Walter Mischel

53.2k total citations · 15 hit papers
230 papers, 33.8k citations indexed

About

Walter Mischel is a scholar working on Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Walter Mischel has authored 230 papers receiving a total of 33.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 62 papers in Clinical Psychology, 56 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 43 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Walter Mischel's work include Personality Traits and Psychology (25 papers), Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (22 papers) and Social and Intergroup Psychology (19 papers). Walter Mischel is often cited by papers focused on Personality Traits and Psychology (25 papers), Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (22 papers) and Social and Intergroup Psychology (19 papers). Walter Mischel collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Canada. Walter Mischel's co-authors include Yuichi Shoda, Peter Madison, Philip K. Peake, Mónica Rodríguez, Janet Metcalfe, Ebbe Β. Ebbesen, Özlem Ayduk, Jack C. Wright, Nancy Cantor and Ethan Kross and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

In The Last Decade

Walter Mischel

219 papers receiving 29.9k citations

Hit Papers

Personality and Assessment 1958 2026 1980 2003 1968 1995 1989 1973 1999 1000 2.0k 3.0k
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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Personality and Assessment
    1968 3.1k citations Walter Mischel et al. profile →
  2. A cognitive-affective system theory of personality: Reconceptualizing situations, dispositions, dynamics, and invariance in personality structure.
    1995 2.5k citations Walter Mischel, Yuichi Shoda profile →
  3. Delay of Gratification in Children
    1989 2.2k citations Walter Mischel, Yuichi Shoda et al. profile →
  4. Toward a cognitive social learning reconceptualization of personality.
    1973 2.1k citations Walter Mischel profile →
  5. A hot/cool-system analysis of delay of gratification: Dynamics of willpower.
    1999 1.8k citations Walter Mischel et al. profile →
  6. Cognitive and attentional mechanisms in delay of gratification.
    1972 805 citations Walter Mischel et al. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology profile →
  7. Predicting adolescent cognitive and self-regulatory competencies from preschool delay of gratification: Identifying diagnostic conditions.
    1990 737 citations Yuichi Shoda, Walter Mischel et al. Developmental Psychology profile →
  8. The nature of adolescent competencies predicted by preschool delay of gratification.
    1988 604 citations Walter Mischel, Yuichi Shoda et al. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology profile →
  9. Attention in delay of gratification.
    1970 569 citations Walter Mischel et al. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology profile →
  10. The nature of adolescent competencies predicted by preschool delay of gratification.
    1988 551 citations Walter Mischel, Yuichi Shoda et al. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology profile →
  11. Toward an Integrative Science of the Person
    2004 548 citations Walter Mischel profile →
  12. Prefrontal–striatal pathway underlies cognitive regulation of craving
    2010 542 citations Ethan Kross, Walter Mischel et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  13. Social rejection shares somatosensory representations with physical pain
    2011 424 citations Ethan Kross, Marc G. Berman et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  14. Introduction to personality
    1971 335 citations Walter Mischel profile →
  15. Preference for delayed reinforcement: An experimental study of a cultural observation.
    1958 178 citations Walter Mischel profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Walter Mischel United States 82 12.2k 11.8k 8.9k 7.2k 7.2k 230 33.8k
Shelley E. Taylor United States 112 15.3k 1.3× 20.4k 1.7× 8.8k 1.0× 11.5k 1.6× 15.0k 2.1× 284 55.4k
H. J. Eysenck United Kingdom 93 15.3k 1.3× 11.5k 1.0× 12.2k 1.4× 3.9k 0.5× 6.2k 0.9× 671 41.7k
Bernard Weiner United States 72 5.8k 0.5× 13.1k 1.1× 5.8k 0.6× 2.7k 0.4× 9.9k 1.4× 205 32.0k
Peter Salovey United States 98 13.0k 1.1× 25.7k 2.2× 7.0k 0.8× 7.1k 1.0× 7.9k 1.1× 276 45.5k
Richard E. Nisbett United States 84 4.1k 0.3× 17.7k 1.5× 8.0k 0.9× 3.6k 0.5× 14.3k 2.0× 171 45.4k
Anthony G. Greenwald United States 89 7.9k 0.6× 21.6k 1.8× 8.9k 1.0× 8.3k 1.2× 29.3k 4.1× 229 56.0k
H.J. Eysenck United Kingdom 46 15.3k 1.2× 12.0k 1.0× 5.8k 0.6× 3.7k 0.5× 9.1k 1.3× 202 41.9k
John A. Bargh United States 87 4.7k 0.4× 17.7k 1.5× 8.8k 1.0× 8.1k 1.1× 17.4k 2.4× 211 41.9k
Kathleen D. Vohs United States 81 7.3k 0.6× 12.8k 1.1× 7.1k 0.8× 9.5k 1.3× 11.1k 1.5× 233 34.3k
Lyn Y. Abramson United States 83 20.6k 1.7× 9.9k 0.8× 13.3k 1.5× 4.3k 0.6× 4.0k 0.6× 276 35.1k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Kross, Ethan, Marc G. Berman, Walter Mischel, Edward E. Smith, & Tor D. Wager. (2011). Social rejection shares somatosensory representations with physical pain. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 108(15). 6270–6275. 424 indexed citations breakdown →
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Mischel, Walter. (2009). Becoming a Cumulative Science. APS observer. 22(1). 12 indexed citations
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Mischel, Walter, Yuichi Shoda, & Özlem Ayduk. (2008). Introduction to personality : toward an integrative science of the person. John Wiley & Sons eBooks. 39 indexed citations
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Mischel, Walter. (2008). Our Urban Legends: Publishing. APS observer. 21(8). 1 indexed citations
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Mischel, Walter. (2008). Our Urban Legends: Journal Reviews. APS observer. 21(9). 2 indexed citations
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Mischel, Walter. (2005). Alternative Futures for Our Science. APS observer. 18(3). 7 indexed citations
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Mischel, Walter. (2004). Introduction to personality : toward an integration. 50 indexed citations
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Cervone, Daniel & Walter Mischel. (2002). Advances in personality science.. Guilford Press eBooks. 187 indexed citations
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Peake, Philip K., Michelle R. Hebl, & Walter Mischel. (2002). Strategic attention deployment for delay of gratification in working and waiting situations.. Developmental Psychology. 38(2). 313–326. 28 indexed citations
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Wright, Jack C. & Walter Mischel. (1988). Conditional hedges and the intuitive psychology of traits.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 55(3). 454–469. 69 indexed citations
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Mischel, Walter. (1963). Der diaplacentare Transport stereoisomerer Aminos�uren. Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics. 198(1). 181–184. 2 indexed citations
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Mischel, Walter. (1960). Der Wasser- und Mineralgehalt der normalen, reifen menschlichen Eihaut. Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics. 194(2). 126–137. 1 indexed citations
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Mischel, Walter. (1959). Die anorganischen Bestandteile der Placenta. Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics. 191(4). 345–368. 1 indexed citations
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Mischel, Walter. (1959). Der Wasser- und Mineralgehalt der normalen, reifen menschlichen Nabelschnur. Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics. 192(1). 85–95. 3 indexed citations
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Mischel, Walter. (1958). Die anorganischen Bestandteile der Placenta. Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics. 190(4). 384–393. 3 indexed citations
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Mischel, Walter. (1958). Die anorganischen Bestandteile der Placenta. Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics. 191(2). 101–108. 3 indexed citations
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Mischel, Walter. (1958). Die anorganischen Bestandteile der Placenta. Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics. 191(1). 1–7. 3 indexed citations
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Mischel, Walter. (1958). Die anorganischen Bestandteile der Placenta. Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics. 190(6). 638–652. 5 indexed citations
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Mischel, Walter. (1957). Die anorganischen Bestandteile der Placenta. Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics. 190(2). 111–121. 5 indexed citations
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Mischel, Walter. (1956). Variables influencing the generalization of expectancy statements. OhioLink ETD Center (Ohio Library and Information Network). 1 indexed citations

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