Jens K.-Christiansen
@jenskc
Researcher at Aarhus University. Interested in heroes, villains, horror, and lots of other stuff.
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https://pure.au.dk/portal/en/[email protected] 01-04-2011 00:01:35
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Have you checked out the Recreational Fear Lab blog? It's abuzz with excellent content, most recently a brilliant post by lab friend & collaborator Professor Helen Dodd on the importance of scary play in children: cc.au.dk/en/recreationa…
New article with Marc Hye-Knudsen and Mathias Clasen. We examine the (MANY) intersections between humor and fear. Open access--but start by reading Marc's Twitter summary!
“Anything that has the potential to make people fearful should also be capable of evoking humor under the right circumstances.” Research by Marc Hye-Knudsen et al suggests humour and fear are closely connected at the cognitive level: buff.ly/3VhuHlX
How did Frankenstein's monster morph from creepy hulk to benign joke? Why giggle after a jump scare? Some smart folks explain in an #openaccess study in Evolutionary Psychology. Marc Hye-Knudsen / Jens K.-Christiansen / Brian Boutwell / Mathias Clasen doi.org/10.1177/147470…
From Tetris to Zelda, to Elden Ring and League of Legends, our new preprint with Valérian Chambon delves into the diversity of video games and gamers' preferences 🎮. We present a cognitive framework for understanding this diversity. Paper and more at the end of this thread ⬇️
For the Recreational Fear Lab blog, I have written a short post summarising the main points of our new paper on the cognitive intersections of humor and fear. Check it out 👇
We're thrilled to be announcing the Fourth Annual Aarhus Workshop on Recreational Fear, in collaboration with the Youth & Horror Research Network research network 🥳😱 Event page + program: cc.au.dk/en/recreationa… Organizers: Dr. 🐈, Kate Egan - now at kte75.bsky.social, @Marc_M_Andersen & Mathias Clasen
In this #JMPSpecialIssue article, Stacie Friend (The University of Edinburgh), Angela Nyhout, Murray Smith and @hethstar81 (University of Kent) propose a framework for interdisciplinary research focusing on how media can influence moral understanding. Read it at econtent.hogrefe.com/doi/epdf/10.10…
Why do horror movie jump scares usually combine sight and sound? New research suggests that a multimodal threat - one consisting of a looming auditory AND a looming visual cue - triggers a stronger defensive response - longer hiding time (in mice, anyway). sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
The IFLScience magazine CURIOUS did a deep-dive on the question "Can Fear Be Fun?" Our response, when Rachael H Funnell posed the question to us, was a hardly surprising but still resounding YES: curious.iflscience.com/issue-27/full-…
Why do people enjoy scaring others for fun? Why do people often laugh after jump scares? Why do children find peek-a-boo so funny? In honour of Halloween, The Guardian has covered our recent paper on the cognitive intersections of humor and fear: theguardian.com/science/2024/o…
As of today, I am an assistant professor (tenure-track) at the Department of English, Aarhus Universitet! Very thankful to be able to to stick around :-)