Walter Mischel

Walter Mischel (German: [%CB%88m%C9%AA%CA%83%C9%99l]; 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.

Mischel was born on February 22, 1930 in Vienna, Austria, to Salomon Mischel and the former Lola Leah Schreck. When he was 8 years old his Jewish family fled with him to the United States after the Nazi occupation in 1938.

Mischel lived on Manhattan Island in New York City, and enjoyed painting and travel. He had three children: Linda Mischel, Rebecca Mischel, and Judy Mischel. Mischel spoke several languages, including English and French, and spent time in Paris, France on a regular basis. He died at his home in New York from pancreatic cancer on September 12, 2018

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Mischel

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/14/obituaries/walter-mischel-dead.html

Dr. Mischel was probably best known for the marshmallow test, which challenged children to wait before eating a treat. That test and others like it grew in part out of Dr. Mischel’s deepening frustration with the predominant personality models of the mid-20th century

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Walter-Mischel

https://www.newsday.com/news/nation/walter-mischel-dead-obit-1.2110...