Walter Mischel was born on February 22, 1930 in Vienna, Austria. In 1938 he and his family had to leave Vienna because of the Nazi occupation. They settled in Brooklyn, New York. Mischel graduated as valevictorian of his high-school class and received a scholarship to New York University.
Originally enrolling in a premedical course, Mischel redirected his focus toward psychology and earned a bachelor’s degree in 1951. He studied at New York University and was very interested in Psychoanalysis. He recieved a Ph.D. in clinical psychology in 1956 from Ohio State University at the age of 26.
He became a social worker and worked with juvenile delinquents. He began his professional career at the University of Colorado from 1956 to 1958. He then taught at Harvard University from 1958 to 1962, and Stanford University from 1962 to 1983.Mischel went to Trinidad to study religious cults that practiced spirtiual possession. He observed there that some people could reject small immediate rewards in favour of larger but delayed rewards. They also had higher needs for achievement and they showed more social responsibility. This is what began Mischel's interest in delayed gratifiication.
In the late 1960s Mischel began a study on delayed gratification—the ability to abstain from instant but less-desirable outcomes in favour of deferred but more-desirable outcomes. This breakthrough research demonstrated not only that willpower can be learned but also that it seems to be “a protective buffer against the development of all kinds of vulnerabilities later in life,” as Mischel concluded, thereby implying that self-control is key to both academic and personal success (Surhone, Timpledon & Marseken, 2010)
Mischel has had many honors in his life; he was elected president of the association for psychological science in 2007-2008 and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2004. He recieved the distinguished Scientist award of the Society of Experimental Social Psychologists, the Distiguished Contibutions to Personality Award of the Society of Social and Personality Psychologist ,and the Distinguished Scientist Award of American Psychological Associations Division of Clinical Psychology. He is also past editor of Psychological Review
Mischel also won the University of Louisville The Grawemeyer Awardfor Psychology for his work on delayed gratification, self-control, and willpower.
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Walter Mischel was born on February 22, 1930 in Vienna, Austria. In 1938 he and his family had to leave Vienna because of the Nazi occupation. They settled in Brooklyn, New York. Mischel graduated as valevictorian of his high-school class and received a scholarship to New York University.
Originally enrolling in a premedical course, Mischel redirected his focus toward psychology and earned a bachelor’s degree in 1951. He studied at New York University and was very interested in Psychoanalysis. He recieved a Ph.D. in clinical psychology in 1956 from Ohio State University at the age of 26.
He became a social worker and worked with juvenile delinquents. He began his professional career at the University of Colorado from 1956 to 1958. He then taught at Harvard University from 1958 to 1962, and Stanford University from 1962 to 1983.Mischel went to Trinidad to study religious cults that practiced spirtiual possession. He observed there that some people could reject small immediate rewards in favour of larger but delayed rewards. They also had higher needs for achievement and they showed more social responsibility. This is what began Mischel's interest in delayed gratifiication.
In the late 1960s Mischel began a study on delayed gratification—the ability to abstain from instant but less-desirable outcomes in favour of deferred but more-desirable outcomes. This breakthrough research demonstrated not only that willpower can be learned but also that it seems to be “a protective buffer against the development of all kinds of vulnerabilities later in life,” as Mischel concluded, thereby implying that self-control is key to both academic and personal success (Surhone, Timpledon & Marseken, 2010)
Mischel has had many honors in his life; he was elected president of the association for psychological science in 2007-2008 and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2004. He recieved the distinguished Scientist award of the Society of Experimental Social Psychologists, the Distiguished Contibutions to Personality Award of the Society of Social and Personality Psychologist ,and the Distinguished Scientist Award of American Psychological Associations Division of Clinical Psychology. He is also past editor of Psychological Review
Mischel also won the University of Louisville The Grawemeyer Awardfor Psychology for his work on delayed gratification, self-control, and willpower.