Interacting Minds
Interacting Minds is an interdisciplinary research podcast hosted by Kirsi Tilk, Arnault-Quentin Vermillet and Savhannah Schulz. In each episode, they are joined by fellow interdisciplinary researchers to explore and discuss the work they have been doing and share a glimpse of the journey that brought them there.
Sound engineer : Kirsi Tilk
Music : Simon Karg
Interacting Minds
Surprise, Fear, Cognition, and Play (Marc Malmdorf Andersen)
Play Researcher Marc Malmdorf Andersen (Interacting Minds Centre & Recreational Fear Lab) has stopped by to talk about his cognitive theory of play, recreational fear, dark play, and why sweet spots of surprise could be at the core of making sense of why humans of all ages play.
We also get to talk about some of Marc’s past and future research endeavours: Studying senses of agency in Ouija Board sessions, asking participants to detect beings in a virtual reality forest, and using a range of empirical methods to study people voluntarily seeking out frightening experiences in a haunted house.
To learn more about Marc Malmdorf Andersen’s work and the topics and resources mentioned, visit the show notes for this episode at https://interactingminds.au.dk/podcast
