The Marshmallow Test - Understanding Self-control and How to Master It

Draws on decades of compelling research and examples to explore the nature of willpower, identifying the cognitive skills and mental mechanisms that enable it and showing how these can be applied to challenges in everyday life - from weight control to quitting smoking, overcoming heartbreak, making major decisions, and planning for retirement.

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Walter Mischel
• Publisher: Bantam UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2014
• EAN: 9780593071328
• ISBN: 978-0-593-07132-8
• No. of pages: 326
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 233 mm x 24 mm
• Series: Bantam Press
• Subjects: Guides > Health; Lebenshilfe (psychisch), Psychologie, Selbstmanagement