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(1930-2018) Author. Walter Mischel was born in Vienna, Austria, and died in Manhattan, New York.

Full Name

Walter Mischel

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Unknown

OTHER

Mr. Mischel graduated from New Utrecht High School in Brooklyn, New York.

1930

BIRTH

Walter Mischel was born in Vienna, Austria, on February 22, 1930.

1940

RESIDENCE

Mr. Mischel moved with his family to the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn, New York, in 1940.

1951

OTHER

Mr. Mischel received a bachelor's degree in psychology at New York University in 1951.

1968

LITWORK

Personality and Assessment
New York: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
0471609250 / 978-0471609254
Nonfiction.

1971

LITWORK

Introduction To Personality
Holt, Rinehart & Winston of Canada Limited
0030845661 / 978-0030845666
Nonfiction.

1977

LITWORK

Essentials of Psychology
Random House
0394322908 / 978-0394322902
Nonfiction written with Harriet N. Mischel.

1983

OTHER

Mr. Mischel began teaching at Columbia University in 1983.

2014

LITWORK

The Marshmallow Test: Mastering Self-Control
New York: Little, Brown and Company
0316230871 / 978-0316230872
Nonfiction.

2018

DEATH

Walter Mischel died at his home in Manhattan, New York, on September 12, 2018.

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