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Books by Walter Mischel

Walter Mischel (1930–2018) was a professor of psychology at Columbia University and one of the most influential personality and social psychologists of the twentieth century. Born in Vienna, he emigrated to the United States and earned his doctorate at Ohio State University. He spent much of his career at Stanford, where he designed the marshmallow test, and later at Columbia. His research on self-control, personality consistency, and cognitive-behavioral strategies shaped contemporary clinical and developmental psychology.