Project relations

• Affective Player Experience of Fear (APEX of Fear): Enhancing User Experience of Horror through Affective Computing

  Project: Research

Activities

• Playing with Fear: Empirical Investigations in a Haunted House

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution

• Frygteligt fjernsyn for dig: Om børn, rekreativ frygt og skræmmende medier

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution

• Det værst tænkelige: Om dystopisk horror og gysets positive effekter

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution

• The New Science of Recreational Fear

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution

• Why Horror Seduces

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution

• The New Science of Recreational Fear

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution

• Leg med frygt: Den rekreative rædsels psykologiske og pædagogiske anvendelighed

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution

• Hvorfor tiltrækkes vi af gyset?

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution

• Gys – den uhyggelige underholdnings psykologi

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution

• When Fear Is Fun (and Healthy)

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution

• Horror: Om forskning i rekreativ frygt

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution

• Uppsala University

  Activity: Visiting an external institution types › Visiting an external academic institution

• The New Science of Recreational Fear

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution

• Halloween: Gys for voksne

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution

• The Pleasures of Fear

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution

• Horror, Victorian Gothic & Dystopia

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution

• Horror, Recreational Fear, and Haunted House Research

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution

• De døde kroppes hemmeligheder

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution

• Børns leg med frygt: Om børn, rekreativ frygt og skræmmende medier

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution

• When Fear Is Fun 2021

  Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in or organisation of workshop, seminar or course

• Gevinst på begge sider af et skrækkeligt samarbejde

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution

• Ulven: Mystisk, vild og stærk

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution

• Hårrejsende forskning i gys og gru

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution

• The Science of Recreational Fear

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution

• Research workshop on recreational fear and risky play

  Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in or organisation of workshop, seminar or course

• Playing with Fear: Investigations into the Peculiar Phenomenon of Recreational Horror

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution

• Dyk ned i gysets verden

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution

• Horror

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution

• Horror: Om psykologien bag skrækfiktion

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution

• Det gode gys

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution

• Frygt for sjov: Om psykologien bag gys og gru

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution

• Hvorfor elsker vi gyset?

  Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in or organisation of workshop, seminar or course

• Playing with Fear: Empirical Research on Recreational Horror

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution

• Hooray for Horror: The New Science of Recreational Fear

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution

• The Psychology of Recreational Fear

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution

• Gys og gru i hjernen

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution

• Når frygten tager over: Hvorfor er vi bange for edderkopper?

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution

• Guest lecture: Freaking Out in the Counterculture of the 1960s

  Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in or organisation of workshop, seminar or course

• Horror og forskning i rekreativ frygt

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution

• Horror, evolution og rekreativ frygt

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution

• An Introduction to the Science of Recreational Fear

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution

• Haunted House Research: Results from Six Years of Field Studies

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution

• Om horror og forskning i rekreativ frygt

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution

• Den rekreative frygt - hvorfor elsker vi gys og horror?

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution

• Horror: Seneste forskning i gys og gru

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution

• The Second Annual Aarhus Workshop on Recreational Fear

  Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in or organisation of workshop, seminar or course

• Besat af Stephen King

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution

• Rekreativ frygt i forskning, undervisning og almendannelse

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution

• Besat af Stephen King Part II: Sommetider vender de tilbage

  Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in or organisation of workshop, seminar or course

• Horror

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution

• Videnskaben bag skræk og rædsel

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution

• Recreational Fear Research: A Brief Introduction

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution

• Frygt for sjov: Seneste nyt fra horrorforskningen

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution

• Test din egen frygt!

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution

• Why Are We Fascinated with Serial Killers? An Evolutionary Perspective on a Peculiar Cultural Phenomenon

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution

• Rekreativ frygt: Introduktion til et nyt forsknings

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution

• Tid til at se din frygt i øjnene

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution

• Horror og rekreativ frygt

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution

• Rædsler fra dybet: Om havuhyrer, Dødens gab og den rekreative frygt

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution

• Leg med frygten

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution

• English Lecture Society: A Night of Horror

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution

• Why Horror May Be Good For Us (And Possibly Adaptive)

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution

• The Third Annual Aarhus Workshop on Recreational Fear

  Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in or organisation of workshop, seminar or course

• When Fear Is Fun 2023: Welcome

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution

• When Fear Is Fun 2023: Welcome

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution

• Monsterzonen

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution

• Hvorfor bliver vi bange?

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution

• Monstre og skrækfortællinger

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution

Press/Media

• Mathias Clasen: A Very Nervous Person's Guide to Horror Movies

  Press/Media: Press / Media

• Recreational Fear: Here We Are Podcast Ep. 357

  Press/Media: Press / Media

• Kan du overleve en gyserfilm kan du overleve alting

  Press/Media: Press / Media

• Gyserfans klarede sig bedre gennem corona-pandemien

  Press/Media: Press / Media

• Missionen på Radio4: Vi genopstår

  Press/Media: Press / Media

• Why Horror Is So Damned Fun

  Press/Media: Press / Media

• Hvorfor tiltrækkes vi af horror, vold og død?

  Press/Media: Press / Media

• The 10 Most-Terrifying Books, Movies and More to Scare Yourself for Fun this Halloween

  Press/Media: Press / Media

• New haunted house study suggests there’s a sweet spot for recreational fear

  Press/Media: Press / Media

• Horror Games Help Turn Our Fear Into Freedom, And This Is How

  Press/Media: Press / Media

• Forskere er enige: Børn har godt af at blive bange til halloween

  Press/Media: Press / Media

• Scary Movies: Can They Actually Be Good for Anxiety?

  Press/Media: Press / Media

• Horrorforskningens maskinrum

  Press/Media: Press / Media

• Horrorfilm kan forbedre dit mentale helbred

  Press/Media: Press / Media

• Ekspert: Gyserfilm hjælper os i skræmmende tider

  Press/Media: Press / Media

• Alle advarede mig mod at se Tafdrups nye gyserfilm: Det forstår jeg nu

  Press/Media: Press / Media

• Stranger Things: Genialt miks af nostalgi, gys og 80’er-referencer går lige i maven på seeren

  Press/Media: Press / Media

• Sommermissionen - spøgelser

  Press/Media: Press / Media

• The Surprising Benefits of Scaring Yourself Silly

  Press/Media: Press / Media

• Als je een horrorfilm als kind liever niet had gezien

  Press/Media: Press / Media

• Porten til Riget: Trækfuglene

  Press/Media: Press / Media

• Being scared: 50 years since the film The Exorcist was released

  Press/Media: Press / Media

• Horror Study Hall: Recreational Fear Lab with Mathias Clasen

  Press/Media: Press / Media

• Horror

  Press/Media: Press / Media

• Stress af med gys og horror

  Press/Media: Press / Media

• Blood, gore and a healthy dose of catharsis: why horror can be good for us

  Press/Media: Press / Media

• Why do we keep falling for jump scares?

  Press/Media: Press / Media

• BBC Reel: What lies beneath our attraction to fear?

  Press/Media: Press / Media

• Cassettes Podcast: 23: Mathias Clasen

  Press/Media: Press / Media

• film:syn - den om gyserfilm

  Press/Media: Press / Media

• Researching Why We Love or Hate Horror

  Press/Media: Press / Media

• Was gruselige Videos in unserem Gehirn auslösen? | Quarks: Dimension Ralph

  Press/Media: Press / Media

• A Very Nervous Person's Guide to Horror Movies

  Press/Media: Press / Media

• Formiddag på 4'eren: Gys

  Press/Media: Press / Media

• Why horror movies can be good for us

  Press/Media: Press / Media

• Disse filmfans har klaret nedlukningen bedre

  Press/Media: Press / Media

• Monstre: vampyren

  Press/Media: Press / Media

• Monstre: varulven

  Press/Media: Press / Media

• Mathias Clasen forsker i noget af det mærkeligste, vi mennesker foretager os

  Press/Media: Press / Media

• H. P. Lovecast Podcast Transmissions

  Press/Media: Press / Media

• The Evolutionary Psychology of Horror, Apocalyptic Stories, and Villains

  Press/Media: Press / Media

• Det store gys

  Press/Media: Press / Media

• Why Horror Games Are Good For You

  Press/Media: Press / Media

• Dirt: On Spookiness

  Press/Media: Press / Media

• New study on the psychology of horror fans finds they have more mental resilience than average

  Press/Media: Press / Media

• Thrillingly Therapeutic: Exposure Therapy and the Benefits of Being Scared

  Press/Media: Press / Media

• At a Haunted House, Friends Heighten the Terror

  Press/Media: Press / Media

• Danger, Death, and Disgust: Why You Just Can't Look Away

  Press/Media: Press / Media

• How Horror Stories Help Us Cope With Real Life

  Press/Media: Press / Media

• Halloween box office slashing their way to the top

  Press/Media: Press / Media

• Killer Mediums: The Science of Horror Fans with Mathias Clasen

  Press/Media: Press / Media

• Vaccine mod angst?

  Press/Media: Press / Media

• Friends Can Make Things Very Scary

  Press/Media: Press / Media

• På tur i spøgelseshuset: »Hvis du har en rigtig dårlig oplevelse, skal du gå derind fem gange mere«

  Press/Media: Press / Media

• Getting Scared for Science with Spooky Phenomena

  Press/Media: Press / Media

• Nyt forskningsprojekt vil skabe fremtidens horroroplevelse

  Press/Media: Press / Media

• Monstre: spøgelset

  Press/Media: Press / Media

• Monstre: mennesket

  Press/Media: Press / Media

• Gyserekspert rangerer: Så uhyggelig er ’Speak No Evil’ i forhold til andre klamme film

  Press/Media: Press / Media

• The surprising benefits of 'scary play'

  Press/Media: Press / Media

• Hvorfor nyder folk at blive skræmt fra vid og sans?

  Press/Media: Press / Media

• Aarhus-lektor forsker i frygt: Derfor skal du udsætte dig selv for ting, der skræmmer dig

  Press/Media: Press / Media

• Why we enjoy fear: the science of a good scare

  Press/Media: Press / Media

• Why we like scary things: The science of recreational fear

  Press/Media: Press / Media

• Par fandt kærligheden mellem zombier og gys

  Press/Media: Press / Media

• Har du hang til horror? Så er du bedre til at håndtere kriser, mener en ekspert

  Press/Media: Press / Media

• Why escapism benefits from a dose of pandemic reality

  Press/Media: Press / Media

• StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson: BOO! The Science of Scary with Mathias Clasen & Heather Berlin

  Press/Media: Press / Media

• 4 Classroom Lessons From Haunted Houses

  Press/Media: Press / Media

• Danske forskere jagter den perfekte gyseroplevelse med kunstig intelligens: »Teknologien kan finde anvendelse i mange områder inden for kulturlivet«

  Press/Media: Press / Media

• Monstre: zombien

  Press/Media: Press / Media

• Monstre: dæmonen

  Press/Media: Press / Media

• Haunted house study sheds light on how human body responds to threats

  Press/Media: Press / Media

• Brinkmanns briks: Vær forberedt på det værste!

  Press/Media: Press / Media

• Ultra Nyt: Hvorfor elsker vi at blive skræmt?

  Press/Media: Press / Media

• Dead By Daylight Has Gotten Shockingly Scary

  Press/Media: Press / Media

• Troldspejlet special: Troldspejlet nyder rædslerne

  Press/Media: Press / Media

• Gyset skaber et frirum, hvor det er okay at være bange

  Press/Media: Press / Media

• « The Last of Us » : pourquoi les récits post-apocalyptiques nous plaisent-ils autant ?

  Press/Media: Press / Media

• Derfor kan gyserfilm være sundt for sindet: 3 overraskende fordele

  Press/Media: Press / Media

• New books in film: Why Horror Seduces

  Press/Media: Press / Media

• Doom busters: why some things aren’t (quite) as bad as we think

  Press/Media: Press / Media

• Store filmgenrer: Horror

  Press/Media: Press / Media

• Die Lust am Gruseln: Warum Angst haben auch Spaß machen kann

  Press/Media: Press / Media

• Por qué disfrutamos del terror: así funciona el miedo recreativo, la ciencia de un buen susto

  Press/Media: Press / Media

• Why do we like to watch scary movies?

  Press/Media: Press / Media

• Influencers de terror: tem coragem de segui-los?

  Press/Media: Press / Media

• Gysergenren oplever en ny guldalder, men bliver stadig holdt ude af det fine selskab

  Press/Media: Press / Media

• Go' Morgen Danmark: Dødsgåder hitter i biffen

  Press/Media: Press / Media

Research outputs

• Adrenaline junkies and white-knucklers: A quantitative study of fear management in haunted house visitors

  Research output: Contribution to journal/Conference contribution in journal/Contribution to newspaper › Journal article › Research › peer-review

• Horror, Personality, and Threat Simulation: A Survey on the Psychology of Scary Media

  Research output: Contribution to journal/Conference contribution in journal/Contribution to newspaper › Journal article › Research › peer-review

• Pandemic practice: Horror fans and morbidly curious individuals are more psychologically resilient during the COVID-19 pandemic

  Research output: Contribution to journal/Conference contribution in journal/Contribution to newspaper › Journal article › Research › peer-review

• Playing With Fear: A Field Study in Recreational Horror

  Research output: Contribution to journal/Conference contribution in journal/Contribution to newspaper › Journal article › Research › peer-review

• A Very Nervous Person's Guide to Horror Movies

  Research output: Book/anthology/dissertation/report › Book › Research › peer-review

• On the Psychology of Self-Directed Fear at the Movies; or, Can You Fear Your Own Fear?

  Research output: Other contribution › Net publication - Internet publication › Research

• On the Psychology of Horror Movies

  Research output: Other contribution › Net publication - Internet publication › Communication

• Fear Not!

  Research output: Other contribution › Net publication - Internet publication › Communication

• The New Science of Recreational Fear

  Research output: Contribution to journal/Conference contribution in journal/Contribution to newspaper › Journal article › Communication

• Why frightening imaginary worlds? Morbid curiosity and the learning potential of horror

  Research output: Contribution to journal/Conference contribution in journal/Contribution to newspaper › Comment/debate/letter to the editor › Research

• Gys, gru og modige børn

  Research output: Book/anthology/dissertation/report › Anthology › Research › peer-review

• Recreational Fear Lab (promotional video)

  Research output: Non-textual form › Pictures, Video and sound recordings (digital) › Communication

• Frygt for sjov: Om rekreativ frygt og det sunde gys

  Research output: Contribution to journal/Conference contribution in journal/Contribution to newspaper › Journal article › Communication

• How Horror Helps Your Brain: From Peek-a-Boo to Haunted Houses, 'Recreational Fear' Prepares Us for the Real Thing

  Research output: Other contribution › Net publication - Internet publication › Communication

• Psychological benefits of scary play in three types of horror fans

  Research output: Non-textual form › Dataset › Research › peer-review

• Blumhouse Productions: The New House of Horror

  Research output: Book/anthology/dissertation/report › Anthology › Research › peer-review

• Titte-bøh! Frygt og leg i danske daginstitutioner

  Research output: Contribution to journal/Conference contribution in journal/Contribution to newspaper › Journal article › Research › peer-review

• Insidious Patterns: An Integrative Analysis of Blumhouse's Most Important Franchise

  Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

• Det gode gys: Derfor kan horrorfilm være gode for dit mentale helbred

  Research output: Other contribution › Net publication - Internet publication › Communication

• The Psychological Benefits of Scary Play in Three Types of Horror Fans

  Research output: Contribution to journal/Conference contribution in journal/Contribution to newspaper › Journal article › Research › peer-review

• Why Some People Don't Like Horror Movies

  Research output: Other contribution › Net publication - Internet publication › Communication

• Uhygge, frygt og modige børn

  Research output: Contribution to journal/Conference contribution in journal/Contribution to newspaper › Editorial

• Introduction

  Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

• Creepiness and the Uncanny

  Research output: Contribution to journal/Conference contribution in journal/Contribution to newspaper › Journal article › Research › peer-review

• Rædsler fra dybet: Om havuhyrer, Dødens gab og den rekreative frygt

  Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

• Evil Voices in Popular Fictions: The Case of The Exorcist

  Research output: Contribution to journal/Conference contribution in journal/Contribution to newspaper › Journal article › Research › peer-review