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Science as Psychology : Sense-making and Identity in Science Practice by Lisa M. Osbeck Phd, Nancy J. Nersessian Phd, Kareen R. Malone Phd, Wendy C. Newstetter is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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 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 co

Who reads Science as Psychology : Sense-making and Identity in Science Practice?

Author

Lisa M. Osbeck Phd, Nancy J. Nersessian Phd, Kareen R. Malone Phd, Wendy C. Newstetter

Publisher

Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780521708418

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Engineering, Social Science, Social Sciences