With a generous grant from the Danish Innovation Fund, we launch a new research project on enhancing user experience of VR horror though affective…

A Halloween season update from the lab

New publication by Recreational Fear Lab members Jens Kjeldgaard-Christiansen and Mathias Clasen

Lab director Mathias Clasen talks about our research in a short video produced by Aarhus University for the Danish Science Festival 2021

The Recreational Fear Lab is delighted to host two research interns in the spring of 2021. In this post, lab intern Lauritz Holm Petersen tells us…

The Recreational Fear Lab is delighted to host two research interns in the spring of 2021. In this post, lab intern Emilie Schjoldager tells us about…

Lab member Jens Kjeldgaard-Christiansen digs into the psychology of self-directed fear at the movies in a new essay published on Horror Homeroom.

Meet lab member and media researcher Jens Kjeldgaard-Christiansen, whose interdisciplinary research encompasses recreational fear.

Research article on recreational fear published in Psychological Science

Meet lab member and psychologist Mihaela Taranu, who will be exploring recreational fear across the lifespan.