All that stuff (ESP, eugenics, IQ fetish, & social psychology) was pervasive in "hard science fiction" of Astounding/Analog, where Dune was serialized. One big Astounding writer, Mark Clifton, worked as industrial psychologist. So all in the mix.
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Kennedy era counter-insurgency (with the idea of "winning hearts and minds" by going native like the green berets) was also part of the mix, I think. It's a very Cold War book, although prophetic of the war on terror.
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