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Science as Psychology

Science as Psychology

Osbeck, Lisa M.
Malone, Kareen R.
Nersessian, Nancy J.

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Technology & EngineeringGeneral Psychology

ISBN10: 0521882079
ISBN13: 9780521882071
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Nov 22 2010
Pages: 288
Weight: 1.30
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Science as Psychology reveals the complexity and richness of rationality by demonstrating how social relationships, emotion, culture, and identity are implicated in the problem-solving practices of laboratory scientists. In this study, the authors gather and analyze interview and observational data from innovation-focused laboratories in the engineering sciences to show how the complex practices of laboratory research scientists provide rich psychological insights, and how a better understanding of science practice facilitates understanding of human beings more generally. The study focuses not on dismantling the rational core of scientific practice, but on illustrating how social, personal, and cognitive processes are intricately woven together in scientific thinking. The authors argue that this characterization illustrates a way of addressing the integration problem in science studies - how to characterize the fluid entanglements of cognitive, affective, material, cultural, and other dimensions of discovery and problem solving. Drawing on George Kelly's person as scientist metaphor, the authors extend the implications of this analysis to general psychology. The book is thus a contribution to science studies, the psychology of science, and general psychology.

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