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...either to cure cancer or engineer a deadly virus, someone with great empathic insight could use it to inspire colleagues or exploit them. Without a moral compass to guide people in how to employ their gifts, emotional intelligence can be used for good or evil. Columbia University psychologist Walter Mischel, who invented the marshmallow test and others like it, observes that the knack for delaying gratification that makes a child one marshmallow richer can help him become a better citizen or--just as easily--an even more brilliant criminal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE: THE EQ FACTOR | 10/2/1995 | See Source »

Actually, only one tree usually accompanies the band, but some graduated bark came back for the occasion. The real tree, Stanford sophomore Judy Mischel, says being a tree isn't easy. "I'm supposed to skip around and just act crazy but I get molested." Fifty people wanted the job of being tree for a year, but Judy got it because she was the first to show...

Author: By Lucy M. Schulte, | Title: B.C. Played Football; Stanford Just Played | 9/23/1980 | See Source »

...students to whom we offer an example. Mr. Greenwald has rightly drawn attention to the miserable consequences which can arise when novel techniques are applied with more enthusiasm than care. We are sure that he cannot intend that responsibilities are lessened just because research is "fascinating." Bendan Maher, Walter Mischel, Justin Welss, Jonas Cohier, Irving Gottesman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ON MR. GREENWALD | 3/19/1962 | See Source »

...following appointments have been recently announced: Dr. Benjamin Castleman, professor of Pathology; John Dearden, C. Wickham Skinner, Arthur N. Turner, and Paul A. Vatter, associate professors of Business Administration; Walter Mischel and Thomas F. Pettigrew, lecturers in Psychology; John D. Baldeachwieler and Richard H. Holm, assistant professors of Chemistry. Also, William H. Bond, lecturer on Bibliography; Howard Ulfedler, Joe Vincent Meigs Professor of Gynecology; James Vorenberg '48, professor of Law; Philip J. McNiff, Archibald Cary Coolidge Biographer; and Eric G. Ball, Edward S. Wood Professor of Biological Chemistry...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Announce Appointments | 3/16/1962 | See Source »

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