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According to Wikipedia, 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.

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A cognitive-affective system theory of personality: reconceptualizing situations, dispositions, dynamics, and invariance in personality structure. (1995) (3137)
Toward a cognitive social learning reconceptualization of personality. (1973) (3006)
Delay of gratification in children. (1989) (2944)
A hot/cool-system analysis of delay of gratification: dynamics of willpower. (1999) (2566)
Personality and Assessment (1996) (2523)
Predicting adolescent cognitive and self-regulatory competencies from preschool delay of gratification: Identifying diagnostic conditions. (1990) (1164)
The nature of adolescent competencies predicted by preschool delay of gratification. (1988) (1122)
Cognitive and attentional mechanisms in delay of gratification. (1972) (1116)
Attention in delay of gratification. (1970) (848)
Toward an integrative science of the person. (2004) (798)
Prototypes in Person Perception1 (1979) (792)
Processes in Delay of Gratification (1974) (772)
Reconciling processing dynamics and personality dispositions. (1998) (648)
Traits as prototypes: Effects on recognition memory. (1977) (622)
Beyond déjà vu in the search for cross-situational consistency. (1982) (600)
Prefrontal–striatal pathway underlies cognitive regulation of craving (2010) (578)
Social rejection shares somatosensory representations with physical pain (2011) (532)
When Asking “Why” Does Not Hurt Distinguishing Rumination From Reflective Processing of Negative Emotions (2005) (526)
'Willpower' over the life span: decomposing self-regulation. (2011) (525)
Regulating the interpersonal self: strategic self-regulation for coping with rejection sensitivity. (2000) (524)
Intraindividual stability in the organization and patterning of behavior: incorporating psychological situations into the idiographic analysis of personality. (1994) (482)
Introduction to personality (1971) (434)
On the interface of cognition and personality: Beyond the person–situation debate. (1979) (416)
Cognitive appraisals and transformations in delay behavior. (1975) (404)
Social competence and depression: the role of illusory self-perceptions. (1980) (387)
A conditional approach to dispositional constructs: the local predictability of social behavior. (1987) (387)
Predicting Cognitive Control From Preschool to Late Adolescence and Young Adulthood (2006) (359)
Principles of self-regulation: The nature of willpower and self-control. (1996) (357)
A prototype analysis of psychological situations (1982) (355)
Continuity and change in personality. (1969) (350)
Willpower in a cognitive-affective processing system: The dynamics of delay of gratification. (2004) (349)
Behavioral and neural correlates of delay of gratification 40 years later (2011) (330)
Social competence and depression : The role of illusory self-perceptions (1980) (324)
Preference for delayed reward as a function of age, intelligence, and length of delay interval. (1962) (312)
Modification of self-imposed delay of reward through exposure to live and symbolic models. (1965) (296)
Convergences and challenges in the search for consistency. (1984) (296)
Selective attention to the self: Situational and dispositional determinants. (1973) (294)
From good intentions to willpower. (1996) (272)
Situation-Behavior Profiles as a Locus of Consistency in Personality (2002) (265)
Preschoolers' delay of gratification predicts their body mass 30 years later. (2013) (261)
On the future of personality measurement. (1977) (257)
Influence of affect on cognitive social learning person variables. (1982) (256)
The Development of Children’s Knowledge of Self-Control Strategies (1983) (246)
Cognitive person variables in the delay of gratification of older children at risk. (1989) (236)
Preference for delayed reinforcement: an experimental study of a cultural observation. (1958) (235)
Preference for delayed reinforcement and social responsibility. (1961) (221)
Effects of attention to symbolically presented rewards on self-control. (1973) (208)
Personality dispositions revisited and revised: A view after three decades. (1990) (204)
Internal-external control and persistence: Validation and implications of the Stanford Preschool Internal-External Scale. (1974) (197)
Personality as a Dynamical System: Emergence of Stability and Distinctiveness from Intra and Interpersonal Interactions (2002) (191)
Prototypicality and personality: Effects on free recall and personality impressions (1979) (186)
Integrating dispositions and processing dynamics within a unified theory of personality: The cognitive–affective personality system. (1999) (175)
The role of strategic attention deployment in development of self-regulation: predicting preschoolers' delay of gratification from mother-toddler interactions. (2000) (175)
Waiting for rewards and punishments: effects of time and probability on choice. (1967) (174)
Delay of gratification, need for achievement, and acquiescence in another culture. (1961) (170)
vlPFC–vmPFC–Amygdala Interactions Underlie Age-Related Differences in Cognitive Regulation of Emotion (2016) (169)
Determinants of selective memory about the self. (1976) (167)
The Marshmallow Test: Mastering Self-Control (2001) (166)
Father-absence and delay of gratification: crosscultural comparisons. (1961) (166)
Rejection Sensitivity and Executive Control: Joint predictors of Borderline Personality features. (2008) (166)
DELAY OF GRATIFICATION, MOTIVATION FOR THE PROHIBITED GRATIFICATION, AND RESPONSES TO TEMPTATION. (1964) (164)
The Development of Children's Knowledge of Self-Control Strategies (2005) (164)
From Personality and Assessment (1968) to Personality Science, 2009 (2009) (162)
Toward a unified theory of personality: Integrating dispositions and processing dynamics within the cognitive-affective processing system. (2008) (156)
Comparative effects of the reward stimulus and its cognitive representation in voluntary delay. (1976) (155)
Theory and research on the antecedents of self-imposed delay of reward. (1966) (153)
Effects of expected delay time on the subjective value of rewards and punishments. (1969) (151)
The self as a psycho-social dynamic processing system: A meta-perspective on a century of the self in psychology. (2003) (147)
The role of situational demands and cognitive competencies in behavior organization and personality coherence. (1993) (139)
Strategic attention deployment for delay of gratification in working and waiting situations. (2002) (137)
Self-Regulation in a Cognitive--Affective Personality System: Attentional Control in the Service of the Self (2002) (134)
Regulation of craving by cognitive strategies in cigarette smokers. (2010) (134)
Regulating the Interpersonal Self: Strategic Self-Regulation for Coping With Rejection Sensitivity (2000) (131)
Effects of discrepancies between observed and imposed reward criteria on their acquisition and transmission. (1966) (128)
Effects of temptation-inhibiting and task-facilitating plans on self-control. (1976) (125)
Attentional Mechanisms Linking Rejection to Hostile Reactivity: The Role of “Hot” Versus “Cool” Focus (2002) (123)
Personality coherence and dispositions in a cognitive-affective personality (CAPS) approach. (1999) (120)
Reconciling contextualism with the core assumptions of personality psychology (2000) (117)
The Marshmallow Test: Understanding Self-control and How To Master It (2014) (116)
Conditional hedges and the intuitive psychology of traits. (1988) (108)
The personality of familiar and significant people: the lay perceiver as a social-cognitive theorist. (2001) (108)
Effects of expectancy on working and waiting for larger rewards. (1965) (106)
Young children's preferred attentional strategies for delaying gratification. (1979) (106)
PREDICTING THE SUCCESS OF PEACE CORPS VOLUNTEERS IN NIGERIA. (1965) (106)
Cognitive Social Approach to Dispositional Inferences: What if the Perceiver is a Cognitive Social Theorist? (1993) (105)
Person X situation interactionism in self-encoding (I am...when...): implications for affect regulation and social information processing. (2001) (102)
Advances in personality science. (2002) (97)
Instrumental ideation in delay of gratification. (1974) (97)
Personality Psychology Has Tow Goals: Must It Be Two Fields? (1994) (94)
Incorporating if...then...personality signatures in person perception: beyond the person-situation dichotomy. (2005) (92)
Determinants of the rehearsal and transmission of neutral and aversive behavior. (1966) (91)
The role of purpose in the organization of information about behavior: Trait-based versus goal-based categories in person cognition. (1981) (91)
Plans to Resist Distraction. (1975) (90)
Introduction to personality : toward an integration (2004) (84)
Substantive and structural elements of effective plans for self-control. (1976) (82)
Direct versus indirect personality assessment: evidence and implications. (1972) (82)
The effect of self-distancing on adaptive versus maladaptive self-reflection in children. (2011) (80)
Toward a Unified, Intra-individual Dynamic Conception of Personality☆ (1996) (79)
Model's characteristics as determinants of social learning. (1966) (76)
Intuitive interactionism in person perception: effects of situation--behavior relations on dispositional judgments. (1989) (75)
Effects of success and failure on self-gratification. (1968) (74)
Alternatives in the pursuit of the predictability and consistency of persons: Stable data that yield unstable interpretations. (1983) (70)
Links Between Personality Judgments and Contextualized Behavior Patterns: Situation-Behavior Profiles of Personality Prototypes (1993) (69)
Sustaining delay of gratification over time: A hot-cool systems perspective. (2003) (68)
Roots of Adult Attachment (2011) (68)
Some facets of consistency: Replies to Epstein, Funder, and Bem. (1983) (65)
Verbal intelligence and self-regulatory competencies: Joint predictors of boys’ aggression ☆ (2007) (64)
The transition from childhood to adolescence is marked by a general decrease in amygdala reactivity and an affect-specific ventral-to-dorsal shift in medial prefrontal recruitment (2016) (64)
A Contextual Approach to the Development of Self-regulatory Competencies: The Role of Maternal Unresponsivity and Toddlers’ Negative Affect in Stressful Situations (2005) (62)
Discriminative facility in social competence : conditional versus dispositional encoding and monitoring-blunting of information (1995) (62)
Personality as a stable cognitive-affective activation network: Characteristic patterns of behavior variation emerge from a stable personality structure. (1998) (60)
Introduction to personality : toward an integrative science of the person (2008) (55)
On the empirical dilemmas of psychodynamic approaches: issues and alternatives. (1973) (54)
Curbing Craving (2014) (54)
The Toothbrush Problem (2008) (54)
Maintaining trait consistency in the resolution of behavioral inconsistency: The wolf in sheep's clothing? (1976) (50)
Psychological Aspects of Spirit Possession1 (1958) (48)
The role of power in the adoption of self-reward patterns. (1967) (45)
Toward an Integrative Model for CBT: Encompassing Behavior, Cognition, Affect, and Process. (2004) (41)
The self as a psycho-social dynamic processing system: Toward a converging science of self-hood (2012) (41)
From human papillomavirus (HPV) to cervical cancer: Psychosocial processes in infection, detection, and control (1996) (37)
Dimensionality of brain networks linked to life-long individual differences in self-control (2012) (37)
The situated person. (2010) (37)
Neural Responses to Partner Rejection Cues (2009) (35)
For Review Only Roots of Adult Attachment: Maternal Caregiving at 18 Months Predicts Adult Peer and Partner Attachment (2011) (34)
Effects of purpose on the organization and recall of information in person perception1 (1979) (32)
Gender and Group Process: A Developmental Perspective (2002) (29)
Introduction to Personality: A New Look (1993) (28)
Psychological Interventions and Genetic Testing: Facilitating Informed Decisions About BRCA1/2 Cancer Susceptibility (1998) (28)
Implications of person–situation interaction: getting over the field's borderline personality disorder (1999) (28)
Connecting Clinical Practice to Scientific Progress (2008) (27)
Language and person cognition: effects of communicative set on trait attribution. (1984) (27)
Effects of probability of reward attainment on responses to frustration. (1966) (27)
Applying meta-theory to achieve generalisability and precision in personality science (2006) (26)
From Stimulus Control to Self-Control: Toward an Integrative Understanding of the Processes Underlying Willpower (2010) (26)
Analyzing the construction of consistency in personality. (1982) (26)
When Asking ''Why'' Does Not Hurt Rumination From Reflective Processing of (2005) (25)
CHAPTER 7 Integrating System Approaches to Culture and Personality The Cultural Cognitive – Affective Processing System (2007) (23)
The role of ideation in voluntary delay for symbolically presented rewards (1980) (21)
Cohort Effects in Children’s Delay of Gratification (2018) (21)
The layman's use of trait and behavioral information to predict behavior (1974) (20)
Harnessing willpower and socioemotional intelligence to enhance human agency and potential. (2003) (18)
Mind and brain in delay of gratification. (2014) (18)
Cognitive-Affective Processing System Analysis of Reactions to the O. J. Simpson Criminal Trial Verdict (2010) (18)
[Inorganic components of placenta. I. Water content, dry substances, ash content of mature and immature, normal and pathological human placenta]. (1957) (18)
Facing the issues. (1973) (17)
The effect of the commitment situation on the generalization of expectancies1 (1958) (16)
Self-control theory. (2012) (15)
Cognitive Appraisals and Transformations in Self-Control (1974) (14)
Becoming a Cumulative Science (2009) (14)
CONSISTENCY AND SPECIFICITY IN BEHAVIOR (2013) (14)
Intrusive and avoidant ideation among females pursuing infertility treatment (1998) (13)
Getting lost in the search for large coefficients: reply to Conley. (1984) (12)
Value, information, and conformity behavior1 (1960) (11)
Volition, Self-Control, and Public Policy: Symposium on the Tanner Lecture on Human Values (2014) (11)
[Inorganic components of the placenta. IV. Calcium content of mature & immature, normal & pathological human placenta]. (1958) (11)
Essentials of psychology (1980) (11)
Predicting mid-life capital formation with pre-school delay of gratification and life-course measures of self-regulation ☆ (2019) (11)
Objective and Subjective Rules for Delay of Gratification (2013) (10)
George Kelly’s Anticipation of Psychology (1980) (10)
When smart people behave stupidly: Reconciling inconsistencies in social-emotional intelligence. (2002) (10)
Inferences of Others' Competence Reduces Anticipation of Pain When under Threat (2015) (9)
Authoritarianism and reactions to sputniks. (1959) (9)
Toward a science of the individual: Past, present, future? (2007) (9)
Metacognition at the Hyphen of Social-Cognitive Psychology (1998) (9)
Person × Situation interactionism in self-encoding (I am . . . when . . .) (2001) (9)
The Marshmallow Test (2014) (8)
Alternative Futures for Our Science (2005) (8)
Readings in personality (1973) (7)
Self-Concept, Self-Regulation, and Psychological Vulnerability (2002) (7)
The self as a psychosocial dynamic processing system: A meta-psychological perspective (2003) (6)
[The inorganic components of placenta. II. Sodium content of mature and immature, normal and pathological human placenta]. (1957) (6)
Psychological distance in self-imposed delay of gratification. (1993) (6)
The Self as the Person: A Cognitive Social Learning View1 (1976) (6)
The Development of Childrens' Knowledge of Self-Control. (1979) (6)
Toward an integrative CAPS approach to racial/ethnic relations. (2009) (6)
Behavioral and neural correlates of delay of gratification 40 years later: Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 2011, Vol 108 No. 36:14998-5003. (2012) (6)
Looking for personality. (1992) (6)
Current issues and challenges in personality. (1981) (5)
Epilogue: Self-Regulation, Vulnerability, and Implications for Mental Health (2002) (4)
Reply to Iannetti and Mouraux: What functional MRI responses to physical pain tell us about why social rejection “hurts” (2011) (4)
[The inorganic components of human amniotic fluid]. (1960) (4)
Our Urban Legends: Journal Reviews (2008) (4)
Behavior Therapy's Identity Crisis (1978) (4)
[The water and mineral content of the normal, mature, human umbilical cord]. (1959) (4)
[Effect of folic acid and vitamin B12 on the blood picture of the roentgen irradiated guinea pig]. (1955) (3)
[Inorganic constituents of the placenta. V. Magnesium content of the mature, immature, normal and pathological placenta]. (1958) (3)
The News From Psychological Science (2011) (3)
[Anorganic constituents of the placenta. VI. Total and tissue iron content of mature and imature, normal and pathological, human placenta]. (1958) (3)
Challenging the traditional personality psychology paradigm. (2003) (3)
Toward a cumulative science of persons: Past, present, and prospects. (2001) (3)
Moral Behavior from a Cognitive Social Learning Viewpoint. (1975) (2)
The Construction of Personality: Some Facts and Fantasies about Cognition and Social Behavior. (1971) (2)
[Anorganic components of the placenta. VII. Copper content of mature and immature, normal and pathological human placenta]. (1958) (2)
Applying Cognitive-Affective Processing System (CAPS) Theory to Cultural Differences in Social Behavior (2020) (2)
Longitudinal changes in brain structures related to appetitive reactivity and regulation across development (2019) (2)
[Chemical composition of the human placenta with special consideration of the biogenous amine, choline]. (1956) (2)
The Social–Cognitive Approach to Personality: (2015) (2)
[On the pathogenesis of traumatic uterine rupture in an automobile accident]. (1965) (2)
Variables influencing the generalization of expectancy statements (1956) (2)
Trait Theory Revisited (1986) (1)
Relationships Between Anthropology and Psychology in Field Work. (1958) (1)
[Biogenic amines of the placenta. III. Nicotinic acid and nicotinamide content of mature, immature, normal and pathological human placenta]. (1957) (1)
[Chemical biomorphosis of the placenta]. (1958) (1)
PERSONALITY AND PREDICTION (2013) (1)
Introduction to Personality Psychology W2610 Fall 2007 Time: TR 10:35 - 11:50am Room: 614 Schermerhorn (2008) (1)
Nancy Cantor: A View From The Chancellor’s Office (2011) (1)
A Correction in Melikian's “Preference for Delayed Reinforcement” (1960) (1)
[Mineral components of normal and pathological human placenta, including the trace elements]. (1957) (1)
Delaying Gratification (2004) (1)
A note on remoteness of TAT figures as an interpretive concept. (1959) (1)
Cross-cultural studies of children's ability to delay gratification (1961) (1)
Our Urban Legends: Publishing (2008) (1)
[Therapy with sex hormones in the climacteric]. (1969) (0)
The inorganic constituents of the placenta. 9. Chloride, sulphur and phosphorus contents of mature and premature, normal and pathological human placentae. (1958) (0)
Our Urban Legends: Grants (2008) (0)
[On the behavior of serum copper in women during normal and pathological pregnancy, during the puerperium, in umbilical cord blood and in various gynecological diseases]. (1960) (0)
[Choline content of normal, mature human fetal membrane, umbilical cord and amniotic fluid]. (1960) (0)
[Inorganic components of the placenta. VIII. Zinc content of mature and immature, normal and pathological human placenta]. (1958) (0)
Academic Career Values and Choices: Two Perspectives (2011) (0)
[Biogenic amines in the placenta. II. Report; creatine and creatinine content in human placenta]. (1955) (0)
Overcoming the Weakness of the Will (2014) (0)
PRINCIPLES OF SOCIAL BEHAVIOR (2013) (0)
Self-Instructional Plans and Children's Resistance to Temptation. (1976) (0)
[Magnesium content of blood serum in pregnancy and late toxicoses]. (1958) (0)
THE EFFECT OF FOLIC ACID AND VITAMIN B$sub 12$ ON THE BLOOD FORMATION IN IRRADIATED GUINEA PIGS (1955) (0)
The inorganic constituents of the placenta. 5. Magnesium content of mature and premature, normal and pathological human placentae. (1958) (0)
[Evaluation of atoxylfast lipase determination in blood in cancer diagnosis, with a contribution on atoxylfast blood lipase in gynecological cancer]. (1955) (0)
Delusions in the Caribbean. (1963) (0)
[Blood lipase level of a healthy woman in pregnancy, labor & puerperium and in the newborn infant]. (1955) (0)
Self-Regulation in aCognitive-A¡ective Personality System:AttentionalControl inthe Service ofthe Self (2002) (0)
On the Future of APS Journals (2011) (0)
Preface (1985) (0)
[Pentolysis as a diagnostic aid in cancer]. (1954) (0)
[Spasmonal, a new, highly effective synthetic spasmolytic]. (1956) (0)
[Atoxyl-resistant, quinine-resistant and the total amount of lipase in the blood stream in pregnancy toxicosis]. (1955) (0)
COMMENTARIES (2001) (0)
The inorganic constituents of the placenta. 6. Total and tissue iron content of mature and premature, normal and pathological human placentae. (1958) (0)
T a B L E 1 M O R E on Determinants of Delay of Gratification (0)
[The choline content of the human placenta, its function and its significance for the etiology of toxicosis]. (1954) (0)
5. When Smart People Behave Stupidly (2017) (0)
[Effect of beta-homobetaine and glycine betaine and some of their esters on animals]. (1954) (0)
Delay of Gratification : the Experiments of Walter Mischel (2008) (0)
Most Cited, Least Read? (2011) (0)
[The inorganic components of the placenta. X. The water and mineral content of the erythroblastosis placenta]. (1962) (0)
[The water and mineral content of normal mature human fetal membranes]. (1960) (0)
A random sampler (1964) (0)
Factors in Delaytof Gratification (2007) (0)
Delay of Gratificatio n Children (2019) (0)
The biogenic amines of the placenta. 2. Creatine and creatinine content of the human placenta. (1954) (0)
[Behavior of quinine-fast serum lipase in cancer in women]. (1955) (0)
Comments on “Is a Concept of ‘Self’ Necessary?” (1976) (0)
DRAFT On the Future of Personality Measurement (2007) (0)
[Improved apparatus for paper electrophoresis]. (1956) (0)
[On the iron metabolism of women during pregnancy and on the diaplacental iron exchange between mother and fetus]. (1962) (0)
The inorganic constituents of the placenta. 1. Moisture, dry matter and ash content of mature and premature, normal and pathological human placentae. (1957) (0)
Challenge and Promise for Clinical Psychology. (1969) (0)
[Inorganic components of the placenta. III. Potassium content of the mature & immature, normal & pathological human placenta]. (1958) (0)
Objectives and Strategies in the Layperson's Categorization of Behavior. (1980) (0)
Attachment Roots of Adult Attachment : Maternal Caregiving at 18 Months Predicts Adult Peer and Partner (2011) (0)
So but Have Higher Baseline Craving Than Adults Curbing Craving: Behavioral and Brain Evidence That Children Regulate Craving When Instructed to Do (2014) (0)
[On the alkaline phosphatase in human amniotic fluid]. (1960) (0)
[Creatine and creatinine content of human amniotic fluid and its importance]. (1955) (0)
Can teleological behaviorism account for the effects of instructions on self-control without invoking cognition? (1995) (0)
Desirable Attribute Self Rating (2015) (0)
Can imagining negative consequences reduce cravings for cigarette smoking?: (661622010-009) (2010) (0)
Principles of adoloscent selfȬregulation: The nature of wilpower and selfȬcontrol (1996) (0)

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