by Walter Mischel · Siedler Verlag · tapa dura · ISBN 9783827500434
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«Der Marshmallow-Test» is the psychology essay by Walter Mischel, published by Siedler Verlag in hardcover (395 pages, in German).
Drawing on the famous marshmallow experiment, Walter Mischel analyzes how delaying a reward influences personality. Children who held out without eating a treat to receive two tended to show more self-control and confidence in adulthood; the author explains the psychological mechanisms of this ability and how it can be trained.
The work originally appeared in English as «The Marshmallow Test» (2014); this 2015 German edition is listed as a Der Spiegel bestseller.
Recommended for readers of psychology, personal development and education, particularly those interested in the formation of self-control from childhood.
Walter Mischel 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.
