His research was in the fields of cognitive, personality, social, developmental, and evolutionary psychology.
[2] He served as professor emeritus of psychology at the New School for Social Research and was a visiting scholar at Educational Testing Service.
[2][3] Kogan's Jewish[4] parents immigrated to the United States from Poland and Ukraine.
[2][5] He initially studied animal learning while at Harvard, but switched to cognition.
[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.