Marc Malmdorf Andersen
Cognitive scientist, associate professor at Aarhus University.
Predictive Processing, Emotion, Play, Recreational Fear, Cognitive Development.
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- Reposted by Marc Malmdorf AndersenReally great new paper using agent-based modelling to show how an exploratory childhood can lead to innovation in the population at large. royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...
- "Combat both US tech capitulation and Enshittification at once." Thanks for these overviews @hansonmark.bsky.social and @parismarx.com 🙏
- Two weeks ago I started: - 🇳🇴 Vivaldi > Chrome 🇺🇸 - 🇨🇭 ProtonMail > Gmail 🇺🇸 - 🇨🇭 ProtonDrive > Dropbox 🇺🇸 - 🇬🇧 Anytime Player > American Podcast apps 🇺🇸 - 🇫🇷 Deezer > Spotify (basically 🇺🇸) - 🇬🇧 CityMapper > Google Maps 🇺🇸 It was easy. Most have a "import all settings and pick up where you left off" function
- Reposted by Marc Malmdorf AndersenVery nice modeling work by a great team: @drelenamiu.bsky.social @ndersen.bsky.social @sheinalew.bsky.social @felixthehauskat.bsky.social 👇
- "The relationship between childhood exploration and population-level innovation in cultural evolution" with @ndersen.bsky.social @sheinalew.bsky.social @felixthehauskat.bsky.social out in Proc B royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...
- Reposted by Marc Malmdorf Andersen"The relationship between childhood exploration and population-level innovation in cultural evolution" with @ndersen.bsky.social @sheinalew.bsky.social @felixthehauskat.bsky.social out in Proc B royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...
- 🚨 🚨 Publication alert🚨 🚨 Great work led by the brilliant @drelenamiu.bsky.social. Using agent-based models, we show that age-structured learning (kids explore broadly; adults refine/exploit) boosts long-term cultural payoffs vs. using the same strategies in random order. shorturl.at/rdlhv
- Reposted by Marc Malmdorf AndersenNew study from @ndersen.bsky.social and colleagues combines two of my favorite things - haunted houses and physiological synchrony research. "Scared together: heart rate synchrony and social closeness in a high-intensity horror setting." 👻❤️⚡❤️🧟
- Aaand, we're off! The annual Recreational Fear workshop “When Fear Is Fun 2025” kicks off with Corinna Perchtold-Stefan. Corinna is enlightening us on why the true crime genre has such a massive gender difference, in favour of women consumers. Stay tuned! @aiasdk.bsky.social @au.dk
- Reposted by Marc Malmdorf AndersenWhen we see something that's moving, our memories about it end up projected forward in time: We remember it further along than it was. In a new paper in 𝘗𝘴𝘺𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘚𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦, out today and led by @dillonplunkett.bsky.social, we demonstrate that this happens even when there is 𝙣𝙤 𝙢𝙤𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩𝙨𝙤𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧.🧵
- Reposted by Marc Malmdorf AndersenHigh-level visual surprise is rapidly integrated during perceptual inference! 🚨 New paper 🚨 out now in @cp-iscience.bsky.social with @paulapena.bsky.social and @mruz.bsky.social www.cell.com/iscience/ful... Summary 🧵 below 👇
- Reposted by Marc Malmdorf Andersen🫀 New preprint alert! 🌆 Thrilled to share the first paper of my PhD on heart-rate synchrony during social interactions in urban environments. @sinelabdtu.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
- Reposted by Marc Malmdorf AndersenOnline Now: Shaping bodily self-awareness through thermosensory signals
- Reposted by Marc Malmdorf AndersenNew paper alert: Beyond the Adult Mind: A Developmental Framework for Predictive Processing in Infancy! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #PsychSciSky #DevPsyc #CogPsyc #neuroskyence
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- Come join the wonderful CogSci dep at Aarhus Uni, Denmark! Fantastic students, wonderful colleagues, and great work/life balance! We are looking for applicants with teaching experience in the field of computational modelling of cognitive and/or social processes. international.au.dk/about/profil...
- Reposted by Marc Malmdorf AndersenCome join the workshop on Recreational Fear at @aiasdk.bsky.social, @au.dk!
- 🎃👻 When Fear Is Fun 2025 🎃👻 Our 5th annual workshop on recreational fear is happening in Aarhus on Dec 12! Free participation, registration required. 🔗 Speakers + program: cc.au.dk/en/recreatio... 🔗 Register: event.au.dk/events/when-...
- Reposted by Marc Malmdorf Andersen** Recruiting a postdoc ** We are looking for a postdoc to work on emotion, mental health, and interoception, based in London at @ucl.ac.uk in my lab (Clinical and Affective Neuroscience). Part of a large Wellcome Grant (co-led with the brilliant @camillanord.bsky.social)
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- 🎃👻 When Fear Is Fun 2025 🎃👻 Our 5th annual workshop on recreational fear is happening in Aarhus on Dec 12! Free participation, registration required. 🔗 Speakers + program: cc.au.dk/en/recreatio... 🔗 Register: event.au.dk/events/when-...
- The Recreational Fear Workshop explores why humans sometimes enjoy fear—and what it does to our minds and bodies. This year, we have a fantastic lineup of speakers, covering everything from PTSD, psychopaths, true crime consumption and the Paradox of Horror. Come join us at @aiasdk.bsky.social !
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- Reposted by Marc Malmdorf AndersenHappy to share that our BBS target article has been accepted: “Core Perception”: Re-imagining Precocious Reasoning as Sophisticated Perceiving With Alon Hafri, @veroniqueizard.bsky.social, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & Brent Strickland Read it here: doi.org/10.1017/S014... A short thread [1/5]👇
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- Danish Media covers our recent study (article in danish): videnskab.dk/kultur-samfu...
- 🚨 Kids LOVE fear?!🚨 Our new study led by Mihaela Taranu from the Recreational Fear Lab uncovers something surprising: Children across all ages actively seek out scary experiences - for fun! 📄 doi.org/10.1007/s105... [1/🧵]
- Reposted by Marc Malmdorf AndersenDoes the culture you grow up in shape the way you see the world? In a new Psych Review paper, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I tackle this centuries-old question using the Müller-Lyer illusion as a case study. Come think through one of history's mysteries with us🧵(1/13):
- Reposted by Marc Malmdorf AndersenPsyArXiv is seeking new moderators to help combat an increase in AI submissions! If you've ever posted a preprint to PsyArXiv, please consider joining. Minimum commitment 1h/month, there's a training session this Monday @ 1pm ET. More info here: forms.gle/9LB1rEtxHAeZ... #PsychSciSky
- Reposted by Marc Malmdorf AndersenOn the left is a rabbit. On the right is an elephant. But guess what: They’re the *same image*, rotated 90°! In @currentbiology.bsky.social, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I show how these images—known as “visual anagrams”—can help solve a longstanding problem in cognitive science. bit.ly/45BVnCZ
- Reposted by Marc Malmdorf AndersenAI slop and the destruction of knowledge irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08/12/a...
- 🧟♂️🚨 Publication alert! 🚨🧟♀️ Holy moly, I'm thrilled to announce our new paper in Emotion! We explored how recreational fear, physiological synchrony, and social closeness interact in a high-intensity haunted house setting. 1/5 🧵 Link: psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...
- It’s curious that we seek out fear for fun - and even more curious that we almost always do it together. We watch horror films in groups, visit haunted houses with friends, and tell ghost stories around the campfire. But how social dynamics shape our experience of fear remains largely unknown. 2/5🧵
- Reposted by Marc Malmdorf AndersenHappy to share "The Dynamics of Caregiver Unpredictability Shape Moment-to-Moment Infant Looking During Dyadic Interaction," out now in Child Development thanks to a large team of people I worked on this with! srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirec...
- Reposted by Marc Malmdorf AndersenThis was such a fun conversation about childhood, play, and agency across cultures. Thanks for having @sheinalew.bsky.social & I on the show!
- New episode!! 🎙️📣 A chat w/ @sheinalew.bsky.social & @dorsaamir.bsky.social about childhood across cultures. Humans everywhere go through childhood—a time of learning, growth, and play. But this universal stage of life can look very different in different places. Listen: disi.org/varieties-of...
- 🚨 Kids LOVE fear?!🚨 Our new study led by Mihaela Taranu from the Recreational Fear Lab uncovers something surprising: Children across all ages actively seek out scary experiences - for fun! 📄 doi.org/10.1007/s105... [1/🧵]
- Reposted by Marc Malmdorf AndersenOur daily lives are packed w complex behaviours: reading a novel & piecing together the plot; negotiating decisions w family... How do we build mathematical models of the underlying cognitive mechanisms? Our new preprint osf.io/d2v54_v1 argues for a community approach A 🧵 1/
- Reposted by Marc Malmdorf AndersenNow is the time to go write 📝 your application for this exciting postdoc position in our project exploring how the shift from animal to human-based research models shapes science and society 🔬🌍 Deadline Monday Apr 27 www.au.dk/om/stillinge... @interacting-minds.bsky.social
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- Thrilled to share the publication of "Can playing Dungeons & Dragons be good for you?" led by the brilliant @joelbillieux.bsky.social and his fantastic team. I was lucky to play a small part in this epic quest. 🎲🐉🧟♀️🔥⚔️ Link: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #DnD #MentalHealth #TTRPG
