Marc Malmdorf Andersen
Marc Malmdorf Andersen is a researcher and first author of the 2020 field study of recreational fear at a haunted attraction.
Who they are
Andersen led the 2020 field study, written with Uffe Schjoedt, Henry Price, Fernando Rosas, Coltan Scrivner and Mathias Clasen. It followed 110 visitors to a haunted attraction, aged 12 to 57, with heart rate monitoring, video of the scare points and repeated self-reports.
Enjoyment followed an inverted U against fear. Feeling frightened tracked large changes in heart rate in a straight line, and enjoyment followed an inverted U with smaller fluctuations. He is also a co-author of the 2019 study of how visitors manage their own fear.
Key papers
Andersen, M. M., Schjoedt, U., Price, H. C. W., Rosas, F. E., Scrivner, C. and Clasen, M. (2020), Psychological Science 31(12), 1497-1510.
Clasen, M., Andersen, M. M. and Schjoedt, U. (2019), Poetics 73, 61-71.
Key ideas
Enjoyment of fear rises to a moderate peak and then falls.
Visitors shape their own dose of fear.
Sources
- Andersen, M. M., Schjoedt, U., Price, H. C. W., Rosas, F. E., Scrivner, C. and Clasen, M. (2020), Psychological Science 31(12), 1497-1510.
- Clasen, M., Andersen, M. M. and Schjoedt, U. (2019), Poetics 73, 61-71.