by Walter Mischel · DEBATE · tapa dura · ISBN 9788499925042
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«El test de la golosina» is the psychology essay by Walter Mischel, published by Debate in hardcover (304 pages, in Spanish).
Based on the marshmallow test, in which children could wait to receive two treats instead of eating one immediately. Mischel analyzes self-control and its influence on academic success, health and self-esteem, and explains how to strengthen it in everyday challenges such as dieting, quitting smoking or planning for retirement.
Translation by Joaquín Chamorro Mielke. Hardcover edition with dust jacket, published in April 2015. Part of the Debate Psychology collection.
For readers interested in psychology, education and personal development who want to understand how self-control works in daily life.
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.
