Preface 1. Psychology of science: an introduction William R. Shadish, Jr., Arthur C. Houts, Barry Gholson and Robert A. Neimeyer Part I. Historical Issues in the Psychology of Science: 2. Fragments of the fragile history of psychological epistemology and theory of science Donald T. Campbell 3. Contributions of the psychology of science to metascience: a call for explorers Arthur C. Houts Part II. The Case for a Psychology of Science: 4. The reflexivity problem in the psychology of science Peter Barker 5. Uneasy chapters in the relationship between psychology and epistemology Cecilia M. Heyes 6. Participatory epistemology and psychology of science Michael J. Mahoney Part III. Creativity and the Psychology of Science: 7. Chance-configuration theory of scientific creativity Dean Keith Simonton 8. A perspectivist approach to the strategic planning of programmatic scientific research William J. McGuire 9. Networks of enterprise in creative scientific work Howard E. Gruber Part IV. Cognition in the Psychology of Science: 10. Cognitive paradigms and the psychology of science Marc De Mey 11. Historical shifts in the use of analogy in science Dedre Gentner and Michael Jeziorski 12. Imagery, metaphor, and physical reality Arthur I. Miller 13. A framework for the cognitive psychology of science Ryan D. Tweney Part V. Social Factors in the Psychology of Science: 14. The psychology of scientific dialogues Ron Westrum 15. The perception and evaluation of quality in science William R. Shadish, Jr. Part VI. Epilogue and Prologue: 16. A preliminary agenda for the psychology of science Robert A. Neimeyer, William R. Shadish, Jr., Eric G. Freedman, Barry Gholson and Arthur C. Houts Author index Subject index.