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Marc Malmdorf Andersen
@ndersen.bsky.social
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Cognitive scientist, associate professor at Aarhus University.
Predictive Processing, Emotion, Play, Recreational Fear, Cognitive Development.
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Marc Malmdorf Andersen @ndersen.bsky.social · Aug 8
🧟‍♂️🚨 Publication alert! 🚨🧟‍♀️

Holy moly, I'm thrilled to announce our new paper in Emotion! We explored how recreational fear, physiological synchrony, and social closeness interact in a high-intensity haunted house setting. 1/5 🧵

Link: psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...
Reposted by Marc Malmdorf Andersen
ndersen.bsky.social
🎃👻 When Fear Is Fun 2025 🎃👻
Our 5th annual workshop on recreational fear is happening in Aarhus on Dec 12!

Free participation, registration required.
🔗 Speakers + program: cc.au.dk/en/recreatio...
🔗 Register: event.au.dk/events/when-...
November 21, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Reposted by Marc Malmdorf Andersen
interacting-minds.bsky.social
Come join the workshop on Recreational Fear at @aiasdk.bsky.social, @au.dk!
ndersen.bsky.social Marc Malmdorf Andersen @ndersen.bsky.social · 13h
🎃👻 When Fear Is Fun 2025 🎃👻
Our 5th annual workshop on recreational fear is happening in Aarhus on Dec 12!

Free participation, registration required.
🔗 Speakers + program: cc.au.dk/en/recreatio...
🔗 Register: event.au.dk/events/when-...
November 21, 2025 at 8:27 AM
ndersen.bsky.social
🎃👻 When Fear Is Fun 2025 🎃👻
Our 5th annual workshop on recreational fear is happening in Aarhus on Dec 12!

Free participation, registration required.
🔗 Speakers + program: cc.au.dk/en/recreatio...
🔗 Register: event.au.dk/events/when-...
November 21, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Reposted by Marc Malmdorf Andersen
chadbourn.bsky.social
Everything is a distraction from this.
‘Change course now’: humanity has missed 1.5C climate target, says UN head
Exclusive: ‘Devastating consequences’ now inevitable but emissions cuts still vital, says António Guterres in sole interview before Cop30
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Reposted by Marc Malmdorf Andersen
daweibai.bsky.social
Happy to share that our BBS target article has been accepted: “Core Perception”: Re-imagining Precocious Reasoning as Sophisticated Perceiving
With Alon Hafri, @veroniqueizard.bsky.social, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & Brent Strickland
Read it here: doi.org/10.1017/S014...
A short thread [1/5]👇
October 9, 2025 at 3:51 PM
ndersen.bsky.social
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Hospital says toy MRI scanner helps save £150k
Children can play with the Kitten Scanner to prepare them for a real scan.
www.bbc.com
October 8, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Reposted by Marc Malmdorf Andersen
philcorlett.bsky.social
somehow I missed this!

Dopamine represents a domain-general teaching signal:

www.science.org/doi/full/10....
Striatal dopamine signals errors in prediction across different informational domains
Dopamine reflects prediction errors not only about reward but also about valueless stimuli, challenging many current theories.
www.science.org
September 16, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Reposted by Marc Malmdorf Andersen
mellimo.bsky.social
Academia.edu is changing its Terms and Conditions, and they're so outrageous (AI training; signing over ownership to them etc) I closed my account today.

A thread with some practical tips if you want to delete your account (5 steps):
September 20, 2025 at 1:44 PM
ndersen.bsky.social
Danish Media covers our recent study (article in danish):
videnskab.dk/kultur-samfu...
September 9, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Reposted by Marc Malmdorf Andersen
dorsaamir.bsky.social
Does the culture you grow up in shape the way you see the world? In a new Psych Review paper, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I tackle this centuries-old question using the Müller-Lyer illusion as a case study. Come think through one of history's mysteries with us🧵(1/13):
January 25, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Reposted by Marc Malmdorf Andersen
improvingpsych.org
PsyArXiv is seeking new moderators to help combat an increase in AI submissions! If you've ever posted a preprint to PsyArXiv, please consider joining. Minimum commitment 1h/month, there's a training session this Monday @ 1pm ET. More info here: forms.gle/9LB1rEtxHAeZ... #PsychSciSky
Expression of Interest in Serving as a PsyArXiv Moderator
As you might have heard, PsyArXiv is having some issues with an increase in low-quality submissions, ranging from AI generated manuscripts to inflate citation metrics, incoherent or nonsensical docume...
forms.gle
August 15, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Reposted by Marc Malmdorf Andersen
talboger.bsky.social
On the left is a rabbit. On the right is an elephant. But guess what: They’re the *same image*, rotated 90°!

In @currentbiology.bsky.social, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I show how these images—known as “visual anagrams”—can help solve a longstanding problem in cognitive science. bit.ly/45BVnCZ
August 19, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Reposted by Marc Malmdorf Andersen
irisvanrooij.bsky.social
AI slop and the destruction of knowledge irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08/12/a...
AI slop and the destruction of knowledge
This week I was looking for info on what cognitive scientists mean when they speak of ‘domain-general’ cognition. I was curious, because the nuances are relevant for something I am researching at t…
irisvanrooijcogsci.com
August 12, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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ndersen.bsky.social
🧟‍♂️🚨 Publication alert! 🚨🧟‍♀️

Holy moly, I'm thrilled to announce our new paper in Emotion! We explored how recreational fear, physiological synchrony, and social closeness interact in a high-intensity haunted house setting. 1/5 🧵

Link: psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...
August 8, 2025 at 9:25 AM
ndersen.bsky.social
🧟‍♂️🚨 Publication alert! 🚨🧟‍♀️

Holy moly, I'm thrilled to announce our new paper in Emotion! We explored how recreational fear, physiological synchrony, and social closeness interact in a high-intensity haunted house setting. 1/5 🧵

Link: psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...
August 8, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Reposted by Marc Malmdorf Andersen
tessforest.bsky.social
Happy to share "The Dynamics of Caregiver Unpredictability Shape Moment-to-Moment Infant Looking During Dyadic Interaction," out now in Child Development thanks to a large team of people I worked on this with! srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirec...
<em>Child Development</em> | SRCD Journal | Wiley Online Library
Cognitive development is associated with how predictable caregivers are, but the mechanisms driving this are unclear. One possibility is caregiver predictability initially shapes how infants gather i...
srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
August 6, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Reposted by Marc Malmdorf Andersen
dorsaamir.bsky.social
This was such a fun conversation about childhood, play, and agency across cultures. Thanks for having @sheinalew.bsky.social & I on the show!
manymindspod.bsky.social Many Minds podcast @manymindspod.bsky.social · Jul 17
New episode!! 🎙️📣

A chat w/ @sheinalew.bsky.social & @dorsaamir.bsky.social about childhood across cultures.

Humans everywhere go through childhood—a time of learning, growth, and play. But this universal stage of life can look very different in different places.

Listen: disi.org/varieties-of...
July 19, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Reposted by Marc Malmdorf Andersen
ndersen.bsky.social
🚨 Kids LOVE fear?!🚨
Our new study led by Mihaela Taranu from the Recreational Fear Lab uncovers something surprising:
Children across all ages actively seek out scary experiences - for fun!
📄 doi.org/10.1007/s105...
[1/🧵]
Recreational Fear Across Childhood. A Cross-Sectional Study of Scary Activities that Children Enjoy - Child Psychiatry & Human Development
This study investigated the prevalence of children’s engagement in recreational fear activities — i.e., playful engagement with scary stimuli where both fear and enjoyment are experienced. A detailed ...
doi.org
June 16, 2025 at 11:51 AM
ndersen.bsky.social
🚨 Kids LOVE fear?!🚨
Our new study led by Mihaela Taranu from the Recreational Fear Lab uncovers something surprising:
Children across all ages actively seek out scary experiences - for fun!
📄 doi.org/10.1007/s105...
[1/🧵]
Recreational Fear Across Childhood. A Cross-Sectional Study of Scary Activities that Children Enjoy - Child Psychiatry & Human Development
This study investigated the prevalence of children’s engagement in recreational fear activities — i.e., playful engagement with scary stimuli where both fear and enjoyment are experienced. A detailed ...
doi.org
June 16, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Reposted by Marc Malmdorf Andersen
fusaroli.bsky.social
Our daily lives are packed w complex behaviours: reading a novel & piecing together the plot; negotiating decisions w family... How do we build mathematical models of the underlying cognitive mechanisms? Our new preprint osf.io/d2v54_v1 argues for a community approach A 🧵 1/
May 9, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Reposted by Marc Malmdorf Andersen
mettehoybye.bsky.social
Now is the time to go write 📝 your application for this exciting postdoc position in our project exploring how the shift from animal to human-based research models shapes science and society 🔬🌍
Deadline Monday Apr 27

www.au.dk/om/stillinge...
@interacting-minds.bsky.social
Postdoc in medical anthropology/STS - Ledig stilling på Aarhus Universitet
Ledig stilling ved Institut for Klinisk Medicin - Interacting Minds Centre (IMC), Aarhus Universitet
www.au.dk
April 24, 2025 at 7:59 PM
ndersen.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Exclusive: a Nature analysis signals the beginnings of a US science brain drain
A trawl of job views and application data suggests jobseekers are looking abroad as the Trump administration’s cuts to science take hold.
www.nature.com
April 22, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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joelbillieux.bsky.social
Our registered exploratory pilot programme using offline tabletop role-playing games hashtag #TTRPG to mitigate social anxiety and reduce problematic involvement in online video games has just been published at Royal Society Open Science @royalsociety.org

royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
April 12, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Reposted by Marc Malmdorf Andersen
ndersen.bsky.social
Thrilled to share the publication of "Can playing Dungeons & Dragons be good for you?" led by the brilliant @joelbillieux.bsky.social and his fantastic team. I was lucky to play a small part in this epic quest. 🎲🐉🧟‍♀️🔥⚔️

Link: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

#DnD #MentalHealth #TTRPG
Can playing Dungeons and Dragons be good for you? A registered exploratory pilot programme using offline tabletop role-playing games to mitigate social anxiety and reduce problematic involvement in mu...
Gamers with poor self-concept, high social anxiety and high loneliness are more at risk of problematic involvement in video games, such as massively multiplayer online role-playing games. There is a r...
doi.org
April 11, 2025 at 10:15 AM
ndersen.bsky.social
Thrilled to share the publication of "Can playing Dungeons & Dragons be good for you?" led by the brilliant @joelbillieux.bsky.social and his fantastic team. I was lucky to play a small part in this epic quest. 🎲🐉🧟‍♀️🔥⚔️

Link: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

#DnD #MentalHealth #TTRPG
Can playing Dungeons and Dragons be good for you? A registered exploratory pilot programme using offline tabletop role-playing games to mitigate social anxiety and reduce problematic involvement in mu...
Gamers with poor self-concept, high social anxiety and high loneliness are more at risk of problematic involvement in video games, such as massively multiplayer online role-playing games. There is a r...
doi.org
April 11, 2025 at 10:15 AM