Walter Mischel

Renowned psychologist Walter Mischel, designer of the famous Marshmallow Test, explains what self-control is and how to master it. A child is presented with a marshmallow and given a choice: Eat this one now, or wait and enjoy two later. What will she do? And what are the implications for her behavior later in life? The world's leading expert on self-control, Walter Mischel has proven that the ability to delay gratification is critical for a successful life, predicting higher SAT scores, better social and cognitive functioning, a healthier lifestyle and a greater sense of self-worth. But is willpower prewired, or can it be taught? In The Marshmallow Test, Mischel explains how self-control can be mastered and applied to challenges in everyday life--from weight control to quitting smoking, overcoming heartbreak, making major decisions, and planning for retirement. With profound implications for the choices we make in parenting, education, public policy and self-care, The Marshmallow Test will change the way you think about who we are and what we can be.

Mastering Self-Control

The Marshmallow Test

Otokontrolde Ustalasmak

Marshmallow Testi

After many "out-of-print" years, this volume has been reissued in response to an increasing demand for copies. This reflects that the fundamental questions that motivated this book thirty years ago are still being asked. But more important, the answers -- or at least their outlines -- now seem to be in sight. In 1968, this book stood as an expression of a paradigm crisis in its critique of the state of personality psychology. The last three decades have been filled with controversy and debate about the dilemmas raised here, and then with renewal and fresh discoveries. It therefore seems especially timely to revisit the pages which posed the challenges. Mischel outlined the need to encompass the situation in the study of personality, but with a focus on the acquired meaning of stimuli and on the situation as perceived, viewing the individual as a cognitive-affective being who construes, interprets, and transforms the stimulus in a dynamic reciprocal interaction with the social world. He focused on the idiographic analysis of personality that had originally motivated the field, and the complexity, discriminative facility, and uniqueness of the individual, and sought to connect the expressions of personality to the individual's behavior -- that is, to what people do and not just what they say. Even the intrinsically contextualized "if...then..." expressions of the personality system -- its essential behavioral signatures -- were foreshadowed in this book that fired the opening salvo in a search for "a truly dynamic personality psychology."

Personality and Assessment

Test Marshmallow

امتحان المارشملو 

"Renowned psychologist Walter Mischel, designer of the famous Marshmallow Test, explains what self-control is and how to master it. A child is presented with a marshmallow and given a choice: Eat this one now, or wait and enjoy two later. What will she do? And what are the implications for her behavior later in life? The world's leading expert on self-control, Walter Mischel has proven that the ability to delay gratification is critical for a successful life, predicting higher SAT scores, better social and cognitive functioning, a healthier lifestyle and a greater sense of self-worth. But is willpower prewired, or can it be taught? In The Marshmallow Test, Mischel explains how self-control can be mastered and applied to challenges in everyday life--from weight control to quitting smoking, overcoming heartbreak, making major decisions, and planning for retirement. With profound implications for the choices we make in parenting, education, public policy and self-care, The Marshmallow Test will change the way you think about who we are and what we can be. "--"A child is presented with a marshmallow and given a choice: Eat this one now, or wait and enjoy two later. What will she do? And what are the implications for her behavior later in life? The world's leading expert on self-control, Walter Mischel has proven that the ability to delay gratification is critical for a successful life, predicting higher SAT scores, better social and cognitive functioning, a healthier lifestyle and a greater sense of self-worth. But is willpower prewired, or can it be taught? In The Marshmallow Test, Mischel explains how self-control can be mastered and applied to challenges in everyday life--from weight control to quitting smoking, overcoming heartbreak, making major decisions, and planning for retirement. With profound implications for the choices we make in parenting, education, public policy and self-care, The Marshmallow Test will change the way you think about who we are and what we can be"--

Yuichi Shoda

Ozlem Ayduk

Reflecting the latest developments, this eighth edition paints a picture of the field as a cumulative, integrative science that builds on its rich past. It provides a much more coherent view of the whole functioning individual in the social world. Throughout the chapters, emphasis is placed on practical applications and personal relevance to everyday life in a clear and compelling way. The book also explores the essential features and contributions from the field's heritage

Toward an Integrative Science of the Person

Introduction to Personality

Er viljestyrke og selvkontrol medfødte egenskaber eller noget, man kan lære at beherske? I ’Skumfidustesten – nøglen til selvkontrol’ forklarer psykolog Walter Mischel, manden bag den berømte Skumfidustest, hvad selvkontrol er og udforsker kunsten at mestre den. Skumfidustesten blev første gang udført på Standford University i 1960’erne. I forsøget præsenterede Mischel en række førskolebørn for en skumfidus og et valg: Spis denne ene skumfidus nu, eller få to senere. Det blev begyndelsen på årelange studier i samspillet mellem hjernen, genetik og den menneskelige natur. Nu præsenterer Mischel testens resultater og knytter dem til sin nyeste forskning. De børn, der var i stand til at udsætte deres behovstilfredsstillelse – at udvise selvkontrol – har nemlig vist sig på mange måder at klare sig bedre i deres voksne liv end de børn, der spiste deres skumfidus med det samme. Mischel indkredser med ‘Skumfidustesten’ således de kognitive færdigheder og mentale mekanismer, der ligger til grund for evnen til viljestyrke, og han demonstrerer, hvordan de kan inkorporeres i vores daglige liv.

nøglen til selvkontrol

Skumfidustesten

Daniel Cervone

This definitive volume lays the foundations for an interdisciplinary science of personality. Leading investigators present novel insights and findings from molecular genetics, child and life-span developmental psychology, neuroscience, dynamical systems theory, evolutionary psychology, and social cognition, as well as personality psychology itself, illuminating--and often reformulating--fundamental questions about the nature of personhood. The book sheds new light on the nature and origins of personality and individual differences, and challenges many traditional assumptions. It also points toward compelling new directions for future work in the field.

Advances in Personality Science

Harriet N. Mischel

Essentials of Psychology

This Eighth Edition reflects the new developments within personality psychology, and gives the student a picture of the field as a cumulative, integrative science that builds on its rich past and now allows a much more coherent view of the whole functioning individual in the social world. This revision, subtitled: Toward an Integrative Science of the Person, is committed to making that integration, and its practical applications and personal relevance to everyday life, even more clear and compelling for our students. In this new edition the focus is placed on distilling how findings at each of the six major levels of analysis of personality (trait-disposition, biological, psychodynamic-motivational, behavioral-conditioning, phenomenological-humanistic, and social-cognitive) still speak to and inform each other, and how they add to the current state of the science and its continuing growth.

Introduction to Personality: Toward an Integrative Science of the Person, 8th Edition

Cu toţii vrem să ne atingem scopurile! Să luăm decizii mai bune, să avem mai multă încredere în noi înşine, să ne controlăm emoţiile negative, să nu cedăm în faţa tentaţiilor mărunte, să avem o bună sănătate fizică şi mintală — toate acestea ar fi imposibile în absenţa autocontrolului, fundamentul inteligenței emoționale şi originea oricărei vieți împlinite. Walter Mischel demonstrează că voinţa poate fi educată, dezvăluind abilităţile cognitive şi strategiile prin care autocontrolul poate fi îmbunătăţit. Dacă ne însuşim concluziile sale, care pot fi extrem de utile atât specialiştilor — psihologi, profesori, medici, economişti —, cât şi nespecialiştilor, vom deveni mai motivaţi, mai perseverenţi, mai stăpâni pe noi înşine. Vom putea fi, în sfârşit, aşa cum ne-am dorit întotdeauna!

Walter Mischel

About

Books

Join the club