Halloween season is laundry season at the lab. Next season maybe we oughta invest in black lab coats, if such a thing even exists ...

We love Skepchick's ([email protected] why not) tradition of celebrating Halloween "by seeing what those freaks over at the Recreational Fear Lab have been up to!" 🫶 skepchick.org/2024/10/study-…

So grateful to the brilliant team Recreational Fear Lab for hosting me last week. Not many academic visits include an evening at a ‘haunted house’ and waking up with fake blood in my hair 😂 I left feeling excited about continued collaboration and my next visit!

Last weekend of data collection at Dystopia Haunted House in Vejle, Denmark 🎃

Hey look, our wonderful collaborator Madison S. LaSaga is in the news, talking about horror movies, intrusive memories, and our current joint project - and reveals that she's a white-knuckler (like most everybody else here at the lab, it seems 😂) 🎃💪

New paper out from @Marc_M_Andersen and team Recreational Fear Lab - check out the thread and open access paper below! Wonderful to see another project supported by IMC seed funding grow into a novel, interesting paper 🌱

Can you scare away inflammation? Is recreational fear good for the immune system? So, so psyched to share our latest Recreational Fear Lab study:

Our latest study, conducted in collaboration with researchers from Aarhus Uni.hospital and funded by Interacting Minds, explores how recreational fear - such as being chased by a chainsaw-wielding pig-man in a haunted house - impacts the immune system:

Can going to a haunted house boost the immune system? arstechnica.com/science/2024/1…

Nice write-up of our most recent publication in Medical Xpress - "The health benefits of fright: A haunted house study" 😱🤩 medicalxpress.com/news/2024-11-h…

Our latest study 👇

A high point from last year's recreational fear workshop 👇

Thanks to all who have taken part already! We now have a large number of scifi & thriller fans 🛸🧟, but true crime, horror, drama, and fantasy fans are lagging (among others) 👮👹🧝 - where these fans at? Take part to tell us why your genre is your favourite (5-10 mins)!

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