ILLNESS; AND TO ALL OF OUR CHILDREN.

THEY HAVE DEMONSTRATED SUCH EXTRAORDINARY SUPPORT. Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2023 with funding from Kahle/Austin Foundation https://archive.org/details/albertbanduramanOOO00evan Contents Foreword by Ernest R. Hilgard Preface: Perspective on the Dialogue Style and Content Acknowledgments Personal Background and Early Contributions Aggression and Violence Moral Development and Moral Disengagement Self-Efficacy Reactions to Criticism, A Recent Book References Bibliography: Works of Albert Bandura Index 109 Foreword When Albert Bandura received one of the Awards for Distin- guished Scientific Contributions to Psychology from the Amer- ican Psychological Foundation in 1980, his citation read in part as follows: For masterful modeling as researcher, teacher, and theoretician.

He has sparked renewed interest in covert events. He has led the profes- sion in explicating the social, symbolic, and self-regulatory determi- nants of meaningful learning and behavior change. He has exempli- fied and fostered innovative experiments on a host of topics including moral development, observational learning, fear acquisition, treatment strategies, self-control, standard setting, self-referent processes, and the cognitive regulation of behavior. . . . His vigor, warmth, and hu- man example have inspired his many students’ own self-efficacy.

(American Psychologist, 1981, 36, 27).

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