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Science 8 September 2006:
Vol. 313. no. 5792, pp. 1390 - 1391
DOI: 10.1126/science.1132467
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PSYCHOLOGY:
How Do Scientists Think?

David Lagnado

The Psychology of Science and the Origins of the Scientific Mind
by Gregory J. Feist
Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2006. 336 pp. $38, £25. ISBN 0-300-11074-X.
Discussing the evolutionary origins of the human mind and the role of psychological forces in shaping individuals' scientific interests and talents, Feist argues for a discipline of the psychology of science.
The reviewer is in the Department of Psychology, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK. E-mail: d.lagnado{at}ucl.ac.uk

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