Then, you tell her she will get two marshmallows if she can resist eating the marshmallow while you leave the room. First, you sit a kid in front of a delicious marshmallow. His idea, which you've probably heard of, was simple enough. So, he set out on different path in 1960, using preschoolers from Stanford University's Bing Nursery School as his study subjects. Mischel believed these models failed to adequately consider context, both the particular experimental situation and people's internal goals. 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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