PSYCHOLOGIST

Walter Mischel

1930 - 2018

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Walter Mischel (German: [ˈvaltɐ ˈmɪʃl̩]; 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 396,428 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Walter Mischel is the 147th most popular psychologist (down from 139th in 2019), the 540th most popular biography from Austria (down from 507th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Austrian Psychologist.

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Walter Mischel ranks 147 out of 235. Before him are Françoise Dolto, Roberto Assagioli, Jordan Peterson, Alexander Bain, Harry Harlow, and Ernest Jones. After him are Rensis Likert, Georgi Lozanov, Fritz Heider, Benjamin Spock, David Ausubel, and Jonathan Haidt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Walter Mischel ranks 197. Before him are Yuri Artyukhin, Elza Soares, Jean Ferrat, Hussain Muhammad Ershad, Pyotr Bolotnikov, and Katherine Jackson. After him are John Barth, Clifford Brown, Tadao Kobayashi, Néstor Almendros, Ernst Fuchs, and Georges Descrières. Among people deceased in 2018, Walter Mischel ranks 141. Before him are Moshé Mizrahi, Jalaluddin Haqqani, Roger Piantoni, Eunice Gayson, Ola Ullsten, and Trần Đại Quang. After him are Sergio Marchionne, Nancy Roman, Per Kirkeby, Abdel Rahman Swar al-Dahab, Rachid Taha, and Darío Castrillón Hoyos.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Walter Mischel ranks 540 out of 1,424. Before him are Maximilian Grabner (1905), Ilse Aichinger (1921), Max Nettlau (1865), Michael Mayr (1864), Margaret of Austria, Electress of Saxony (1416), and Archduke Peter Ferdinand of Austria (1874). After him are Princess Marie Louise of Hanover (1879), Anton Karas (1906), Kazimierz Twardowski (1866), Bernhard Wicki (1919), Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria (1882), and Fritz Heider (1896).

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In Austria

Among psychologists born in Austria, Walter Mischel ranks 12. Before him are Otto Rank (1884), Paul Watzlawick (1921), Otto Gross (1877), René Spitz (1887), Heinz Kohut (1913), and Otto F. Kernberg (1928). After him are Fritz Heider (1896), Emma Eckstein (1865), Karl H. Pribram (1919), and Marie Jahoda (1907).

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