Science as Psychology
Sense-Making and Identity in Science Practice
£37.99
- Authors:
- Lisa M. Osbeck, University of West Georgia
- Nancy J. Nersessian, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Kareen R. Malone, University of West Georgia
- Wendy C. Newstetter, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Date Published: December 2013
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521708418
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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 book is thus a contribution to science studies, the psychology of science, and general psychology.
Read more- Presents an integrated account of science practice, incorporating cognitive, social and personal dimensions
- Provides exciting insight into the lived experience of science practice: transcripts give an accessibility and immediacy to scientific activity
- Presents the research laboratory as a microcosm of human activity, forging a new way of looking at the relation of science to psychology
- Could serve as a textbook in either science studies or psychology
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'In Science as Psychology, three psychologists and an expert in the philosophy and cognitive science of science have produced a valuable contribution that takes the field of psychology of science in fascinating new directions … provides fascinating data about sense-making and identity in scientific laboratories … the book contributes to a valuable trend to elevate the psychology of science to full partnership within science studies.' Paul Thagard, Metascience
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- Date Published: December 2013
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521708418
- length: 288 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 15 mm
- weight: 0.41kg
- contains: 3 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: science and persons
2. Methods of study
3. The problem-solving person
4. The feeling person
5. The positioning person
6. The person negotiating cultural identities
7. The learning person
8. Epilogue: science as psychology: a tacit tradition and its implications.
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