Interacting Minds Centre
@interacting-minds.bsky.social
The Interacting Minds Centre (IMC) is an interdisciplinary research platform to study human interaction, based at Aarhus University.
Director: Prof Christine Parsons @christineparsons.bsky.social
See interactingminds.au.dk for more news, videos & podcasts
Director: Prof Christine Parsons @christineparsons.bsky.social
See interactingminds.au.dk for more news, videos & podcasts
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Hello all,
We are thrilled to be here - and looking forward to seeing what you all are up to!
- feel free to follow us for news on activities, opportunities, funding, talks, papers and podcasts. See you around 🌱 ❤️
We are thrilled to be here - and looking forward to seeing what you all are up to!
- feel free to follow us for news on activities, opportunities, funding, talks, papers and podcasts. See you around 🌱 ❤️
Come 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-...
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-...
November 21, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Come join the workshop on Recreational Fear at @aiasdk.bsky.social, @au.dk!
We're lucky to have great speakers come by the IMC from near and far. This week, it was Janis Zickfield @aarhusbss.bsky.social telling as all about a network theory of emotion (while making sure we felt some awe and fear!).
All our talks our open - please feel free to join us next time! @arts.au.dk
All our talks our open - please feel free to join us next time! @arts.au.dk
October 29, 2025 at 2:00 PM
We're lucky to have great speakers come by the IMC from near and far. This week, it was Janis Zickfield @aarhusbss.bsky.social telling as all about a network theory of emotion (while making sure we felt some awe and fear!).
All our talks our open - please feel free to join us next time! @arts.au.dk
All our talks our open - please feel free to join us next time! @arts.au.dk
1. Interested in emotions, emotion theory or emotion measurement? We have a talk for you 28th October, 11am:
It’s all connected! Conceptualizing emotions as networks of causal relations among components, by Janis Zickfeld, Assistant Professor @aarhusbss.bsky.social
It’s all connected! Conceptualizing emotions as networks of causal relations among components, by Janis Zickfeld, Assistant Professor @aarhusbss.bsky.social
October 27, 2025 at 8:57 AM
1. Interested in emotions, emotion theory or emotion measurement? We have a talk for you 28th October, 11am:
It’s all connected! Conceptualizing emotions as networks of causal relations among components, by Janis Zickfeld, Assistant Professor @aarhusbss.bsky.social
It’s all connected! Conceptualizing emotions as networks of causal relations among components, by Janis Zickfeld, Assistant Professor @aarhusbss.bsky.social
1/2 Are you a postdoc/assistat prof. @au.dk interested in interdisciplinarity? We have an extra special workshop for you! 11th Nov, featuring 4 speakers
- Where do new ideas come from?
Dr. Bridget Vincent, ANU
- Is interdisciplinarity worth it?
@jcskewes.bsky.social
- Where do new ideas come from?
Dr. Bridget Vincent, ANU
- Is interdisciplinarity worth it?
@jcskewes.bsky.social
October 20, 2025 at 11:06 AM
1/2 Are you a postdoc/assistat prof. @au.dk interested in interdisciplinarity? We have an extra special workshop for you! 11th Nov, featuring 4 speakers
- Where do new ideas come from?
Dr. Bridget Vincent, ANU
- Is interdisciplinarity worth it?
@jcskewes.bsky.social
- Where do new ideas come from?
Dr. Bridget Vincent, ANU
- Is interdisciplinarity worth it?
@jcskewes.bsky.social
For all at @au.dk, our Writing Cafe is back from this Friday (5th Sept)! We offer a space for distraction-free writing and welcome new faces warmly.
The magic of peer pressure, coffee & snacks = focused time.
End the week on a good note: 1483, Room 312. interactingminds.au.dk/events/singl...
The magic of peer pressure, coffee & snacks = focused time.
End the week on a good note: 1483, Room 312. interactingminds.au.dk/events/singl...
IMC Friday Writing Café
An open, self-organized space for doing concentrated writing
interactingminds.au.dk
September 3, 2025 at 12:10 PM
For all at @au.dk, our Writing Cafe is back from this Friday (5th Sept)! We offer a space for distraction-free writing and welcome new faces warmly.
The magic of peer pressure, coffee & snacks = focused time.
End the week on a good note: 1483, Room 312. interactingminds.au.dk/events/singl...
The magic of peer pressure, coffee & snacks = focused time.
End the week on a good note: 1483, Room 312. interactingminds.au.dk/events/singl...
Reposted by Interacting Minds Centre
🧟♂️🚨 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...
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...
August 8, 2025 at 9:25 AM
🧟♂️🚨 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...
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...
Coming up June 16th, we have a very special event for postdoc-level researchers - all are welcome to join us! Sign up here:
Play the GRANTED! Research Game and win 20,000 DKK for your interdisciplinary project. Networking, lunch, new research ideas interactingminds.au.dk/events/singl...
Play the GRANTED! Research Game and win 20,000 DKK for your interdisciplinary project. Networking, lunch, new research ideas interactingminds.au.dk/events/singl...
Play the “GRANTED!” Research Grant Game and win 20.000 DKK for your Interdisciplinary project
Interdisciplinary workshop for postdoc-level researchers
interactingminds.au.dk
June 10, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Coming up June 16th, we have a very special event for postdoc-level researchers - all are welcome to join us! Sign up here:
Play the GRANTED! Research Game and win 20,000 DKK for your interdisciplinary project. Networking, lunch, new research ideas interactingminds.au.dk/events/singl...
Play the GRANTED! Research Game and win 20,000 DKK for your interdisciplinary project. Networking, lunch, new research ideas interactingminds.au.dk/events/singl...
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How do we build theory in cogsci? traditional physics w its rich data and experimental possibilities is often used as parangon. We argue historical sciences provide an equally rich source: "Lessons for Theory from Scientific Domains Where Evidence is Sparse or Indirect": doi.org/10.1007/s421... 🧵 1/
May 8, 2025 at 7:59 AM
How do we build theory in cogsci? traditional physics w its rich data and experimental possibilities is often used as parangon. We argue historical sciences provide an equally rich source: "Lessons for Theory from Scientific Domains Where Evidence is Sparse or Indirect": doi.org/10.1007/s421... 🧵 1/
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Our 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/
May 9, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Our 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/
It was such a pleasure to have you here and discuss how abstraction plays out in conversations! (interactingminds.au.dk/events/singl...)
May 28, 2025 at 10:49 AM
It was such a pleasure to have you here and discuss how abstraction plays out in conversations! (interactingminds.au.dk/events/singl...)
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1/2 Coming up in June, @interacting-minds.bsky.social hosts a workshop for postdoc- level researchers.
Play the GRANTED! Research Game and win 20,000 DKK for your interdisciplinary project.
All welcome to join - we will place you into teams. Networking, lunch, new research ideas
Play the GRANTED! Research Game and win 20,000 DKK for your interdisciplinary project.
All welcome to join - we will place you into teams. Networking, lunch, new research ideas
Play the “GRANTED!” Research Grant Game and win 20.000 DKK for your Interdisciplinary project
Interdisciplinary workshop for postdoc-level researchers
interactingminds.au.dk
May 13, 2025 at 7:26 AM
1/2 Coming up in June, @interacting-minds.bsky.social hosts a workshop for postdoc- level researchers.
Play the GRANTED! Research Game and win 20,000 DKK for your interdisciplinary project.
All welcome to join - we will place you into teams. Networking, lunch, new research ideas
Play the GRANTED! Research Game and win 20,000 DKK for your interdisciplinary project.
All welcome to join - we will place you into teams. Networking, lunch, new research ideas
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Looking forward to Funda Yilmaz's talk tomorrow at IMC! @fundayilmaz.bsky.social
Next Tuesday Seminar at the IMC is by Funda Yilmaz from the Donders Institute!
An fMRI Study of Crossmodal Emotional Congruency and the Role of Semantic Content in the Aesthetic Appreciation of Naturalistic Art
Tuesday May 6th, 11am - all are welcome!
interactingminds.au.dk/events/singl...
An fMRI Study of Crossmodal Emotional Congruency and the Role of Semantic Content in the Aesthetic Appreciation of Naturalistic Art
Tuesday May 6th, 11am - all are welcome!
interactingminds.au.dk/events/singl...
An fMRI Study of Crossmodal Emotional Congruency and the Role of Semantic Content in the Aesthetic Appreciation of Naturalistic Art
IMC Tuesday Seminar: Talk by Funda Yilmaz, PhD candidate, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University
interactingminds.au.dk
May 5, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Looking forward to Funda Yilmaz's talk tomorrow at IMC! @fundayilmaz.bsky.social
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Tomorrow 6th May, we have Funda Yilmaz from @dondersinst.bsky.social giving a talk @interacting-minds.bsky.social, "An fMRI Study of Crossmodal Emotional Congruency + the Role of Semantic Content in the Aesthetic Appreciation of Naturalistic Art”.
All welcome!
interactingminds.au.dk/events/singl...
All welcome!
interactingminds.au.dk/events/singl...
An fMRI Study of Crossmodal Emotional Congruency and the Role of Semantic Content in the Aesthetic Appreciation of Naturalistic Art
IMC Tuesday Seminar: Talk by Funda Yilmaz, PhD candidate, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University
interactingminds.au.dk
May 5, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Tomorrow 6th May, we have Funda Yilmaz from @dondersinst.bsky.social giving a talk @interacting-minds.bsky.social, "An fMRI Study of Crossmodal Emotional Congruency + the Role of Semantic Content in the Aesthetic Appreciation of Naturalistic Art”.
All welcome!
interactingminds.au.dk/events/singl...
All welcome!
interactingminds.au.dk/events/singl...
Minds in society: Learning and cognition applied
Join us for this one-day interdisciplinary seminar with a stellar line-up incl Ophelia Deroy, Morten Nielsen, Christine Parsons, Ella Paldam, Marc Andersen!
All are welcome, feel free to sign up!
interactingminds.au.dk/events/singl...
(1/2)
Join us for this one-day interdisciplinary seminar with a stellar line-up incl Ophelia Deroy, Morten Nielsen, Christine Parsons, Ella Paldam, Marc Andersen!
All are welcome, feel free to sign up!
interactingminds.au.dk/events/singl...
(1/2)
Minds in society: Learning and cognition applied
One-day interdisciplinary seminar
interactingminds.au.dk
May 2, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Minds in society: Learning and cognition applied
Join us for this one-day interdisciplinary seminar with a stellar line-up incl Ophelia Deroy, Morten Nielsen, Christine Parsons, Ella Paldam, Marc Andersen!
All are welcome, feel free to sign up!
interactingminds.au.dk/events/singl...
(1/2)
Join us for this one-day interdisciplinary seminar with a stellar line-up incl Ophelia Deroy, Morten Nielsen, Christine Parsons, Ella Paldam, Marc Andersen!
All are welcome, feel free to sign up!
interactingminds.au.dk/events/singl...
(1/2)
Next Tuesday Seminar at the IMC is by Funda Yilmaz from the Donders Institute!
An fMRI Study of Crossmodal Emotional Congruency and the Role of Semantic Content in the Aesthetic Appreciation of Naturalistic Art
Tuesday May 6th, 11am - all are welcome!
interactingminds.au.dk/events/singl...
An fMRI Study of Crossmodal Emotional Congruency and the Role of Semantic Content in the Aesthetic Appreciation of Naturalistic Art
Tuesday May 6th, 11am - all are welcome!
interactingminds.au.dk/events/singl...
An fMRI Study of Crossmodal Emotional Congruency and the Role of Semantic Content in the Aesthetic Appreciation of Naturalistic Art
IMC Tuesday Seminar: Talk by Funda Yilmaz, PhD candidate, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University
interactingminds.au.dk
May 2, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Next Tuesday Seminar at the IMC is by Funda Yilmaz from the Donders Institute!
An fMRI Study of Crossmodal Emotional Congruency and the Role of Semantic Content in the Aesthetic Appreciation of Naturalistic Art
Tuesday May 6th, 11am - all are welcome!
interactingminds.au.dk/events/singl...
An fMRI Study of Crossmodal Emotional Congruency and the Role of Semantic Content in the Aesthetic Appreciation of Naturalistic Art
Tuesday May 6th, 11am - all are welcome!
interactingminds.au.dk/events/singl...
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Now 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
Deadline Monday Apr 27
www.au.dk/om/stillinge...
@interacting-minds.bsky.social
Postdoc in medical anthropology/STS - Ledig stilling på Aarhus Universitet
Ledig stilling ved Institut for Klinisk Medicin - Interacting Minds Centre (IMC), Aarhus Universitet
www.au.dk
April 24, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Now 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
Deadline Monday Apr 27
www.au.dk/om/stillinge...
@interacting-minds.bsky.social
IMC Podcast Season 4 is out!☀️
The 1st episode starts with the peculiar problems that house crows in Tanzania have brought to the coastal area of East Africa🐦⬛
Kirsi Tilk is visited by Samwel Ntapanta from the IMC Postdoc training program - Check out the podcast here!
interactingminds.au.dk/podcast
The 1st episode starts with the peculiar problems that house crows in Tanzania have brought to the coastal area of East Africa🐦⬛
Kirsi Tilk is visited by Samwel Ntapanta from the IMC Postdoc training program - Check out the podcast here!
interactingminds.au.dk/podcast
Interacting Minds Podcast
Interacting Minds is an interdisciplinary research podcast hosted by Arnault-Quentin Vermillet and Savhannah Schulz. In each episode, the two are joined by fellow interdisciplinary researchers to expl...
interactingminds.au.dk
April 11, 2025 at 8:15 AM
IMC Podcast Season 4 is out!☀️
The 1st episode starts with the peculiar problems that house crows in Tanzania have brought to the coastal area of East Africa🐦⬛
Kirsi Tilk is visited by Samwel Ntapanta from the IMC Postdoc training program - Check out the podcast here!
interactingminds.au.dk/podcast
The 1st episode starts with the peculiar problems that house crows in Tanzania have brought to the coastal area of East Africa🐦⬛
Kirsi Tilk is visited by Samwel Ntapanta from the IMC Postdoc training program - Check out the podcast here!
interactingminds.au.dk/podcast
Join us today, starting soon (incl on zoom)!
Next Tuesday (Apr, 8 11am) we're happy to have Prof Robert Barton, Durham University, presenting his talk:
Brains growing on the tree of life: the what, when, why & how of primate brain evolution
Join us at the IMC or online - all are welcome!
interactingminds.au.dk/events/singl...
Brains growing on the tree of life: the what, when, why & how of primate brain evolution
Join us at the IMC or online - all are welcome!
interactingminds.au.dk/events/singl...
Brains growing on the tree of life: the what, when, why & how of primate brain evolution
Interacting Minds Centre Tuesday Seminar: Talk by Robert Barton, professor, Department of Anthropology, Durham University
interactingminds.au.dk
April 8, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Join us today, starting soon (incl on zoom)!
Next Tuesday (Apr, 8 11am) we're happy to have Prof Robert Barton, Durham University, presenting his talk:
Brains growing on the tree of life: the what, when, why & how of primate brain evolution
Join us at the IMC or online - all are welcome!
interactingminds.au.dk/events/singl...
Brains growing on the tree of life: the what, when, why & how of primate brain evolution
Join us at the IMC or online - all are welcome!
interactingminds.au.dk/events/singl...
Brains growing on the tree of life: the what, when, why & how of primate brain evolution
Interacting Minds Centre Tuesday Seminar: Talk by Robert Barton, professor, Department of Anthropology, Durham University
interactingminds.au.dk
April 4, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Next Tuesday (Apr, 8 11am) we're happy to have Prof Robert Barton, Durham University, presenting his talk:
Brains growing on the tree of life: the what, when, why & how of primate brain evolution
Join us at the IMC or online - all are welcome!
interactingminds.au.dk/events/singl...
Brains growing on the tree of life: the what, when, why & how of primate brain evolution
Join us at the IMC or online - all are welcome!
interactingminds.au.dk/events/singl...
Tomorrow - Tuesday 25th March 11am, we have an excellent talk lined up with Alejandrina Cristia, senior researcher at CNRS
"Broadening giants' shoulders: Long-Form Recordings to Study Infants' Vocal Development and Speech Environments"
All are welcome! Building 1483, 312 (Meeting Room).
"Broadening giants' shoulders: Long-Form Recordings to Study Infants' Vocal Development and Speech Environments"
All are welcome! Building 1483, 312 (Meeting Room).
March 24, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Tomorrow - Tuesday 25th March 11am, we have an excellent talk lined up with Alejandrina Cristia, senior researcher at CNRS
"Broadening giants' shoulders: Long-Form Recordings to Study Infants' Vocal Development and Speech Environments"
All are welcome! Building 1483, 312 (Meeting Room).
"Broadening giants' shoulders: Long-Form Recordings to Study Infants' Vocal Development and Speech Environments"
All are welcome! Building 1483, 312 (Meeting Room).
Job opening at the IMC!!! - come work with @mettehoybye.bsky.social on this exciting new project.
Application deadline is April 28, 2025
Application deadline is April 28, 2025
📣 Come work with us at @interacting-minds.bsky.social to ethnographically explore how the shift from animal to human-based research models shapes science and society.
International applicants most welcome 🤗
health.au.dk/om-health/le...
International applicants most welcome 🤗
health.au.dk/om-health/le...
Postdoc in medical anthropology/STS - Ledig stilling på Aarhus Universitet
Ledig stilling ved Institut for Klinisk Medicin - Interacting Minds Centre (IMC), Aarhus Universitet
health.au.dk
March 17, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Job opening at the IMC!!! - come work with @mettehoybye.bsky.social on this exciting new project.
Application deadline is April 28, 2025
Application deadline is April 28, 2025
Looking forward to the PhD defence by IMC researcher and artist Helene Nymann from the EER project!
Thesis title: "Memories of Sustainable Futures: Mnemonic Practices for the Intersubjective Spaces Between Artworks and Worlds"
Open to all, 14 March, 1pm:
interactingminds.au.dk/events/singl...
Thesis title: "Memories of Sustainable Futures: Mnemonic Practices for the Intersubjective Spaces Between Artworks and Worlds"
Open to all, 14 March, 1pm:
interactingminds.au.dk/events/singl...
March 7, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Looking forward to the PhD defence by IMC researcher and artist Helene Nymann from the EER project!
Thesis title: "Memories of Sustainable Futures: Mnemonic Practices for the Intersubjective Spaces Between Artworks and Worlds"
Open to all, 14 March, 1pm:
interactingminds.au.dk/events/singl...
Thesis title: "Memories of Sustainable Futures: Mnemonic Practices for the Intersubjective Spaces Between Artworks and Worlds"
Open to all, 14 March, 1pm:
interactingminds.au.dk/events/singl...
New paper out on #JointAction from Cordula Vesper & co - big congrats!
Joint action partners modulate the first step of an action sequence to communicate a distal goal
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Joint action partners modulate the first step of an action sequence to communicate a distal goal
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Joint action partners modulate the first step of an action sequence to communicate a distal goal
When two co-actors perform a joint action, they often communicatively modulate their instrumental actions so as to facilitate each other's predictions…
www.sciencedirect.com
March 6, 2025 at 11:58 AM
New paper out on #JointAction from Cordula Vesper & co - big congrats!
Joint action partners modulate the first step of an action sequence to communicate a distal goal
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Joint action partners modulate the first step of an action sequence to communicate a distal goal
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Excited to join the Bsky community! As a starter post, will share a recent paper published with colleagues @janeenloehr.bsky.social, Cordula Vesper, @sinelabdtu.bsky.social, Simon L Kappel, @oleadrian.bsky.social, Peter Vuust, @perikeller.bsky.social: academic.oup.com/scan/article...
A practical guide to EEG hyperscanning in joint action research: from motivation to implementation
Abstract. Developments in cognitive neuroscience have led to the emergence of hyperscanning, the simultaneous measurement of brain activity from multiple p
academic.oup.com
December 6, 2024 at 8:11 AM
Excited to join the Bsky community! As a starter post, will share a recent paper published with colleagues @janeenloehr.bsky.social, Cordula Vesper, @sinelabdtu.bsky.social, Simon L Kappel, @oleadrian.bsky.social, Peter Vuust, @perikeller.bsky.social: academic.oup.com/scan/article...
We're looking forward to the next IMC Research Meeting tomorrow - and discussing the projects of Yngwie Asbjørn Nielsen and Luke Ring 🧠🌱
interactingminds.au.dk/events/singl...
interactingminds.au.dk/events/singl...
IMC Research Meeting for Experimental and Computational studies
An informal setting for discussing "work in progress"
interactingminds.au.dk
February 24, 2025 at 1:24 PM
We're looking forward to the next IMC Research Meeting tomorrow - and discussing the projects of Yngwie Asbjørn Nielsen and Luke Ring 🧠🌱
interactingminds.au.dk/events/singl...
interactingminds.au.dk/events/singl...