Vlad Glaveanu

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Vlad Glăveanu, PhD, is Full Professor of Psychology in the School of Psychology and Director of the DCU Centre for Possibility Studies at 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. He 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. 

Book Chapter

Year Publication
2022 Vlad P. Glăveanu (2022) 'Societies of the Possible' In: [Link] [DOI]
2023 Vlad Glaveanu; Giovanni Corazza; Ingunn Ness (2023) 'Dialogical provocations: A creative trialogue' In: Creative Provocations: Speculations on the Future of Creativity, Technology & Learning. Cham : Springer. [Link] [DOI]
2022 Vlad Glaveanu (2022) 'Sociocultural approaches to creativity' In: Creativity and Innovation: Theory, Research, and Practice. London : Routledge. [Link]
2022 Soila Lemmetty; Kaija Collin; Vlad Glaveanu; Susanna Paloniemi (2022) 'Capturing actions of communities: Towards virtual ethnography and digital tools in researching organisations and workplace learning' In: Methods for Researching Professional Learning and Development. Cham : Spinger. [DOI]
2022 Vlad Glaveanu (2022) 'Ignorance and (im)possibility' In: Embodied, extended, ignorant minds: New studies on the nature of not-knowing. Cham : Springer. [Link] [DOI]
2022 Vlad Glaveanu (2022) 'Not knowing' In: Uncertainty: A Catalyst for Creativity, Learning and Development. Cham : Springer. [Link] [DOI]
2022 Vlad Glaveanu (2022) 'Creativity and culture: Four (mis)understandings' In: Homo Creativus. Cham : Springer. [Link] [DOI]
2022 Ronald Beghetto; Vlad Glaveanu (2022) 'The beautiful risk of moving toward pedagogies of the possible' In: The Palgrave Handbook of Transformational Giftedness for Education. London : Palgrave. [Link] [DOI]
2022 Vlad Glaveanu (2022) 'Creativity can change the world, and change it for the better' In: Creativity, emotions, and the arts: Research, application and impact. Santander, Spain : Fondacion Botin.
2022 Vlad Glaveanu (2022) 'What' In: The Art of Serendipity. Cham : Springer. [Link] [DOI]

Peer Reviewed Journal

Year Publication
2024 Sternberg, Robert J.; Glaveanu, Vlad; Kaufman, James C. (2024) 'In Quest of Creativity: Three Paths toward an Elusive Grail'. Creativity Research Journal, 36 (1). [DOI]
2022 Vlad Glaveanu; James C Kaufman (2022) 'Building off creativity to move from gifted to gifting'. Gifted Education International, . [Link] [DOI]
2022 Vlad P. Glăveanu (2022) 'Possibility studies: A manifesto'. Possibility Studies & Society, . [Link] [DOI]
2023 Richard, V.; Glăveanu, V.; Aubertin, P. (2023) 'The Embodied Journey of an Idea: An Exploration of Movement Creativity in Circus Arts'. Journal of Creative Behavior, 57 . [Link] [DOI]
2022 Vlad P. Glăveanu; Luis de Miranda (2022) 'Co-Creating the Real: A Transdisciplinary Dialogue'. Qualitative Inquiry, . [Link] [DOI]
2021 Constance de Saint Laurent; Vlad P. Glăveanu; Ioana Literat (2021) 'Internet Memes as Partial Stories: Identifying Political Narratives in Coronavirus Memes'. Social Media + Society, . [Link] [DOI]
2021 Vlad P. Glăveanu; Alex Gillespie (2021) 'Cognition stays wild: A commentary on Ross and Vallée-Tourangeau’s Rewilding Cognition'. Journal of Trial and Error, . [Link] [DOI]
2020 Vlad Petre Glăveanu; James C. Kaufman (2020) 'The Creativity Matrix: Spotlights and Blind Spots in Our Understanding of the Phenomenon'. The Journal of Creative Behavior, . [Link] [DOI]
2020 Ludvig Johan Torp Rasmussen; Vlad Petre Glăveanu; Lars Domino Østergaard (2020) '“The principles are good, but they need to be integrated in the right way”: Experimenting with Creativity in Elite Youth Soccer'. Journal of Applied Sport Psychology, . [Link] [DOI]
2020 Vlad P. Glăveanu (2020) 'A Sociocultural Theory of Creativity: Bridging the Social, the Material, and the Psychological'. Review of General Psychology, . [Link] [DOI]
2020 Soila Lemmetty; Vlad Petre Glăveanu; Kaija Collin; Panu Forsman (2020) '(Un)Sustainable Creativity? Different Manager-Employee Perspectives in the Finnish Technology Sector'. Sustainability, . [Link] [DOI]
2020 Ludvig Johan Torp Rasmussen; Vlad Petre Glăveanu; Lars Domino Østergaard (2020) 'Exploring the multifaceted role of creativity in an elite football context'. Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health, . [Link] [DOI]
2019 Vlad Petre Glaveanu (2019) 'Being other: Intersubjectivity, allocentrism and the possible'. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, . [Link] [DOI]
2019 Rasmussen, Ludvig J. T.; Ostergaard, Lars D.; Glaveanu, Vlad P. (2019) 'Creativity as a developmental resource in sport training activities'. SPORT EDUCATION AND SOCIETY, 24 (5):491-506. [DOI]
2019 Vlad Petre Glaveanu; Michael Hanchett Hanson; John Baer; Baptiste Barbot; Edward P. Clapp; Giovanni Emanuele Corazza; Beth Hennessey; James C. Kaufman; Izabela Lebuda; Todd Lubart; Alfonso Montuori; Ingunn J. Ness; Jonathan Plucker; Roni Reiter-Palmon; Zayda Sierra; Dean Keith Simonton; Monica Souza Neves-Pereira; Robert J. Sternberg (2019) 'Avances en la teoría e investigación de la creatividad: Un manifiesto sociocultural'. UNIPLURIVERSIDAD, . [Link] [DOI]
2017 Vlad P. Glăveanu; James C. Kaufman (2017) 'Socializing Giftedness: Toward an ACCEL-S Approach'. Roeper Review, . [Link] [DOI]
2023 Wendy Ross; Vlad Glaveanu (2023) 'The constraints of habit: craft, repetition, and creativity'. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, . [Link] https://doi.org/10.1007/s11097-023-09902-5
2023 Rosss Anderson; Ronald Beghetto; Vlad Glaveanu; Marina Basu (2023) 'Is curiosity killed by the CAT? A divergent, open-ended, and generative (DOG) approach to creativity assessment'. Creativity Research Journal, . [Link] https://doi.org/10.1080/10400419.2022.2157588
2023 Catrinel Tromp; Vlad Glaveanu (2023) 'A Model of Creative Aging (MOCA): Unlocking the potential of constraints for creativity in older adults'. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, . [Link] https://doi.org/10.1037/aca0000538
2022 James Kaufman; Vlad Glaveanu (2022) 'Positive creativity in a negative world'. Education Sciences, 12 (3). [Link] https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci12030193
2022 James Kaufman; Vlad Glaveanu (2022) 'Making the CASE for Shadow Creativity'. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 16 (1):44-57. [Link] https://doi.org/10.1037/aca0000313
2022 Constance de Saint Laurent; Vlad Glaveanu; Ioana Literat (2022) 'Mimetic Representations of the COVID-19 Pandemic: An analysis of objectification, anchoring and identification processes in coronavirus memes'. Psychology of Popular Media, 11 (4):340-354. [Link] https://doi.org/10.1037/ppm0000370
2023 Hinrichs, N.; Stierand, M.; Glăveanu, V. (2023) 'Food for thought: How curiosity externalization is fostered through organizational identity'. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 179 . [Link] [DOI]
2023 Ross, W.; Glăveanu, V. (2023) 'The constraints of habit: craft, repetition, and creativity'. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, . [Link] [DOI]
2023 Tromp, C.; Glăveanu, V.P. (2023) 'A Model of Creative Aging (MOCA): Unlocking the Potential of Constraints for Creativity in Older Adults'. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, . [Link] [DOI]
2023 Anderson, Ross C. C.; Beghetto, Ronald A. A.; Glaveanu, Vlad; Basu, Marina (2023) 'Is Curiosity Killed by the CAT? A Divergent, Open-Ended, and Generative (DOG) Approach to Creativity Assessment'. Creativity Research Journal, 35 (3). [DOI]

Edited Book

Year Publication
2022 Vlad Glaveanu (Ed.). (2022) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of the Possible. London: Palgrave,
2023 (2023) Creativity: A New Vocabulary. Cham: Springer, [DOI]

Encyclopedia Entry

Year Publication
2022 Vlad Glaveanu (2022) Perspective. London: ENC [Link] https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98390-5_18-3
2022 Vlad Glaveanu (2022) Creativity. London: ENC [Link] https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98390-5_158-2
2022 Vlad Glaveanu (2022) Affordance. London: ENC [Link] https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98390-5_10-3
2022 Vlad Glaveanu (2022) Possible in Psychology. London: ENC [Link] https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98390-5_168-3
2022 Vlad Glaveanu (2022) Wonder. London: ENC [Link] https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98390-5_129-2
2022 Vlad Glaveanu (2022) Wish. London: ENC [Link] https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98390-5_179-2
2022 Vlad Glaveanu (2022) Post-truth. London: ENC [Link] https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98390-5_256-2
2022 Vlad Glaveanu (2022) Inspiration. London: ENC [Link] https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98390-5_42-4
2022 Vlad Glaveanu (2022) Mobility. London: ENC [Link] https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98390-5_165-2

Book

Year Publication
2024 Alex Gillespie; Vlad Glaveanu; Constance de Saint Laurent (2024) Pragmatism and methodology: Doing research that matters with mixed methods. New York: Cambridge University Press. [DOI]

Other Publication

Year Publication
2023 Vinchon, F.; Lubart, T.; Bartolotta, S.; Gironnay, V.; Botella, M.; Bourgeois-Bougrine, S.; Burkhardt, J.M.; Bonnardel, N.; Corazza, G.E.; Glăveanu, V.; Hanchett Hanson, M.; Ivcevic, Z.; Karwowski, M.; Kaufman, J.C.; Okada, T.; Reiter-Palmon, R.; Gaggioli, A. (2023) Artificial Intelligence & Creativity: A Manifesto for Collaboration. [Link] [DOI]
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Research Interests

Creativity, innovation, imagination, curiosity, wonder, awe, agency, serendipity, utopias and dystopias, anticipation, futures studies, counterfactuals, culture, collaboration, perspective-taking, technology, social media, creative learning, education, possibility studies

Teaching Interests

The psychology of creativity, social psychology, educational psychology, cultural psychology, introduction to psychology, psychology and technology, qualitative and mixed methods