The Palgrave Encyclopedia of the Possible: (The Palgrave Encyclopedia of the Possible)

The Palgrave Encyclopedia of the Possible represents a comprehensive resource for researchers and practitioners interested in an emerging multidisciplinary area within psychology and the social sciences: the study of how we engage with and cultivate the possible within self, society and culture. Far from being opposed either to the actual or the real, the possible engages with concrete facts and experiences, with the result of transforming them. This encyclopedia examines the notion of the possible and the concepts associated with it from standpoints within psychology, philosophy, sociology, neuroscience and logic, as well as multidisciplinary fields of research including anticipation studies, future studies, complexity theory and creativity research. Presenting multiple perspectives on the possible, the authors consider the distinct social, cultural and psychological processes - e.g., imagination, counterfactual thinking, wonder, play, inspiration, and manyothers - that define our engagement with new possibilities in domains as diverse as the arts, design and business.

Table of Contents:
Abnormal.- Absent.- Actual.- Aesthetics.- Awe.- Anticipation.- Anticipation studies.- Artificial intelligence.- As-if thinking.- Bakhtin, Mikhail.- Bergson, Henri.- Bruner, Jerome.- Creativity.- Counterfactual thinking.- Culture.- Curiosity.- Dewey, John.- Divergent thinking.- Dystopia Emergence.- Empathy.- Ethics.- Fantasy.- Fiction.- Free will.- Freud, Sigmund.- Future.- Future studies.- Games.- Heidegger, Martin.- Here and now.- History of the possible.- Hope.- Imagination.- Impossible.- Mead, George Herbert.- Nietzsche, Friedrich.- Perspective taking.- Piaget, Jean.- Play / Pretend play.- Poetry.- Polyphony.- Possibility thinking.- Potential.- Probabilistic thinking.- Real.- Reality.- Resistance.- Sartre, Jean Paul.- Science fiction.- Social change.- Symbolic function.- Symbols.- Opportunity.- Technology.- The possible in anthropology.

About the Author :
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 authoredor 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