| LC control no. | n 79151503 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Mischel, Walter |
| Associated country | United States |
| Located | Bensonhurst (New York, N.Y.) |
| Birth date | 1930-02-22 |
| Death date | 2018-09-12 |
| Place of birth | Vienna (Austria) |
| Place of death | Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) |
| Field of activity | Psychology Self-control Personality |
| Affiliation | Columbia University Stanford University Harvard University University of Colorado |
| Profession or occupation | Psychologists College teachers |
| Found in | His Personality and assessment, 1968. Info. converted from 678, 2012-10-02 (b. 1930) New York times WWW site, viewed Sept. 17, 2018 (in obituary published Sept. 14: Walter Mischel; b. Feb. 22, 1930, Vienna; the family fled the Nazis in 1938 and, after stops in London and Los Angeles, settled in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn in 1940; d. Wednesday [Sept. 12, 2018], Manhattan, aged 88; his studies of delayed gratification in young children clarified the importance of self-control in human development; his work led to a broad reconsideration of how personality is understood) |
| Associated language | eng |
| Invalid LCCN | n 50033547 |
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