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    Bandura argues that chance encounters can significantly impact people's life paths in unpredictable ways. While psychology cannot explain why chance encounters occur, it can predict how people will be affected based on personal and social factors. Personal skills, strong emotional ties, consistent values, sense of agency and ability to benefit from opportunities are some factors that determine whether a chance encounter influences someone's life trajectory. The environment also plays a role, as milieus that reward successful outcomes or welcome newcomers facilitate impactful chance connections.

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    Bandura argues that chance encounters can significantly impact people's life paths in unpredictable ways. While psychology cannot explain why chance encounters occur, it can predict how people will be affected based on personal and social factors. Personal skills, strong emotional ties, consistent values, sense of agency and ability to benefit from opportunities are some factors that determine whether a chance encounter influences someone's life trajectory. The environment also plays a role, as milieus that reward successful outcomes or welcome newcomers facilitate impactful chance connections.

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    Bandura argues that chance encounters can significantly impact people's life paths in unpredictable ways. While psychology cannot explain why chance encounters occur, it can predict how people will be affected based on personal and social factors. Personal skills, strong emotional ties, consistent values, sense of agency and ability to benefit from opportunities are some factors that determine whether a chance encounter influences someone's life trajectory. The environment also plays a role, as milieus that reward successful outcomes or welcome newcomers facilitate impactful chance connections.

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    THE PSYCHOLOGY OF CHANCE ENCOUNTERS AND LIFE PATHS

    by: Albert Bandura, 1982


    CHANCE ENCOUNTER

     Psychological theories have neglected the fundamental issue of


    what determines’s people’s life paths. In a chance encounter the
    separate chains of events have their own casual determinants, but
    their intersection occurs fortuitously rather than through deliberate
    plan. Some fortuitous encounters touch only lightly, others leave
    more lasting effects, and still others branch people into new
    trajectories of life. A science of pyschology cannot shed much light
    on the occurrence of fortuitous encounters, but it can provide the
    basis for predicting the impact they will have on human lives.
    ALBERT BANDURA

     He was born on December 4, 1925 in the small


    town of Mundare in northern Alberta, Canada. 
     He is the husband of Virginia Varns, an instructor
    in the nursing school and a father of their two
    children.
     He is an American psychologist and originator of
    social cognitive theory who is probably best
    known for his modeling study on aggression,
    referred to as the Bobo doll experiment which
    demonstrated that children can learn behaviours
    through the observation of adults.
    CHANCE ENCOUNTER AS DETERMINANTS OF LIFE PATHS

     CHANCE ENCOUNTER-
    defined as an unintended meeting of persons unfamiliar to each other.
    PERSONAL DETERMINANTS OF THE
    IMPACT OF CHANCE ENCOUNTER
    ENTRY SKILLS

    If any person one meets by chance is to have


    an influence (good or bad) on one’s life, one’s
    needs personal skills that will allow one to
    interact and engage that individual effectively.
    EMOTIONAL TIES

    The stronger the emotional ties between


    people who meet through chance encounter,
    the more likely it is that those meetings will
    have significant impacts on later outcomes.
    VALUES AND PERSONAL STANDARDS

    The more consistent one’s values are


    with those of the person encountered
    by chance , the greater the possibility
    that the relationship will continue.
    SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF THE IMPACT
    OF CHANCE ENCOUNTER
    MILIEU REWARDS

    Ifa chance encounter leads to a successful


    outcome, one is likely to pursue again the
    social conditions that produced the
    encounter in the first place.
    MILIEU REACH AND CLOSEDNESS

     Chance encounter have the greatest potential when dealing with


    the milieu in which individual firmly hold onto beliefs because
    they serve valuable function; give structure, direction and
    purpose.
     When milieu is closed it is viewed as being more endearing and
    influential which can lead to a person feeling more connected
    early on to the group or individual they have encountered.
    PSYCHOLOGICAL CLOSEDNESS

    The more consistent one’s beliefs are with


    beliefs of those one encounters by chance,
    the more attracted one may be to those
    persons or groups and to the life paths they
    can open
    FOSTERING VALUED FUTURES

     A strong sense of personal agency requires development of competencies,


    self- percepts of efficacy and self regulatory capabilities for exercising self-
    directedness( Bandura, 1982). These types of personal resources expand
    freedom of action and enable people to serve as causal contributors to their
    own life course by selecting, influencing and constructing their own
    circumtances. Mastering the tools of personal agency does not necessarily
    assured desired future. But with such skills people are better able to provide
    supports and direction for their actions, to capitalize on planned or fortuitous
    opportunities, to resist social traps that lead down detrimental paths, and to
    disengage themselves from such predicaments should they become
    enmeshed in them.
    THANK YOU FOR LISTENING...

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