Science as psychology : sense-making and identity in science practice

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Title:

Author:

Osbeck, Lisa M., 1962- author.

ISBN:

9780521708418

9780521882071

9780511933653

Edition:

First paperback edition.

Physical Description:

viii, 279 pages ; 24 cm

Contents:

Introduction: science and persons -- Methods of study -- The problem-solving person -- The feeling person -- The positioning person -- The person negotiating cultural identities -- The learning person -- Epilogue: science as psychology: a tacit tradition and its implications.

Subject Term:

Engineering -- Research.

Problem solving -- Social aspects.

Added Author:

Osbeck, Lisa M., 1962-

Nersessian, Nancy J.,

Malone, Kareen R.,

Newstetter, Wendy C.,

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Summary

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.