Nathan Kogan

Kogan's Jewish^[4] parents immigrated to the United States from Poland and Ukraine.^[1] He was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, on May 2, 1926.^[1] He attended Lehigh University, graduating in 1948, and attended graduate school at Harvard University.^[2][5] He initially studied animal learning while at Harvard, but switched to cognition.^[2] He graduated in 1954 with a PhD.^[2][6]

Until his death, Kogan remained active in psychology.^[1] He died on April 28, 2013, at age 86^[2] in Princeton, New Jersey.^[1]

Kogan received the Sir Francis Galton Award from the International Association for Empirical Aesthetics; the Farnsworth Award from the Society for the Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts; and the SAGES Award from the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues.^[2] He served as president of the Society for the Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts twice and was a fellow of the American Psychological Association, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Gerontological Society of America.^[2]