Professor Albert Bandura is one of the world’s greatest living psychologists. A social cognitive psychologist, he is best known for his social learning theory and his work on self-efficacy, self-belief, personality psychology, and much more. Professor Bandura is also famous for the influential Bobo doll experiment of 1961 that demonstrated observational learning. He is David Starr Jordan, Professor Emeritus of Social Science in Psychology at Stanford University.

In 2002 he was ranked the fourth most frequently cited psychologist of all time, behind BF Skinner, Sigmund Freud, and Jean Piaget. Professor Bandura’s career stretches back to the 1950s, and he published his first book in 1959. His most influential books include Self Efficacy: The Exercise of Control and Social Foundations of Thought and Action: A Social Cognitive Theory. Among his most recent books is Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm and Live With Themselves.

Professor Bandura was an Instructor to a Professor of Psychology at Stanford University from 1953 to 2010 and was awarded an endowed chair by Stanford in 1974. He has won countless awards across his career, including the 2016 National Medal of Science, bestowed by President Barack Obama, and he has been awarded nearly 20 honorary degrees.