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E ver since McClelland's (1961) work on the relationship between independence training, achievement motivation, and industrial output, scholars have been interested in psychological factors that might be involved in entrepreneurial behavior. In some ways the professional literature has paralleled the popular wisdom, with substantial research attention devoted to the study of such things as Creativity is defined as the balanced unfolding and converging of experience and entrepreneurship as the management of radical change. The entrepreneur is seen ? in contrast to the view in mainstream economics ? as a visionary activist, who is able to constructively handle the often conflicting demands of unplannable emerging situations. The Cognitive Psychology of Entrepreneurship 107 human beings apprehend data and process it. The rich variety of approaches can o?er an equally rich variety of insights. A comprehensive resource presenting the state-of-the-art entrepreneurship research. With contributions from leading scholars in the field, The Wiley Handbook of Entrepreneurship provides a comprehensive overview of current findings in entrepreneurship research. The text covers a broad range of topics and reviews methodological, theoretical, and paradigm developments in the area. Taken together, these arguments expand scholarly conversations at the intersection of entrepreneurship and cognition by raising new questions about how and with what effects people think about entrepreneurial ability. Entrepreneurial cognition research is at a crossroads, where static views give way to dynamic approaches. This Handbook draws on a variety of perspectives from experts in the field of entrepreneurial cognition to highlight the key elements in a socially-situated view, where cognition is action-oriented embodied, socially-situated, and distributed. Written by leading scholars, The Wiley Handbook of Entrepreneurship provides a distinctive overview of methodological, theoretical a