Why your personality runs hot and cold

We constantly transform who we are by what we do, veteran psychologist Walter Mischel tells JP O’Malley

THE last time you were introduced to a stranger, did you form an impression about them immediately? American psychologist, Walter Mischel, 84, says this is normal.

“What you know about me, so far, is based on whatever knowledge you’ve acquired after talking to me. But it’s going to miss 90% of what I am really like,” he says.