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| Experiment Execution | 138 |
| Data Interpretation | 140 |
| Publication | 140 |
| Pitfall Examples | 141 |
| Group Objectivity | 143 |
| 7. Evidence Evaluation and Scientific Progress | 146 |
| Judgment Values | 147 |
| Evaluation Aids | 151 |
| Confirmation and Refutation of Hypotheses | 156 |
| Power of Evidence | 157 |
| Hypothesis Modification | 159 |
| Paradigm and Scientific Revolution | 161 |
| Pitfalls of Evidence Evaluation | 164 |
| Hidden Influence of Prior Theory on Evidence Evaluation | 164 |
| Incremental Hypotheses and Discoveries | 165 |
| 'Fight or Flight' Reaction to New Ideas | 165 |
| Confusing the Package and Product | 166 |
| Pitfall Examples | 166 |
| 8. Insight | 168 |
| Role of Insight in Science | 169 |
| Characteristics of Insight | 170 |
| Conditions Favoring Insight | 171 |
| Obstacles to Insight | 173 |
| The Royal Way | 175 |
| How Does Insight Work? | 176 |
| Alternative Paths to Insight | 178 |
| Unexpected Results | 178 |
| Transfer from other Disciplines | 178 |
| Breakthroughs by Amateurs: the Outsider Perspective | 179 |
| From Puzzle Solving… | 180 |
| …To Mystical Experience | 181 |
| 9. The Scientist's World | 183 |
| Scientist and Lay Person | 183 |
| Science and Society | 184 |
| Science and the Arts | 187 |
| Science and Pseudoscience | 187 |
| Applied and Basic Research | 189 |
| Conflict: Applied vs. Basic Research | 189 |
| Changing Goals for Applied and Basic Research | 191 |
| Resolution: Bridging the Gap | 192 |
| Big Science versus Little Science | 193 |
| Ego and the Scientific Pecking Order | 194 |
| 10. The Scientist | 197 |
| Scientists' Characteristics | 197 |
| Essential Characteristics | 197 |
| Common Characteristics | 199 |
| Cooperation or Competition? | 202 |
| Science Ethics | 205 |
| Publication | 207 |
| A Scientist's Life: Changing Motivations | 210 |
| Process and Product | 211 |
| References | 214 |
| Name Index | 225 |
| Subject Index | 228 |
