PSYCHOLOGIST

Albert Bandura

1925 - 2021

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Albert Bandura (4 December 1925 – 26 July 2021) was a Canadian-American psychologist and professor of social science in psychology at Stanford University, who contributed to the fields of education and to the fields of psychology, e.g. social cognitive theory, therapy, and personality psychology, and influenced the transition between behaviorism and cognitive psychology. Bandura also is known as the originator of the social learning theory, the social cognitive theory, and the theoretical construct of self-efficacy, and was responsible for the theoretically influential Bobo doll experiment (1961), which demonstrated the conceptual validity of observational learning, wherein children would watch and observe an adult beat a doll, and, having learned through observation, the children then beat a Bobo doll. A 2002 survey ranked Bandura as the fourth most frequently cited psychologist of all time, behind B. F. Skinner, Sigmund Freud, and Jean Piaget. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Albert Bandura is the 16th most popular psychologist, the 6th most popular biography from Canada (down from 4th in 2019) and the most popular Canadian Psychologist. Learn more about Albert Bandura's academic impact at Rankless.

Albert Bandura is most famous for his social learning theory. This theory states that people learn from observing others and then imitate the behaviors they see.

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Albert Bandura ranks 16 out of 235. Before him are Viktor Frankl, Erik Erikson, John Dewey, William James, Carl Rogers, and Gustave Le Bon. After him are Anna Freud, Kurt Lewin, Jordan Peterson, John B. Watson, Daniel Kahneman, and Irvin D. Yalom.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Albert Bandura ranks 15. Before him are Mahathir Mohamad, Patrice Lumumba, Robert Edwards, Gilles Deleuze, Alija Izetbegović, and Zygmunt Bauman. After him are Jorge Rafael Videla, Tony Curtis, Giorgio Napolitano, Sammy Davis Jr., Pierre Boulez, and Mikis Theodorakis. Among people deceased in 2021, Albert Bandura ranks 8. Before him are Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Michael Collins, Bernie Madoff, Ed Asner, and Chun Doo-hwan. After him are Christopher Plummer, George Shultz, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, Roh Tae-woo, Mikis Theodorakis, and Frank Williams.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Albert Bandura ranks 6 out of 1,622. Before him are Mary Pickford (1892), Leonard Cohen (1934), Justin Trudeau (1971), Leslie Nielsen (1926), and Donald Sutherland (1935). After him are Mary Simon (1947), Celine Dion (1968), Christopher Plummer (1929), Jordan Peterson (1962), James Cameron (1954), and William Giauque (1895).

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In Canada

Among psychologists born in Canada, Albert Bandura ranks 1. After him are Jordan Peterson (1962), Eric Berne (1910), Donald O. Hebb (1904), Steven Pinker (1954), Robert D. Hare (1934), and Gordon Neufeld (1947).

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