Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics
by Richard H. Thaler · 10 May 2015 · 500pp · 145,005 words
in self-control problems, in the late 1970s that was not the case. But I did unearth two treasures. The first was the work of Walter Mischel, which is now quite well known. Mischel, then at Stanford, was running experiments at a day care center on the school’s campus. A kid
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arm-twisting, the collection of psychologists who showed up at our initial meeting was truly astonishing. We had not just Amos and Danny, but also Walter Mischel, of the Oreo and marshmallow experiment fame, Leon Festinger, who formulated the idea of cognitive dissonance, and Stanley Schachter, one of the pioneers of the
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the research on this topic is that we have more self-control when it comes to the future than the present. Even the kids in Walter Mischel’s marshmallow experiments would have no trouble if today they were given the choice between one marshmallow at 2 p.m. tomorrow or three marshmallows
Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes
by Maria Konnikova · 3 Jan 2013 · 317pp · 97,824 words
of Lady Frances Carfax,” p. 342. “I am inclined to think—.” from The Valley of Fear, Part One, chapter 1: The Warning, p. 5. Postlude Walter Mischel was nine years old when he started kindergarten. It wasn’t that his parents had been negligent in his schooling. It was just that the
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smart. And could it be that it was so simple as all that—a score, and then your intelligence was marked for good? Years later, Walter Mischel and Carol Dweck both found themselves on the faculty of Columbia University. (As of this writing, Mischel is still there and Dweck has moved to
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test. For many years, Carol Dweck has been researching exactly what it is that separates Holmes’s “tut, tut” from Watson’s “wit’s end,” Walter Mischel’s success from his supposed IQ. Her research has been guided by two main assumptions: IQ cannot be the only way to measure intelligence, and
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better, you will become smarter. In other words, you dismiss the notion that something might possibly be beyond human power to penetrate. You think that Walter Mischel’s original IQ score is not only something that should not be a cause for disappointment but that it has little bearing on his actual
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have been generous with their time, support, and encouragement throughout this process, but there are a few in particular I would like to thank here: Walter Mischel, Elizabeth Greenspan, Lyndsay Faye, and all of the lovely ladies of ASH, everyone at the Columbia University Department of Psychology, Charlie Rose, Harvey Mansfield, Jenny
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
by Steven Pinker · 24 Sep 2012 · 1,351pp · 385,579 words
(“The devil made me do it!”) are other expressions of the intuition that self-control is a battle of homunculi in the head. The psychologist Walter Mischel, who conducted classic studies of myopic discounting in children (the kids are given the agonizing choice between one marshmallow now and two marshmallows in fifteen
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majority some people have more self-control than others. Aside from intelligence, no other trait augurs as well for a healthy and successful life.92 Walter Mischel began his studies of delay of gratification (in which he gave children the choice between one marshmallow now and two marshmallows later) in the late
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tactic, with the added bonus that they have not conceded weakness or cowardice by disengaging. Other strategies of self-control are mental rather than physical. Walter Mischel showed that even four-year-olds can wait out a long interval for a double helping of marshmallows if they cover the alluring marshmallow in
Geek Heresy: Rescuing Social Change From the Cult of Technology
by Kentaro Toyama · 25 May 2015 · 494pp · 116,739 words
, or just garden-variety bad luck or bad judgment. You can’t blame a child for not developing good study habits under constant distress. Yet Walter Mischel’s famous “marshmallow study” showed that the capacity to delay gratification – a kind of self-control – expressed at ages four to six is among the
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, addiction). Academic experts sometimes make fine distinctions between these terms, but the concepts are closely related. Among those who champion the primacy of willpower are Walter Mischel, George Ainslie, and Roy Baumeister. Mischel is best known for his “marshmallow experiment” which demonstrated that young children who were able to delay gratification by
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-environmental-degradation-cutting. Ehrenreich, Barbara. (2009). Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America. Metropolitan Books. Eigsti, Inge-Marie, Vivian Zayas, Walter Mischel, Yuichi Shoda, Ozlem Ayduk, Mamta B. Dadlani, Matthew C. Davidson, J. Lawrence Aber, and B. J. Casey. (2006). Predicting cognitive control from preschool to late
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to put their laptops away. Medium.com, https://medium.com/@cshirky/why-i-just-asked-my-students-to-put-their-laptops-away-7f5f7c50f368. Shoda, Yuichi, Walter Mischel, and Philip K. Peake. (1990). Predicting adolescent cognitive and self-regulatory competencies from preschool delay of gratification: Identifying diagnostic conditions. Developmental Psychology 26(6):978
Ultra-Processed People: The Science Behind Food That Isn't Food
by Chris van Tulleken · 26 Jun 2023 · 448pp · 123,273 words
food environment. The most famous test of willpower showed exactly this. The original experiment, better known as the marshmallow experiment, was devised by Stanford’s Walter Mischel in the 1970s. It’s a simple enough idea: leave a child alone in a room with a marshmallow for fifteen minutes and tell them
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’s impact on low-income preschoolers’ preacademic skills: self-regulation as a mediating mechanism. Child Development 2011; 82: 362–78. 26 The Economist. Desire delayed: Walter Mischel on the test that became his life’s work. 2014. Available from: https://www.economist.com/books-and-arts/2014/10/11/desire-delayed. 27
Scarcity: The True Cost of Not Having Enough
by Sendhil Mullainathan · 3 Sep 2014 · 305pp · 89,103 words
control is multifaceted, so we begin by considering one of the many important functions to which it contributes, namely, self-control. In the late 1960s Walter Mischel and his colleagues performed one of the most interesting (at the very least, the cutest) psychology experiments on impulsivity. Mischel’s research staff would seat
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: “What Is a Genius IQ Score?” About.com Psychology, retrieved October 23, 2012, from http://psychology.about.com/od/psychologicaltesting/f/genius-iq-score.htm. Walter Mischel and his colleagues: W. Mischel, E. B. Ebbesen, and A. Raskoff Zeiss, “Cognitive and Attentional Mechanisms in Delay of Gratification,” Journal of Personality and Social
Wait: The Art and Science of Delay
by Frank Partnoy · 15 Jan 2012 · 342pp · 94,762 words
studies that show how heart rate variability matters to our ability to regulate our emotions (a topic we will explore in Chapter 1). In 2010, Walter Mischel and his coauthors suggested that the Bing Nursery experiments and studies of willpower (including brain imaging) are converging on an explanation of self-control that
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focuses on cognitive and neural mechanisms; they do not mention heart rate variability. See Walter Mischel et al., “‘Willpower’ over the Life Span: Decomposing Self-Regulation,” Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Advance Access (September 19, 2010): 1–5. Likewise, Roy Baumeister
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stressful situations; these programs might incorporate findings about heart rate variability. See the SNAP website at http://www.stopnowandplan.com. 23. The original study is Walter Mischel, Ebbe B. Ebbesen, and Antonette Raskoff Zeiss, “Cognitive and Attentional Mechanisms in Delay of Gratification,” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 21(1972): 204–218
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. Subsequent studies include: Harriet Nerlove Mischel and Walter Mischel, “The Development of Children’s Knowledge of Self-Control Strategies,” Child Development 54(1983): 603–619; Walter Mischel, Yuichi Shoda, and Philip K. Peake, “The Nature of Adolescent Competencies Predicted by Preschool Delay of Gratification
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,” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 54(1988): 687–699; Walter Mischel, Yuichi Shoda, and Monica L. Rodriguez, “Delay of Gratification in Children
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,” Science 244(1989): 933–938; and Walter Mischel and Ozlem Ayduk, “Willpower in a Cognitive-Affective Processing System: The Dynamics of Delay of Gratification
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,” in Roy F. Baumeister and Kathleen D. Vohs, eds., Handbook of Self-Regulation: Research, Theory, and Applications, pp. 99–129 (Guilford, 2004). 24. Yuichi Shoda, Walter Mischel, and Philip K. Peake, “Predicting Adolescent Cognitive and Self-Regulatory Competencies from Preschool Delay of Gratification: Identifying Diagnostic Conditions,” Developmental Psychology 26(6, 1990): 978
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: The Link Between Emotional Regulation and Vagal Tone,” in Richard A. Fabes, ed., Emotions and the Family, pp. 265–283 (Haworth Press, 2002). 25. See Walter Mischel et al., “‘Willpower’ over the Life Span: Decomposing Self-Regulation,” Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Advance Access (September 19, 2010): 1–5, at 2. 26
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in the last chapter, there’s a strategy available that might well induce future generations to rebuild the bridges that have disappeared. During the 1960s, Walter Mischel, a psychology professor then on the faculty at Stanford, conceived of a revolutionary experiment designed to measure an individual’s capacity for self-control.1
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, manage emotions, and control thoughts. “Psychologists call them personality traits, [but] the rest of us sometimes think of them as character.”14 Inspired broadly by Walter Mischel’s earlier work on the marshmallow test and keyed generally to the concern that contemporary American education fails students too frequently, a field of research
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O N T R O L Imagine that it is 1970 and you are a four-year-old child in an experiment being conducted by Walter Mischel at Stanford University. \ o u are brought into a room at your preschool where a nice man gives you toys and plays with you for
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by Robert M. Sapolsky · 1 May 2017 · 1,261pp · 294,715 words
capacity to regulate emotions and behavior. The most iconic demonstration of this revolves around an unlikely object—the marshmallow.20 In the 1960s Stanford psychologist Walter Mischel developed the “marshmallow test” to study gratification postponement. A child is presented with a marshmallow. The experimenter says, “I’m going out of the room
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