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Table of Contents:

• Introduction & history
• Introduction : another brick in the wall / Gregory J. Feist & Michael E. Gorman
• History of the psychology of science / Steve Fuller
• Learning science through inquiry / Corinne Zimmerman & Steve Croker
• Cognitive-historical approaches to the understanding of science / Ryan Tweney
• The scientific personality / Gregory Feist
• Scientific communication in the process to coauthorship / Sofia Liberman & Kurt Bernardo Wolf
• Scientific reasoning : explanation, confirmation bias, and scientific practice / Barabara Koslowski
• The nature of scientific reasoning and its neurological substrate / Antwon Lawson
• Children as scientific thinkers / David Klahr, Bryan Matlen & Jamie Jirout
• Creative genius in science / Dean Simonton
• Gender and science : psychological imperatives / Neelam Kumar
• Conflicts, cooperation, and competition in the fields of science and technology / Anna Dorothea Schulze and Verena Seuffert
• Postmodernism and the development of the psychology of science / Capaldi & Proctor
• Psychobiography and the psychology of science / William McKinley Runyan
• The psychology of technological invention / Michael E. Gorman
• The psychology of research groups : creativity and performance / Sven Hemlin & Lisa Olsson
• The psychology of human research participation / Anne Moyer
• Heuristics and biases that help and hinder scientists : toward a
• Psychology of scientific judgment and decision making / Joanne Kane & Gregory D. Webster

• The psychology of uncertainty in scientific data analysis / Christian D. Schunn & J. Gregory Trafton
• Quantitative trends in establishing a psychology of science : a review of the metasciences / Gregory D. Webster
• Conclusions and the future of the psychology of science / Michael E. Gorman & Gregory J. Feist.

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Contributors:

Feist, Gregory J.

Gorman, Michael E., 1952-

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Subjects:

Science — Psychological aspects

Science and psychology

Science

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Physical Description:

xiii, 526 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Call Numbers:

Q175 .H2646 2013

ISBNs:

9780826106230
0826106234
9780826106247 (ebk.) [Invalid]

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2012033698

OCLC Numbers:

692289970