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PSYCHOLOGIST

Walter Mischel

1930 - 2018

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Walter Mischel (German: [ˈmɪʃəl]; February 22, 1930 – September 12, 2018) 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Walter Mischel has received more than 375,430 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Walter Mischel is the 139th most popular psychologist (up from 151st in 2019), the 509th most popular biography from Austria (up from 548th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Austrian Psychologist.

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  • 20

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  • 1.95

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Walter Mischel ranks 139 out of 183. Before him are Arnold Gesell, Havelock Ellis, Ernest Jones, Françoise Dolto, David Ausubel, and Stanley Schachter. After him are J. P. Guilford, Roberto Assagioli, Wilfred Bion, Benjamin Libet, Jordan Peterson, and Raymond Moody.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Walter Mischel ranks 171. Before him are June Almeida, Yuan Longping, Luis de Pablo, Israel Kirzner, Stuart Lewis-Evans, and Jānis Pujats. After him are Stephen Smale, Jacques Hamel, Babushka Lady, Jean Ferrat, Ernst Fuchs, and Chus Lampreave. Among people deceased in 2018, Walter Mischel ranks 122. Before him are José Antonio Abreu, Adem Demaçi, Oliver Dragojević, Robert Morris, Avicii, and Paul Andreu. After him are Eduard Uspensky, Joseph Joffo, Nicolas Roeg, Dobri Dobrev, Yoshinobu Ishii, and Luis García Meza.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Walter Mischel ranks 509 out of 1,237. Before him are August Eigruber (1907), Peter Johann Nepomuk Geiger (1805), Hans Gross (1847), Othenio Abel (1875), Marianna Martines (1744), and Iuliu Maniu (1873). After him are Maria von Trapp (1905), Karl Menger (1902), Johann Nestroy (1801), Conchita Wurst (1988), Marietta Blau (1894), and Peter Alexander (1926).

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In Austria

Among psychologists born in Austria, Walter Mischel ranks 11. Before him are Bruno Bettelheim (1903), Otto Rank (1884), Paul Watzlawick (1921), René Spitz (1887), Otto Gross (1877), and Heinz Kohut (1913). After him are Fritz Heider (1896), Emma Eckstein (1865), and Karl H. Pribram (1919).

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