  The psychology of science is the least developed member of the family of
science studies. It is growing, however, increasingly into a promising
discipline. After a very brief review of this emerging sub-field of psychology,
we call for it to be invited into the collection of social sciences that
constitute the interdisciplinary field of science policy. Discussing the
classic issue of resource allocation, this paper tries to indicate how prolific
a new psychological conceptualization of this problem would be. Further, from a
psychological perspective, this research will argue in favor of a more
realistic conception of science which would be a complement to the existing one
in science policy.
