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.

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发现心理战的形而上学：心理战略委员会行动计划背后的社会科学，1951-1953年

1951年4月，总统哈里·杜鲁门（Harry S. Truman）成立了心理策略委员会，以加强和简化美国针对苏联进行的庞大的心理战。董事会工作人员开始致力于改善美国的心理操作后，他们想知道社会科学如何帮助他们完成任务。董事会董事戈登·格雷（Gordon Gray）要求物理学家转为研究管理员亨利·鲁米斯（Henry Loomis）对美国支持心理学操作的社会科学研究计划进行全面审查。鲁米斯愿意接受这项任务。本文记录了Loomis对美国社会科学研究计划的调查。