Mischel, Walter

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Information for Authority record

Name (Hebrew)
מישל, וולטר, 1930-2018
Name (Latin)
Mischel, Walter
Date of birth
1930-02-22
Date of death
2018-09
Associated country
United States
Field of activity
Personality
Psychology
Self-control
Occupation
College teachers
Psychologists
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
Biographical or Historical Data
בן סלומון
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 108918042
Wikidata: Q215978
Library of congress: n 79151503
Sources of Information
  • Info. converted from 678, 2012-10-02(b. 1930)
  • New York times WWW site, viewed Sept. 17, 2018(in obituary published Sept. 14: Walter Mischel; b. Feb. 22, 1930, Vienna; the family fled the Nazis in 1938 and, after stops in London and Los Angeles, settled in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn in 1940; d. Wednesday [Sept. 12, 2018], Manhattan, aged 88; his studies of delayed gratification in young children clarified the importance of self-control in human development; his work led to a broad reconsideration of how personality is understood)
  • His Personality and assessment, 1968.
  • מבחן המרשמלו:
  • עיתון הארץ, נצפה 21 ספטמבר 2018ולטר מישל, פסיכולוג, 1930-2018

Wikipedia description:

Walter Mischel (German: [ˈvaltɐ ˈmɪʃl̩]; February 22, 1930 – September 12, 2018) was an Austrian-born American psychologist specializing in personality theory and social psychology. He was the Robert Johnston Niven Professor of Humane Letters in the Department of Psychology at Columbia University. A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked Mischel as the 25th most cited psychologist of the 20th century.

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