by Walter Mischel · Little, Brown and Company · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780316230865
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«The Marshmallow Test» is the psychology essay by Walter Mischel, published by Little, Brown and Company in hardback (336 pages, in English).
The book starts from the famous marshmallow experiment and explains how delaying gratification influences academic success, health and well-being. Mischel argues that self-control can be trained and offers strategies for applying it to everyday problems such as quitting smoking or planning for retirement.
The book's full subtitle is «Why Self-Control Is the Engine of Success».
Aimed at readers of psychology, personal development and parenting, and at those who want to understand willpower and habits.
Walter Mischel was an Austrian-born American psychologist specializing in personality theory and social psychology. He was the Robert Johnston Niven Professor of Humane Letters in the Department of Psychology at Columbia University. A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked Mischel as the 25th most cited psychologist of the 20th century.
