Mischel's education left him frustrated with the orthodox research models of the time, many of which were influenced by the likes of Freud. After graduating from New York University with bachelor's and master's degrees in psychology, he went on to get a Ph.D. (You can hear Mischel explain why in the video by Marcie LaCerte at the top of this page).īorn in Vienna in 1930, his family fled to the United States when Mischel was only 8 years old. But, he said, the thrust of the experiment and its results were often misinterpreted. Mischel was most famous for the marshmallow test, an experiment that became a pop culture touchstone. Walter Mischel, a revolutionary psychologist with a specialty in personality theory, died of pancreatic cancer on Sept.
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