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Cohen-Cole, Jamie Nace.

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Thinking about thinking in Cold War America.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Thinking about thinking in Cold War America./
Author:	Cohen-Cole, Jamie Nace.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2003,
Description:	393 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-10, Section: A, page: 3812.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International64-10A.
Subject:	American history. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3107869
ISBN:	9780496554171

Thinking about thinking in Cold War America.
Cohen-Cole, Jamie Nace.

Thinking about thinking in Cold War America. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2003 - 393 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-10, Section: A, page: 3812.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Princeton University, 2003.

This dissertation examines normative and descriptive constructions of thinking in cold war America. It highlights how democratic thinking, academic thinking, and human thinking were interconnected. Social critics believed that American democracy depended on open-mined, flexible, autonomous, and creative thinking. In contrast, they held that the opposite characteristics---closed minded, narrow, rigid, and conformist thinking---typified authoritarian or prejudiced people. Citizens equipped with the right set of mental characteristics could also solve a set of problems that social critics identified in modern America. Where mass society endangered American individualism and threatened to alienate Americans both from one another and from the government, people possessing sufficient autonomy and creativity could ameliorate these problems and help America retain its democratic and individualistic nature.

ISBN: 9780496554171Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122692
American history.

Thinking about thinking in Cold War America.
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520 $a The mental characteristics that made good citizens also made good intellectuals: both exhibited open-minded, flexible, and pluralist thinking. This preference for flexible cognitive traits appeared in methodological struggles across the social sciences from sociology to psychology and anthropology. It also led to disdain for disciplinary focus and widespread enthusiasm for interdisciplinary methods as social scientists found interdisciplinary study to be inherently valuable.
520 $a Intellectuals' opinions about how they or their colleagues thought were thoroughly intertwined with their opinions about both human nature and democratic character. As a consequence, nominally objective scientific descriptions of normal human nature both informed and borrowed from normative visions of democratic character and exemplary academic thought. The emergence of the field of cognitive psychology was conducted in the most political of ways, involving the academic politics of right-thinking. Cognitivists and their behavioristic opponents struggled to capture the high-ground of true scientific thinking. Here the struggle was about which group of psychologists were better thinkers. Additionally, cognitive psychology's very specific vision of human nature was a product of an academic community that often elided differences between right thinking and normal thinking. Cognitivists argued that humans are flexible and autonomous by comparing them implicitly to individualistic, democratic Americans and explicitly to flexible, creative scientists. As a consequence, the exemplary member of the academic community and the ideal American citizen became the universal model of human nature.
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