Uncovering the metaphysics of psychological warfare
The social science behind the Psychological Strategy Board's operations planning, 1951–1953
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 7864895 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Gabrielle Kemmis (Australian Centre of Public History, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, School of Communication University of Technology Sydney Australia, autor de correspondencia) |
| Año | 2020 |
| Volumen | 56 |
| Número | 3 |
| Páginas | 186-200 |
| Fecha de publicación | 2020-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sí |
| Open Access | Sí |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 0022-5061 • E-ISSN: 1520-6696 |
| Editorial | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/jhbs.22018 |
| PMID | 31867737 |
| OpenAlex | W2995425194 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Referencias citadas | 29 |
In April 1951 president Harry S. Truman established the Psychological Strategy Board to enhance and streamline America's sprawling psychological warfare campaign against the USSR. As soon as the Board's staff began work on improving US psychological operations, they wondered how social science might help them achieve their task. Board Director, Gordon Gray, asked physicist turned research administrator Henry Loomis to do a full review of America's social science research program in support of psychological operations. Loomis willingly accepted the task. This paper documents Loomis's investigation into America's social science research program. It uncovers the critical role that government departments had in the creation of research in the early 1950s and thus highlights that the government official is an important actor in the history of social science and the application of social science to psychological operations at the beginning of the Cold War
Cold war · Government (linguistics) · Gray (unit) · Management · Metaphysics · On board · Political science · Politics · Psychological research · Psychological science · Public relations · Sociology · Task (project management) · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology · Engineering · History of Science and Medicine · Law · Medicine · Psychology · Social Psychology · Twentieth Century Scientific Developments
Military enterprise and technological change
From Whirlwind to Mitre
Psychologists on the March
Working Knowledge
The Cold War and the United States Information Agency
Parting the Curtain
Empire of Ideas
Cold-War Propaganda in The 1950s
Public Opinion in Soviet Russia
Governing the grapevine
Propaganda, psychological warfare and communication research in the USA and the Soviet Union during the Cold War
Project Vista and Nuclear Weapons in Europe
The United States and "Psychological Warfare" in Italy, 1948-1955
The Making of the Cold War Enemy
The Politics of Propaganda
Undermining the Kremlin
Public Opinion in Soviet Russia; A Study in Mass Persuasion
Armed with Expertise
This war for men's minds
Public Opinion in Soviet Russia
The Historiography of Contemporary Science and Technology
Mathematical Models, Rational Choice, and the Search for Cold War Culture
Current Trends
The Utilization of Social Scientists in the Overseas Branch of the Office of War Information
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| Altamente citado | No |