A personality psychologist who experimentally studied delay of gratification. Manipulations of what children attended to while waiting tested how representations of an immediate reward affected waiting time. This makes self-regulation a process sensitive to cognitive strategies and task conditions, rather than treating a single waiting score as an immutable personal trait.[ref]
Cognitive and attentional mechanisms in delay of gratification by Walter Mischel and others. 1972, experimental attention manipulations, pp. 204–218
Portrait of Walter Mischel
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