Happy to share this new article with @saskiascholten.bsky.social, providing proof-of-principle evidence for biased belief updating in relation to depressive symptoms using ecological momentary assessments. Part of the special issue on belief updating in BRAT. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New article on biased belief updating in relation to depressive symptoms. In 2 studies using real social interactions, dep symptoms were related to a reduced update of self-beliefs after positive social feedback and increased learning from neg fb relative to pos fb. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Dear journal editors, I urge you to establish or expand author-friendly submission guidelines that avoid unnecessary time-consuming formatting work. Although some journals have already made progress in this area, there is still much room for improvement. A plea based on a few painful experiences 👇.

So much fun to be at the annual congress of the @cbmassociation.bsky.social. Thanks to Yannick Vander Zwalmen for putting together a nice symposium, to which I could contribute, and to the organisation committee for nicely hosting this conference. Looking forward to future conferences!

Great to see the third article of our special issue on belief updating out in BRAT. In two studies, Gabriella Tyson et al. examined the associations among belief updating, anxiety, and intolerance of uncertainty. For details, see the Open Access publication: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti....

🎬 Neuer Prof an der #GoetheUni! Prof. Dr. @tobikube.bsky.social forscht zu depressionsbezogenen Informationsverarbeitungsprozessen sowie #PTBS, somatischen Belastungsstörungen & Placebo-/Nocebo-Effekten. Jetzt kennenlernen: youtu.be/AY7Dh4--1mM #Neuberufen

🥳🎉New article on a comparison of episodic vs. persistent (i.e., chronic) depression. Key finding: people with persistent depression have lower treatment expectations and more difficulty to adjust them in response to new information. Open Access in Psychological Med: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Quite funny how much time changes: As a student, I laughed at how true this is; today, as a professor, I'm frustrated about how untrue this (mostly) is. Actually, the rare moments when I get to analyse data myself, besides administrative stuff and house keeping, are of such indescribable joy now.

Great to see the second article published in our special issue on belief updating in BRAT: A promising and compelling application of a HiTOP perspective to biased belief/interpretation updating by Lisa Vos and others. See more 👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Great to see the first article published in our special issue on the role of belief updating in psychopathology in Behaviour Reseaerch and Therapy. Looking forward also to seeing the other articles to come. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

It is with profound sadness that we share that Professor Andrea Evers passed away. Andrea was a visionary leader, a brilliant scientist, and a compassionate colleague. As we begin to process this immense loss, let us remember Andrea for her remarkable legacy and kindness she brought into our lives.

Why do people have so much difficulty to take climate change sufficiently seriously and act accordingly, despite ample evidence? Here we show that this may be related to the propensity to integrate good news about climate change more than bad news. bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🎉🥳 New article in BRAT: Prior research on belief updating, including my own work, has neglected characteristics of the person who provides new information. Here, we systematically manipulated the person's behaviour and examined its effect on belief updating. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Happy to share this new article published open access in BRAT🎉📢: In a relatively large experimental study funded by @dfg.de, we examined cognitive immunisation as a mechanism of biased belief updating in depression. Results suggest a nuanced picture. See more 👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Excited to share a new article published in the J of Affective Disorders: In four experiments, we systematically examined the relationship between the strength of an expectation violation and the extent of expectation change/updating, for pos vs neg information www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Neuer d. Open Access Artikel: Die selektive Integration von Informationen in bestehende Überzeugungen wird als Kernmerkmal psychischer Störungen diskutiert. Psychisch gesunde Menschen tun das aber auch. Wie lässt sich dieser offenkundige Widerspruch auflösen?👇 econtent.hogrefe.com/doi/10.1026/...

Very much looking forward to my new position in Frankfurt! 😊

What we’re witnessing in America is what happens when disordered discourse captures a political party, then the state itself. The Republican Party was the first to fall - abandoning truth for conspiracy, ideology for grievance, and policy for performative outrage.

🧵Delighted to share a new guest post by Dr Anne Toomey on **8 things scientists can do right now to stand up for science in the US** Thread of her *evidence-based* actions follows, whole post here christinapagel.substack.com/p/eight-thin... 1/11

Interessanter Artikel @derfreitag.bsky.social zum Thema Depression und Grübeln, vor allem im Winter, zu dem ich auch einige Einschätzungen abgegeben habe: www.freitag.de/autoren/der-....

📢JOB ALERT📢 Zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt suche ich für meine neue Abteilung in Frankfurt jmd. für die wiss. Leitung der experimentalpsych. Labore, mit Schwerpunkt auf Eyetracking. Wenn ihr jmd. kennt, die/der jmd. kennt usw., freue ich mich sehr übers Teilen!👇 www.uni-frankfurt.de/48794805/FB0...

Excited to have our new paper out in @cpsyjournal.bsky.social 🎉✨ with my amazing co-authors @christopherjwhyte.bsky.social @hohwy.bsky.social We develop an active inference model of the optimism bias to model development, belief updating and optimistic action. cpsyjournal.org/articles/10....

Zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt ist in Landau eine W3 Professur für Klinische KiJu ausgeschrieben. Es ist ein tolles Arbeitsumfeld mit tollen Kolleg:innen, bei gleichzeitig entspannter Grundatmosphäre und pfälzischer Gemütlichkeit. Die genaue Ausschreibung gibt es hier 👇 jobs.rptu.de/jobposting/e...

📢New article📢: We provide experimental evidence that threat perception influences the formation of intrusive memories. This study goes back to a hypothesis we derived here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... Nice to see that the results are beautifully consistent with this hypothesis :)

🎉New open access article by Nofar Mizrachi supervised by @lironrozenkrantz.bsky.social, to which I was happy to contribute: bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/.... Across 3 studies, we show that people's beliefs about their immune system predicted the course of somatic symptoms over 1 y.

Happy to announce that I accepted an offer of the University of Frankfurt to become (full) Professor of Clinical Psychology and Experimental Psychopathology from 1 April 2025. Very much looking forward to working with great colleagues like @christianfiebach.bsky.social and @yeeleeshing.bsky.social.

🚨Keynote speakers for the Computational Psychiatry Conference (14-16th July, Tubingen) announced 📢 Very excited to have excellent keynotes across theory-driven CP, machine learning, and clinical psychiatry: Andreas Heinz Georgia Koppe Chandra Sripada Sophie Valk Tor Wager #cpconf25 www.cpconf.org

📢 Neuer deutschsprachiger Artikel von @rief01.bsky.social und mir zu Placebo-Effekten bei Antidepressiva. 📢 Bottom line: Placebo-Effekte sind gerade bei AD besonders stark. Das wirft kritische Fragen zur wissenschaftlichen Bewertung von AD auf. Open Access hier: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🎉🍾📢New paper by my great PhD student Edith Rapo published open access in Cog Ther & Research: link.springer.com/article/10.1.... Previous research has shown that negative affect hinders the update of negative beliefs in depression. Our current data, however, suggests that it may not be that simple.

Editorial celebrating the work of Hannah Murray, who left us far too soon.

Social expectations in depression Review by Lukas Kirchner, Tobias Kube, Max Berg, Anna-Lena Eckert, Benjamin Straube, Dominik Endres & Winfried Rief Web: go.nature.com/41kXLO1 PDF: rdcu.be/d2yHr #psychology #psychscisky #clinpsy

🍾New article out in @natrevpsych.bsky.social🍾: We review how social expectations form and change in individuals with depression and how they shape the onset, course, and severity of depression. Particular emphasis is on why social expectations persist despite pos info. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

🎉New OA article out in BRAT🎉: Negative self-beliefs are prevalent depression and have many negative consequences for the individual. So, shouldn't individuals then be eager to change them? Experimental research shows that they aren't. Here, we explore why. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🎉New paper out in COTR🎉: In an experimental study using a clinical sample, we failed to replicate our previous finding that cognitive immunisation modulates change in negative expectations in major depression. What can be learnt from this failed replication? See👇 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Can placebos reduce #intrusions? 💊 Find out now!👇🏻 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #PsychSky #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky

Are depressive symptoms related to the presence of *negative* expectations, the absence of *positive* expectations, or both? 💭 Find out in the paper by @tobikube.bsky.social !👇🏻 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #PsychSky #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky #Depression

100 days to go to submit your symposia, skills classes, in-conference workshops, panel discussions and clinical roundtables for #EABCT2025 in Glasgow next year! Check out the website for keynotes and workshops confirmed so far, and for all submission info: eabct2025.org @drjodaniels.bsky.social

It was with great pleasure to present at the Psychopathology and Affective Neuroscience Lab in Ghent, Belgium. Thanks to Yannick Zwalmen, Ernst Koster, Kristof Hoorelbeke and others for having me. Looking forward to future collaborations.

I made a clinical psychology/psychotherapy research starter pack thingy. If you are new here and interested in these topics, feel free to follow! go.bsky.app/Qk93DiE

Not sure if I’m doing this right, but I’ve had a go at starting a ‘Reconceptualising psychopathology’ starter pack (e.g., HiTOP, RDoC, dynamic systems, clinical staging). Please do send me suggestions or requests to be added! go.bsky.app/Pek9ycQ

I'm putting together a Computational Psychiatry Starter Pack, still tiny! Drop a comment if you feel like you should be added :) go.bsky.app/5PTy9Zj

Exciting to see Bluesky grow! I created a starter pack for folks interested in all things traumatic stress. Please don’t hesitate to add: go.bsky.app/MHqLdaG

Starter pack for those working on misinfo, disinfo, information integrity, digital authoritarianism, propaganda etc. Definitely a work in progress, reply if you want to be added! go.bsky.app/V4Po9wB

🎉 Welcome to all affective scientists and emotion enthusiasts who’ve recently joined Bluesky! We’ve created a starter pack to help you connect with others in the field—take a look to discover great people to follow. Reach out if you'd like to be added to the list! #AffectSci go.bsky.app/JU6K9No

I have started a Behavioural Science starter pack - just let me know if you would like to be added - see go.bsky.app/CzLwTyZ

Es geht schon lange nicht mehr um echte Klima- oder Energiewende-Kommunikation. Es geht um Fake News, Politik und Macht. Es geht um Demokratie. Es geht um Frieden. Wir brauchen endlich Strategien, um nicht zu scheitern. Der ganze Beitrag 👇 www.klimareporter.de/gesellschaft...

📢New paper out in Emotion📢 We investigated how ppl update their views of themselves in response to real social feedback from others. Whether ppl can accept such feedback, depends on their current mood, our results show. Full text can be accessed via ResearchGate: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Beim Grübeln macht sich das Gehirn vergeblich auf die Suche nach Lösungen. Auf Dauer ein Risiko für Depression. Was dagegen hilft, erklärt der Psychologe Tobias Kube.

Mit ZEIT ONLINE habe ich ein Interview zum Thema (pathologisches) Grübeln geführt für die Reihe "Geht's dir auch so?". Sehr spannende Aufbereitung des Themas, @zeit.de! www.zeit.de/gesundheit/2...