Author
Walter Mischel
Walter Mischel (1930–2018) was an American psychologist born in Vienna who emigrated to the United States with his family as a child. He worked at Stanford and Columbia, devised the marshmallow test, and studied self-control and personality for many years.
Books in Livria
- The Marshmallow Test: Mastering Self-Control
A child is offered one marshmallow now or two after waiting. The experiment’s creator explains how children managed to wait, which self-control techniques adults can borrow, and what happened to the children decades…