Shared confidence in group power boosts effort and achievement

Evidence

Many challenges involve common problems that require people to work together to solve them. A shared belief in their combined power to realize the future they seek is a key factor in the exercise of collective agency (Bandura, 2000). The greater a group’s perceived collective efficacy, the stronger its members’ motivational investment in their undertakings, the more resilient their staying power in the face of impediments and setbacks, and the greater their accomplishments. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2825

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 2825
• XREF: connects to: Postwar Americans’ collective confidence came from remembered shared accomplishments. — Robert D. Putnam, Bowling Alone The Collapse and Revival…, 31