The Palgrave Encyclopedia of the Possible

Vlad P. Glăveanu, PhD, is Full Professor of psychology in the School of Psychology, Dublin City University, and Professor II at the Centre for the Science of Learning and Technology, University of Bergen. He is the founder and president of the Possibility Studies Network (PSN). His work focuses on creativity, imagination, culture, collaboration, wonder, possibility, and societal challenges. He edited the Palgrave Handbook of Creativity and Culture (2016) and the Oxford Creativity Reader (2018), co-edited the Cambridge Handbook of Creativity Across Domains (2017) and the Oxford Handbook of Imagination and Culture (2017), authored The Possible: A Sociocultural Theory (Oxford University Press, 2020), Creativity: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2021), and Wonder: The Extraordinary Power of an Ordinary Experience (Bloomsbury, 2020), and authored or co-authored more than 200 articles and book chapters in these areas. Dr. Glăveanu co-edits the book series Palgrave Studies in Creativity and Culture with Palgrave and the Cambridge Series on Possibility Studies with Cambridge University Press. He is editor of Europe’s Journal of Psychology (EJOP), an open-access peer-reviewed journal published by PsychOpen (Germany) as well as Possibility Studies and Society, launched by Sage in 2022. In 2018, he received the Berlyne Award from the APA Division 10 for outstanding early career contributions to the field of aesthetics, creativity, and the arts.

Advisory Board:

Alessandro Antonietti, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan, Italy

Arjun Appadurai, New York University, USA

Baptiste Barbot, Pace University, USA

Ronald A. Beghetto, University of Connecticut, USA

Kerry Chappell, University of Exeter, UK

Edward Clapp, Harvard University, USAGiovanni Corazza, Bologna University, Italy

Andrea Gaggioli, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan, Italy

Alex Gillespie, London School of Economics, UKMichael Hanchett Hanson, Columbia University, USA

Pernille Hviid, Copenhagen University, Denmark

Sandra Jovchelovitch, London School of Economics, UK

Maciej Karwowski, University of Wrocław, Poland

James C. Kaufman, University of Connecticut, USA

Todd Lubart, Paris Descartes University, France

Paul March, Oxford University, UK

Luis de Miranda, Uppsala University, Sweden

Alfonso Montuori, California Institute of Integral Studies, USA

Takeshi Okada, University of Tokyo, Japan

Jonathan Plucker, Johns Hopkins University, USA

Roberto Poli, University of Trento, Italy

Roni Reiter-Palmon, University of Nebraska Omaha, USA

Mark Runco, University of Georgia, USA

Joel Schmidt, University of Applied Management, Germany

Zayda Sierra, University of Antioquia, Colombia

Dean Keith Simonton, University of California, Davis, USA

Robert Sternberg, Cornell University, USA

Marie Taillard, ESCP Europe, UK

Min Tang, University of Applied Management, Germany

Frederic Vallee Tourangeau, Kingston University, UK

Jaan Valsiner, Aalborg University, Denmark

Jakob Waag Villadsen, University of Copenhagen

Brady Wagoner, Aalborg University, DenmarkChristian Werner, Privatuniversität Schloss Seeburg, Austria

Tania Zittoun, University of Neuchatel, Switzerland