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Tobias Kube @tobikube.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

📢Studienteilnehmende gesucht📢 Meine neue Doktorandin Fiona Friedrich testet eine neue experimentelle Aufgabe zu sozialem Lernen in der psychotherapeutischen Beziehung. Online bearbeitbar, kein Vorwissen nötig. Hier geht's zur Studie 👇 www.soscisurvey.de/TATRUSTFF/

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Tobias Kube @tobikube.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

New article with @a-seewald.bsky.social: We show that patients' responses to normal diagnostic test results critically depend on the doctor's behaviour. If they are warm and competent, patients can take in such information much better and have less desire to consult other doctors or have more tests.

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Tobias Kube @tobikube.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Was ich nicht mehr hören kann: Wenn davon gesprochen wird, was "die Leute" angeblich wollen. Abgesehen davon, dass ich es ziemlich anmaßend finde, ohne Mandat für die vermeintlichen Wünsche anderer zu sprechen, ist diese Floskel in einer hoch individualisierten Gesellschaft analytisch wertlos.

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The Power of Expectations @sfb-trr-289.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Great work from our affiliated project AF05 led by @tobikube.bsky.social! 🌟 Positive framing (the likelihood of NOT HAVING a disease) reduces perceived risk & emotional concern to normal diagnostic test results. It also reduces intentions for follow-up consultations & further tests.

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Liron Rozenkrantz @lironrozenkrantz.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

🔥🔥New paper alert! Super excited to share our paper, out today in @nathumbehav.nature.com, led by the wonderful Dr. Nofar Mizrachi! nature.com/articles/s41... To me, this finding fundamentally changes how we should think about the relationship between cognition and immune regulation:

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Voluntary attention regulates acute immune responses in humans - Nature Human Behaviour

Mizrachi et al. show that directing attention to bodily sensations, rather than away, promotes more regulated acute inflammatory responses in healthy volunteers, revealing sensory and vagal pathways l...

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Tobias Kube @tobikube.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

In this new study published open access in Translational Medicine @springernature.com we show that in a sample of clinically depressed people, higher symptom burden is related to reduced learning from positive prediction errors and aberrant neural response to neg PEs. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Aberrant insula activity to negative and reduced learning from positive feedback underlie maladaptive self-beliefs in depression - Translational Psychiatry

Translational Psychiatry - Aberrant insula activity to negative and reduced learning from positive feedback underlie maladaptive self-beliefs in depression

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Tobias Kube @tobikube.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Is 10% the same as 1 in 10? It is not, our results suggest, at least not in terms of how people respond to such likelihoods when it comes to medical diagnostic information. Results speak to the importance of thoughtful likelihood framing in clinical practice. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti....

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When ‘unlikely’ is not the same as ‘likely not’: Effects of likelihood framing and numerical format on patients’ responses to normal diagnostic test results

Communicating the results of diagnostic testing is a central task in clinical practice. Even when results are normal, patients may remain concerned, p…

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The Power of Expectations @sfb-trr-289.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

“People interpret numbers in very different ways,” says psychologist @tobikube.bsky.social in the latest episode of our CRC podcast 🎙️👨‍⚕️ In medicine, it is particularly important to communicate quantities and figures sensitively. Listen now: open.spotify.com/episode/6mC0...

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Tobias Kube @tobikube.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

🎉🥳📢: New article published in @commspsychol.nature.com! We show that causal attributions regarding success vs. failure modulate the formation and update of self-beliefs and these effects are moderated by self-esteem, pointing to the clinical relevance of the findings. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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Tobias Kube @tobikube.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Guter Artikel über die Anreizstrukturen, die zu ineffizienter, teurer und nicht besonders guter stationärer psychiatrischer Versorgung führen. Was es bräuchte: mehr ambulante Versorgung, mehr stationsäquivalente Behandlung und flexiblere Abrechnungsmöglichkeiten stationär www.zeit.de/gesundheit/2...

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Psychiatrische Kliniken: Drei Wochen auf Station, dann alleine nach Hause

Die deutsche Psychiatrie ist teuer, aber nur mittelgut. Die Regierung will nichts ändern. Das zeigt ein Papier, das der ZEIT vorliegt. Experten wüssten, was zu tun wäre.

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Tobias Kube @tobikube.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Für unser Team in Frankfurt suchen wir eine:n Postdoc und Psychotherapeut:in (Fachkunde VT). Stellenbeginn zum 1.10.26 bzw. nach Absprache auch früher oder später. Konzipiert als 80% Stelle, aber 100% wären nach Absprache auch möglich. Jetzt bewerben bis 5.5.26, mehr Details siehe 👇

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Tobias Kube @tobikube.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Toller Artikel @zeit.de über Placebo-Effekte @sfb-trr-289.bsky.social. Toll auf den Punkt gebracht, dass der Placebo-Effekt ein klinisch extremlich nützlicher Mechanismus ist, der von Medizin und Pharma als Freund, nicht als Feind, betrachtet werden sollte. www.zeit.de/gesundheit/2...

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Placebo-Forschung: Placebos sind der Schlüssel zu einer menschlichen Medizin

Wir haben eine Apotheke in uns, die wir kostenlos nutzen können. Der Placebo-Effekt ist so stark, dass wir eigentlich das gesamte Gesundheitswesen umkrempeln müssten.

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Tobias Kube @tobikube.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Wissenschaft & Psychotherapie verbinden? In unserer Psychotherapie-Ambulanz an der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt ist das im Rahmen einer Clinician Scientist Postdoc-Stelle (VT Erw., E14, 80%, befristet zunächst für 3 Jahre) möglich. Bewerbungsfrist: 05.05.2026. Mehr 👉: www.psychjob.eu/de/job/wisse...

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Tobias Kube @tobikube.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

🎉🥳 New article by my PhD student Alexandra Spaeth: We investigated pupillary responses to novel positive vs. negative information on interpersonal scenarios in people with major depression vs. healthy control participants. Published open access in BRAT 👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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No distorted prediction error processing in depression? Pupillary responses to expected vs. unexpected emotional information in clinically depressed and healthy individuals

Depression has been associated with a reduced ability to update negative beliefs, possibly driven by difficulties integrating new positive information…

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The Power of Expectations @sfb-trr-289.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

🤕 Many patients find it difficult to interpret figures relating to frequencies and probabilities in medicine. There is therefore a risk that careless wording could cause confusion or even anxiety! 😰

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Julie Ji @julieji.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

🚨🚨Abstract submission deadline extended!🚨🚨 ⏰ New submission deadline is 16th of February 2026 📢 <1 month left to submit abstracts for the 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 𝗔𝘂𝘁𝗼𝗯𝗶𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗵𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 & 𝗣𝘀𝘆𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 hashtag#APP2026, 23rd-24th June in Plymouth, UK 🌊! 📌Visit: www.plymouth.ac.uk/whats-on/aut...

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Autobiographical Processing and Psychopathology Conference 2026

What's on at the University of Plymouth: Autobiographical Processing and Psychopathology Conference 2026. Special interest meeting. University of...

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Tobias Kube @tobikube.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

🎉 New article on the effects of likelihood framing on nocebo side effects. Finding: Framing influenced side effect expectations, but not side effect experiences - presumably due to insufficient nocebo effects induced by the experimental model. OA👇 bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/....

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<em>British Journal of Health Psychology</em> | Wiley Online Library

Objectives This research examined whether different framings of the likelihood of side effects influence their occurrence in response to a placebo analgesic. Design Three independent experimental ...

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Tobias Kube @tobikube.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

🎉 Happy to share a Letter with @rief01.bsky.social in @jama.com: We argue that clinicians should be aware of framing effects when communicating likelihoods. Eg, patients perceive "1 in 10 have side effects" as more concerning than "9 in 10 do not have side effects". jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

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Communicating Medical Numbers

To the Editor Dr Zikmund-Fisher and colleagues1 highlight several important caveats regarding the presentation of numbers in medical communication and provide thoughtful suggestions for clinicians on ...

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Tobias Kube @tobikube.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

🧠💡Reden ist Silber, Ausprobieren ist Gold! Am 20.06. organisieren wir in Frankfurt ein Praxissymposium zum Thema Verhaltensexperimente. Programm: Vorträge & Workshops mit führenden Expert:innen, u.a. @michaelwitthoeft.bsky.social. Jetzt informieren & anmelden! www.uni-frankfurt.de/110078906/Pr...

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Goethe-Universität — Praxissymposium

Die Goethe-Universität ist eine forschungsstarke Hochschule in der europäischen Finanzmetropole Frankfurt. Lebendig, urban und weltoffen besitzt sie als Stiftungsuniversität ein einzigartiges Maß an E...

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Tobias Kube @tobikube.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Happy to share the last contribution of our special issue on belief updating in Behaviour Research and Therapy: Jonas'es and my editorial, providing a brief narrative review of the topic and an introduction to the articles of the special issue. authors.elsevier.com/a/1m7Eo1KMdl...

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Marcella Woud @marcellawoud.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

✨Wunderbare Neuigkeiten: Die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft fördert unser neues Netzwerk SNEPP – das Scientific Network for Experimental Psychopathology and Psychotherapy! www.uni-goettingen.de/de/3240.html...

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Presseinformationen - Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

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Tobias Kube @tobikube.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

New paper in CPS 🎉: We developed and validated a novel trial-by-trial belief update task, which allowed us to examine the association with depression quite precisely: dep symptoms were related to a slower update of established negative beliefs following pos info. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Intraindividual Trajectories of Belief Updating in Relation to Depressive Symptoms: Reduced Integration of Positive Performance Feedback - Sebastian Meyerhöfer, Charlotte Ottenstein, Lukas Kirchner, L...

Previous research suggests that depression is related to difficulties with revising established negative expectations. However, it is not yet clear how precisel...

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Tobias Kube @tobikube.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Happy (and sad) to share the last article of our special issue on belief updating in BRAT: it's on how people update attributions of negative events (e.g., bad luck, my own incompetence, etc.) and how this relates to psychopathology. Open access: 👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Updating Inferences About Negative Events: Does the Direction of the Update Matter?

Belief updating—the revision of beliefs in light of new evidence—is central to adaptive cognition and emotion regulation yet often disrupted in emotio…

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Tobias Kube @tobikube.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Next article of our special issue published in BRAT, examining the role of childhood maltreatment (CM): www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... Adults with CM history showed impaired belief updating when interacting with strangers and such deficits moderated the association of CM and PTSD symptoms.

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From Maltreatment to Mistrust: Impaired Belief Updating as a Mechanism Linking Childhood Maltreatment to Interpersonal and Clinical Outcomes

Childhood maltreatment (CM), defined as caregiver-perpetrated abuse or neglect during childhood or adolescence, is associated with enduring social dys…

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Tobias Kube @tobikube.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

In Frankfurt ist zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt eine W2 Professur für Klinische Psychoanalyse zu besetzen, mit erforderlicher Fachkunde in tiefenpsychologisch-fundierter Psychotherapie oder analytischer Psychotherapie. Bei Interesse freuen wir über Bewerbungen! Details 👇 jobs.zeit.de/jobs/profess...

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Professur (W2) für Klinische Psychoanalyse - Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main

Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main bietet Stelle als Professur (W2) für Klinische Psychoanalyse in Frankfurt am Main - jetzt bewerben!

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Tobias Kube @tobikube.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Happy to see the next article of our special issue in BRAT (open access): The authors investigated the associaiton of social anxiety and belief updating in the context of the jumping-to-conclusion bias, using a Bayesian compuational modelling approach. Details👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti....

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The effect of state anxiety on jumping-to-conclusions bias in social anxiety: An experimental and computational modelling study

Research indicates that the tendency to make hasty decisions based on minimal information, also known as the Jumping-to-Conclusions bias, may be linke…

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Tobias Kube @tobikube.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Great to see the next article of our special issue on belief updating out in BRAT. In this large clinical trial, the authors investigated the relative importance of expectancy violation vs fear reduction as two rationales of exposure therapy. For details, see 👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti....

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Same same but different: Threat expectancy change and fear reduction as readouts of exposure rationales are only weakly associated and contribute differentially to treatment outcome in anxiety disorde...

Responses to exposure therapy vary across individuals, emphasizing the need for a deeper understanding of its underlying mechanisms. This study examin…

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Tobias Kube @tobikube.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Excited to share this new article of my PhD student Edith Rapo on the association between depression and seeking feedback from others about oneself, depending on the anticipated feedback's valence and congruence with the self-perception. Open Acces in BRAT 👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Better to keep a negative self-perception than ask for feedback? - How depressive symptoms are associated with the desire for social feedback

We investigated whether depressive symptom severity is associated with incongruence between how people perceive themselves (self-perception) and how t…

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Tobias Kube @tobikube.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Happy to share the first meta-analysis on biased belief updating in depression, published in Clin Psych Rev. Across 29 studies, depression was related to a reduced belief update following positive information, but not to an increased update following neg info. 👇 authors.elsevier.com/c/1lsBL~0r1z...

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Tobias Kube @tobikube.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

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...

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Biased Belief Updating in Relation To Depressive Symptoms: Evidence from Two Studies Using Feedback from Real Social Interactions - Cognitive Therapy and Research

Background Depression has been related to difficulties in updating negative beliefs in response to novel positive information. Research on this issue in the context of social feedback is scarce, thoug...

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Tobias Kube @tobikube.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

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 👇.

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Tobias Kube @tobikube.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

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!

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Tobias Kube @tobikube.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

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....

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Testing associations between negative interpretation inflexibility, anxiety symptoms and intolerance of uncertainty

Anxiety is a highly prevalent psychological problem. Transdiagnostic mechanisms such as intolerance of uncertainty and repetitive negative thinking (R…

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Goethe-Universität Frankfurt @goetheuni.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

🎬 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

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Tobias Kube @tobikube.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

🥳🎉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...

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Differences between persistent and episodic depression in processing novel positive information | Psychological Medicine | Cambridge Core

Differences between persistent and episodic depression in processing novel positive information - Volume 55

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Tobias Kube @tobikube.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

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.

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Tobias Kube @tobikube.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

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...

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Are Biased and Inflexible Updating of Interpretations Broad or Narrow Transdiagnostic Risk Markers for Psychopathology? A Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP) Lens

Previous research has linked biased and inflexible interpretations of ambiguous information to various forms of psychopathology. However, existing stu…

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Tobias Kube @tobikube.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

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...

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Biased and Inflexible Interpretations of Social Situations Predict Depressive Symptoms and Relational Outcomes in Parent-Adolescent Dyads

Adolescence is a critical period for social-emotional development, characterized by increased risk for psychopathology and disruptive changes in the p…

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Luana Colloca @luanacolloca.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

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.

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Tobias Kube @tobikube.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

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/...

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<em>British Journal of Social Psychology</em> | Wiley Online Library

We investigated the preregistered hypothesis that an optimistic bias in updating beliefs about climate change (i.e., integrating good news more than bad news) cross-sectionally (NStudy 1 = 109) and l....

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Tobias Kube @tobikube.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

🎉🥳 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...

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It's the content of the feedback that matters, not the person giving it: An experimental study on change of negative performance expectations

Previous research on biased expectation change has mainly focused on the mechanisms underlying the deficient processing of novel positive information …

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Tobias Kube @tobikube.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

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...

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How people with major depression adjust their expectations of future life events in response to other patients’ reports of the positive effects of psychotherapy

Research proposed the devaluation of positive information, referred to as cognitive immunisation, as a mechanism underlying the persistence of negativ…

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Tobias Kube @tobikube.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

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...

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How the discrepancy between expectation and outcome influences expectation change in relation to depressive symptoms – Results from four experimental studies

Traditional associative learning models and their clinical applications suggest that the greater the discrepancy between expectations and outcome, the…

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Tobias Kube @tobikube.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

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/...

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Selektive Integration überzeugungskongruenter Informationen: Normaler psychologischer Prozess oder Merkmal psychischer Störungen?: Psychologische Rundschau: Vol 0, No 0

Zusammenfassung: Wenn Menschen bestimmte Kernüberzeugungen über sich selbst, andere Menschen oder die Welt entwickelt haben, bleiben diese oft erstaunlich stabil. Eine Vielzahl von Mechanismen führt d...

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Tobias Kube @tobikube.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

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

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