Walter Mischel

The Marshmallow Test

Why Self-Control Is the Engine of Success

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Psychologist Walter Mischel, designer of the well-known Marshmallow Test, explains what self-control is and how to master it.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Little, Brown and Company
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. September 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 208mm x 141mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 294g
• ISBN-13: 9780316230865
• ISBN-10: 0316230863
• Artikelnr.: 42279276

Autorenporträt

Walter Mischel holds the Robert Johnston Niven chair as professor of humane letters in psychology at Columbia University. He is the author of more than two hundred scientific papers as well as the coauthor of Introduction to Personality, now in its eighth edition. He has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and has won the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award of APA and the Grawemeyer Award for Psychology. He lives in New York.

Rezensionen

The Marshmallow Test is a tour de force. Despite its serious academic content, it wears its learning lightly ... this book will make [Mischel] as much of a household name as his marshmallows are. Natalie Gold The Times