Walter Mischel
Psychologist and author
Walter Mischel was an Austrian-born American psychologist who specialized in personality theory and social psychology. He devised the marshmallow test, the subject of The Marshmallow Test.
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American Born 1930 in Vienna, Austria Died 2018
About Walter Mischel
Walter Mischel (1930 to 2018) was born in Vienna and became an American psychologist. His work centered on personality theory and social psychology. He studied at New York University, City College of New York and Ohio State University. He held the title of Robert Johnston Niven Professor of Humane Letters in the Department of Psychology at Columbia University. A survey published in 2002 placed him twenty-fifth among psychologists of the 1900s when ranked by how often their work was cited. In the 1960s, while researching child psychology, he created the marshmallow test. He wrote about it in The Marshmallow Test.