Gorman - Handbook of the Psychology of Science

HANDBOOK OF THE

Psychology of Science

Gregory J. Feist, PhD, is an associate professor of Psychology in Personality and Adult Development and director of the Experimental Graduate Program in Psychology at San Jose State University. He is widely published in the psychology of creativity, the psychology of science, and the development of scientific talent.

Michael E. Gorman, PhD, is a professor at the University of Virginia, where he has taught such classes as Scientific and Technological Thinking and Social Implications of Nanotechnology. From 2000 to 2003, he was chair of the Division of Technology, Culture, and Communication. He is also an associate editor of Journal of Psychology of Science and Technology.

HANDBOOK OF THE

Gregory J. Feist, PhD

Michael E. Gorman, PhD

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Handbook of the psychology of science / editors, Gregory J. Feist, PhD & Michael E. Gorman, PhD.

pages cm

Includes index.

ISBN 978-0-8261-0623-0 ISBN 978-0-8261-0624-7 (ebk.) (print)

1. SciencePsychological aspects. 2. Science and psychology. I. Feist, Gregory J. II. Gorman, Michael E., 1952

Q175.H2646 2013

501.9dc23 2012033698

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I dedicate this book to my lovely wife, Erika,
and two vibrant sons Jerry and Evan.

GJF

E. J. Capaldi, PhD

Department of Psychological Sciences

Purdue University

West Lafayette, Indiana

Steve Croker, PhD

Department of Psychology

Illinois State University

Normal, Illinios

Gregory J. Feist, PhD

Associate Professor of Psychology

Director, MA Program for Psychological Science

San Jose State University

San Jose, CA

Steve Fuller, PhD

Department of Sociology

University of Warwick

Coventry, United Kingdom

Michael E. Gorman, PhD

Professor

University of Virginia

Charlottesville, Virginia

Sven Hemlin, PhD

Department of Psychology

University of Gothenburg

Gothenburg, Sweden

Jamie Jirout, PhD

Department of Psychology

Temple University

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Joanne E. Kane, PhD

Department of Psychology

Princeton University

Princeton, New Jersey

David Klahr, PhD

Department of Psychology

Carnegie Mellon University

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Barbara Koslowski, EdD

Department of Human Development

Cornell University

Ithaca, New York

Neelam Kumar, PhD

National Institute of Science and Technology Development

New Delhi, India

Anton E. Lawson, PhD

School of Life Sciences

Arizona State University

Tempe, Arizona

Sofia Liberman, PhD

Facultad de Psicologi

Universidad Nacional Autnoma de Mxico

Mexico City, Mexico

Bryan Matlen, PhD

Department of Psychology

Carnegie Mellon University

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Anne Moyer, PhD

Department of Psychology

Stony Brook University

Stony Brook, New York

Lisa Olsson, PhD

Department of Psychology

University of Gothenburg

Gothenburg, Sweden

Robert W. Proctor, PhD

Department of Psychological Sciences

Purdue University

West Lafayette, Indiana

William McKinley Runyan, PhD

School of Social Welfare

Institute of Personality and Social Research

University of California

Berkeley, California

Anna Dorothea Schulze, PhD

Institute of Psychology

Humboldt Universitt zu

Berlin Berlin, Germany

Christian D. Schunn, PhD

Learning Research and Development Center

University of Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Verena Seuffert, MA

Institute of Psychology

Humboldt Universitt zu

Berlin Berlin, Germany

Dean Keith Simonton, PhD

Department of Psychology

University of California

Davis, California

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HCI Laboratory

Naval Research Laboratory

Washington, DC

Ryan D. Tweney, PhD

Department of Psychology

Bowling Green State University

Bowling Green, Ohio

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Department of Psychology

University of Florida

Gainesville, Florida

Kurt Bernardo Wolf, PhD

Instituto de Ciencias Fsicas

Universidad Nacional Autnoma de Mxico