The Open Mind: Cold War Politics and the Sciences of Human Nature

(University of Chicago Press) What does cognitive science have to do with Cold War culture? In The Open Mind, Cohen-Cole examines how the development of a scientific vision of the autonomous, rational, and creative self became a staple of early Cold-War-era culture — and how people subsequently began to question the relationship between political centrism and the scientific account of human nature. Cohen-Cole is an assistant professor of American studies at George Washington University