{
  "id": "self-efficacy.calibrated",
  "term": "self-efficacy",
  "sense": "calibrated",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "published",
  "level": 15,
  "domain": "agency",
  "style": "window",
  "definition": "A self-model whose reading of its reach is the reach it actually has.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "self-model.reflexive",
      "reach.action",
      "read.information",
      "actually.real",
      "agency.capacity"
    ],
    "interaction": "The self-model reads the thing's reach and the reading lands where the reach is: it acts where acting works and does not spend action where it cannot. Calibration, not size: a small reach read exactly is full self-efficacy.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "action aimed only where it can land",
      "calibration independent of how large the reach is",
      "the SELF-READ value every other reach word departs from"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "A climber who backs off a route below their limit and commits on one at it is reading their reach, not their fear or their pride.",
      "domain": "sport"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "humility.calibrated",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "humility calibrates the reported range; self-efficacy calibrates the reported reach"
    },
    {
      "id": "learned-helplessness.under",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "reach read as smaller than it is"
    },
    {
      "id": "illusion-of-control.over",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "reach read as larger than it is"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "playing-within-yourself.margin"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "self efficacy"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "claude-opus-5-5:hand-curated",
    "date": "2026-09-28",
    "confidence": 0.85,
    "sources": [
      "schema/power-agency-phase.md"
    ]
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-self-efficacy.calibrated"
}