 The thought of psychology has been around since the late 19th century.Research on the psychology of science began in 1874, the field has seen a substantial expansion of activity in recent years.The specific field of psychology as a science first gained popularity mostly in the 1960s, with Abraham Maslow publishing an influential text on the subject (Maslow, 1966), but this popularity faded, only re-emerging in the 1980s (e.g., Simonton, 1988).