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Classic Exemplar Books

  • Campbell, D. T. (1988). Epistemology and methodology for social science. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  • Carey, S. (1987). Conceptual change in childhood. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
  • De Mey, M. (1992). The cognitive paradigm. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  • Eiduson, B.T. (1962). Scientists: Their psychological world. New York: Basic Books.
  • Faust, D. (1984). The limits of scientific reasoning. University of Minnesota Press.
  • Fuller, S. (1993, 2nd edition). Philosophy of science and its discontents. New York: Guilford Press.
  • Galton, F. (1874). English men of science. London: Macmillan.
  • Giere, R. (Ed.)(1992). Cognitive models of science. Minneapolis, MN: Minnesota University Press.
  • Giere, R. (Ed.)(1988). Explaining Science. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  • Gholson, B., Shadish, W.R., Neimeyer, R.A., & Houts, A.C. (Eds.) (1989). The psychology of science: Contributions to metascience. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Gooding, D. (1990). Experiment and the making of meaning: Human agency in scientific observation and experiment. Dordrecht: Kluwer.
  • Gopnik, A., Meltzoff, A. N.,  & Kuhl, P. K. (1999). The scientist in the crib: Minds, brains, and how children learn. New York: William Morrow and Co.
  • Gorman, M. E. (1992). Simulating science: Heuristics, mental models and technoscientific thinking. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
  • Gruber, H.E. (1981). Darwin on man: A psychological study of scientific creativity. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 
  • Inhelder, B., & Piaget, J. (1958). The growth of logical thinking from childhood to adolescence.  New York: Basic Books.
  • Koslowski, B. (1996). Theory and evidence: The development of scientific reasoning. Cambridge: MIT Press.
  • Kuhn, D., Amstel, E., & O'Loughlin, M. (1988). The development of scientific thinking skills. New York: Academic Press.
  • Langley, P., Simon, H. A., Bradshaw, G. L., & Zykow, J. M. (1987). Scientific discovery: Computational explorations of the creative processes. Cambridge: MIT Press.
  • Mahoney, M.J. (1976). Scientist as subject. Ballinger Publishing.
  • Mitroff, I. (1974). The subjective side of science. Amsterdam: Elsevier.
  • Piaget, J. (1952). The child’s concept of number. New York: Norton.
  • Roe, A. (1952). The making of a scientist. New York: Dodd, Mead. 
  • Rosenthal, R. (1976). Experimenter effects in behavioral research (enlarged edition). New York. Irvington Publishers.
  • Shadish, W. R., & S. Fuller. (Eds.). (1994). Social psychology of science. New York: Guilford Press.
  • Simonton, D.K. (1988). Scientific genius: A psychology of science. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press. 
  • Sulloway, F. (1996). Born to rebel: Birth order, family dynamics, and creative lives. New York: Pantheon.
  • Suppe, F. (Ed.) (1977). Structure of scientific theories. Champaign, IL: Univserity of Illinois Press.
  • Taylor, C.W., & Barron, F. (1963). Scientific creativity: Its recognition and development. New York: John Wiley & Sons.
  • Thagard, P. (1992). Conceptual revolutions. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.  
  • Tweney, R.D., Doherty, M.E., & Mynatt, C.R. (Eds.), (1981). On scientific thinking. New York: Columbia University Press.

 

Books Since 2000

  • Andersen, H., Barker, P., & Chen, X. (2006). The cognitive structure of scientific revolutions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Carruthers, P., Stich, S., & Siegal, M. (Eds.) (2002).  The cognitive basis of science. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Feist, G.J. (2006). The psychology of science and the origins of the scientific mind. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
  • Geisler, E. (2000). The metrics of science and technology. Westport, CT: Greenwood.
  • Geisler, E. (2001). Creating value with science and technology. Westport, CT: Greenwood.
  • Gorman, M.E., Tweney, R.D., Gooding, D.C., & Kincannon, A. (Eds.). (2004). Scientific and technological thinking. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
  • Klahr, D. (2000). Exploring science: The cognition and development of discovery processes. Cambridge: MIT Press.
  • Simonton, D.K. (2004). Creativity in science: Chance, logic, genius, and Zeitgeist.  Cambridge,  England: Cambridge University Press.

 

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