Walter Mischel

     
Institution
Columbia University

Current Position
Niven Professor of Psychology

Highest Degree
Ph.D. in Psychology from Ohio State, 1956

Research Interests
Emotion
Motivation/Goal Setting
Personality
Self/Identity
Social Cognition

Courses Taught
Controversial Issues in Social and Personality Psychology
Personality

 
Walter Mischel
Department of Psychology
406 Schermerhorn Hall
1190 Amsterdam Avenue
New York, New York 10027
U.S.A.

Home Page
Phone: (212) 854-8450


Walter Mischel
Walter Mischel has research interests in personality structure, process, and development, and in self-regulation (aka willpower).

His professional activities and honors include the following: National Academy of Sciences (Elected 2004); Merit Award, National Institute of Mental Health, 1989 up to 2009 (awarded twice, sequentially); 2005 Jack Block Award for Distinguished Contributions to Personality Psychology; President, Association for Research in Personality, 2002-2003 (elected); Distinguished Scientist Award, Society of Experimental Social Psychologists (awarded in 2000); Fellow of the Society of Experimental Psychologists (elected 1999); Editor, Psychological Review, 2000-2003; Doctor of Science, Honoris Causa, Ohio State University, June 1997; Niven Professor of Humane Letters, Columbia University, 1994-present; Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (elected 1991); Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award, American Psychological Association, 1982; Distinguished Scientist Award, American Psychological Association, Division of Clinical Psychology, 1978


Books:

  • Mischel, W., Shoda, Y., & Smith, R. E. (2004). Introduction to personality: Toward an integration (7th ed.). New York: Wiley.

Journal Articles:

  • Ayduk, O., Mendoza-Denton, R., Mischel, W., Downey, G., Peake, P.K., & Rodriguez, M. (2000). Regulating the interpersonal self: Strategic self-regulation for coping with rejection sensitivity. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 79, 776-792.
  • Eigsti, I., Zayas, V., Mischel, W., Shoda, Y., Ayduk, O., Dadlani, M. B., Davidson, M. C., Aber, J. L., & Casey, B. J. (in press). Predictive cognitive control from preschool to late adolescence and young adulthood. Psychological Science.
  • Kross, E., Ayduk, O., & Mischel, W. (2005). When asking “why” doesn’t hurt: Distinguishing rumination from reflective processing of negative emotions. Psychological Science, 16, 709-715.
  • Metcalfe, J., & Mischel, W. (1999). A hot/cool system analysis of delay of gratification: Dynamics of willpower. Psychological Review, 106, 3-19.
  • Mischel, W., & Shoda, Y. (1995). A cognitive-affective system theory of personality: Reconceptualizing situations, dispositions, dynamics, and invariance in personality structure. Psychological Review, 102, 246-268.
  • Mischel, W., Shoda, Y., & Mendoza-Denton, R. (2002). Situation-behavior profiles as a locus of consistency in personality. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 11, 50-54.
  • Mischel, W., Shoda, Y., & Rodriguez, M. L. (1989). Delay of gratification in children. Science, 244, 933-938.
  • Sethi, A., Mischel, W., Aber, L., Shoda, Y., & Rodriguez, M. (2000). The role of strategic attention deployment in development of self-regulation: Predicting preschoolers’ delay of gratification from mother-toddler interactions. Developmental Psychology, 36, 767-777.

Other Publications:

  • Mischel, W. (2004). Toward an integrative science of the person (Prefatory Chapter). Annual Review of Psychology, 55, 1-22.
  • Mischel, W., & Ayduk, O. (2004). Willpower in a cognitive-affective processing system: The dynamics of delay of gratification. In R. F. Baumeister & K. D. Vohs (Eds.), Handbook of self-regulation: Research, Theory, and Applications (pp. 99-129). New York: Guilford.

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