Tobias Kube
@tobikube.bsky.social
Professor of Clinical Psychology and Experimental Psychopathology at Uni Frankfurt. Head of the Emmy Noether Group for Experimental Research on Depression. Interested in how people construe and sustain their subjective reality.
🎉🥳 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...
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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February 13, 2026 at 7:06 AM
🎉🥳 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...
Reposted by Tobias Kube
🤕 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! 😰
There is therefore a risk that careless wording could cause confusion or even anxiety! 😰
February 2, 2026 at 9:26 AM
🤕 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! 😰
There is therefore a risk that careless wording could cause confusion or even anxiety! 😰
Reposted by Tobias Kube
🚨🚨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...
⏰ 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 🌊!
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January 18, 2026 at 6:36 PM
🚨🚨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...
⏰ 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...
Schöner Beitrag über den JAMA Letter von @rief01.bsky.social und mir. flugundzeit.blog/drei-von-hun...
Die Macht der Zahlen: 3% vs. drei von Hundert verstehen
Entdecken Sie, wie Sprache und Zahlen unsere Wahrnehmung von Heilung und Risiken beeinflussen – eine spannende Analyse von Kube und Rief.
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January 30, 2026 at 4:51 PM
Schöner Beitrag über den JAMA Letter von @rief01.bsky.social und mir. flugundzeit.blog/drei-von-hun...
🎉 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/....
<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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January 28, 2026 at 7:52 AM
🎉 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/....
🎉 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...
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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January 27, 2026 at 9:07 AM
🎉 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...
🧠💡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...
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...
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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January 23, 2026 at 7:55 AM
🧠💡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...
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...
Here you can find the entire article selection of the special issue: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu.... It was a great pleasure working on this and I hope it will help further spread this burgeoning field.
Behaviour Research and Therapy | The Role of Belief Updating in Psychopathology: Relevance, Mechanisms, and Clinical Implications | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier
When people encounter new information, this is an opportunity for them to update their beliefs about themselves, other people, or the world. Recent research, however, suggests that people with mental ...
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November 21, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Here you can find the entire article selection of the special issue: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu.... It was a great pleasure working on this and I hope it will help further spread this burgeoning field.
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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November 21, 2025 at 6:19 AM
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...
Reposted by Tobias Kube
✨Wunderbare Neuigkeiten: Die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft fördert unser neues Netzwerk SNEPP – das Scientific Network for Experimental Psychopathology and Psychotherapy!
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November 17, 2025 at 3:14 PM
✨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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Thanks @soerenkrach.bsky.social and team for this nice collaborative work!
November 14, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Thanks @soerenkrach.bsky.social and team for this nice collaborative work!
At the same time, dep was not associated with an enhanced integration of negative feedback. Thus, the results are well-consistent with a recent meta-analysis on belief updating deficits in depression: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Belief Updating Deficits in Depression: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Prior studies have found that depression is linked to altered belief updating, but the strength and conditions of this association, such as its depend…
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November 14, 2025 at 7:10 AM
At the same time, dep was not associated with an enhanced integration of negative feedback. Thus, the results are well-consistent with a recent meta-analysis on belief updating deficits in depression: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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/...
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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November 14, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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/...
Yet, one more article is to come: the editorial by Jonas and me that introduces the special issue in its entirety. Stay tuned!
October 31, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Yet, one more article is to come: the editorial by Jonas and me that introduces the special issue in its entirety. Stay tuned!
It was a great pleasure to organise this special issue together with Jonas Everaert. Thanks to all authors for submitting their work to it and to all reviewers who dedicated their time to it as well! Thanks to Michelle Craske for inviting me to organise this and give the topic such a nice platform!
October 31, 2025 at 7:11 PM
It was a great pleasure to organise this special issue together with Jonas Everaert. Thanks to all authors for submitting their work to it and to all reviewers who dedicated their time to it as well! Thanks to Michelle Craske for inviting me to organise this and give the topic such a nice platform!
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...
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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October 31, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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...
Hi @jensfoell.de, vielen Dank für die Anfrage! Prinzipiell fände ich das interessant, aber auf absehbare Zeit sehe ich nicht, wie ich dafür Kapazitäten aufbringen kann, da ich erst vor relativ kurzem meine Professur in FFM begonnen habe und dort alle Hände voll zu tun habe an diversen Ecken.
October 31, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Hi @jensfoell.de, vielen Dank für die Anfrage! Prinzipiell fände ich das interessant, aber auf absehbare Zeit sehe ich nicht, wie ich dafür Kapazitäten aufbringen kann, da ich erst vor relativ kurzem meine Professur in FFM begonnen habe und dort alle Hände voll zu tun habe an diversen Ecken.
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New preprint by
@annalinavmayer.bsky.social and team members together with @tobikube.bsky.social
💫
„Self-esteem modulates beneficial causal attributions in the formation of novel self-beliefs“
#affectedbeliefs #sociallearning #beliefformation
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
@annalinavmayer.bsky.social and team members together with @tobikube.bsky.social
💫
„Self-esteem modulates beneficial causal attributions in the formation of novel self-beliefs“
#affectedbeliefs #sociallearning #beliefformation
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Self-esteem modulates beneficial causal attributions in the formation of novel self-beliefs
Healthy individuals typically attribute successes to internal causes, such as their abilities, and failures to external factors, like bad luck. In contrast, individuals with depression and low self-es...
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October 28, 2025 at 2:04 PM
New preprint by
@annalinavmayer.bsky.social and team members together with @tobikube.bsky.social
💫
„Self-esteem modulates beneficial causal attributions in the formation of novel self-beliefs“
#affectedbeliefs #sociallearning #beliefformation
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
@annalinavmayer.bsky.social and team members together with @tobikube.bsky.social
💫
„Self-esteem modulates beneficial causal attributions in the formation of novel self-beliefs“
#affectedbeliefs #sociallearning #beliefformation
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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.
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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October 28, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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.
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 👇
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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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October 9, 2025 at 6:38 AM
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 👇
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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....
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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October 7, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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....
From my perspective, an intriguing finding from this study is that the two factors are relatively independent from each other. You could expect the level of fear to reduce when expectancies are violated, and vice versa, but the authors show that these factors independently predict treatment outcome.
October 6, 2025 at 9:46 AM
From my perspective, an intriguing finding from this study is that the two factors are relatively independent from each other. You could expect the level of fear to reduce when expectancies are violated, and vice versa, but the authors show that these factors independently predict treatment outcome.
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....
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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October 6, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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....
Thanks to Edith in particular for this nice work, but also to @neutrophine.bsky.social and Julia Glombiewski for supporting this research!
October 1, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Thanks to Edith in particular for this nice work, but also to @neutrophine.bsky.social and Julia Glombiewski for supporting this research!
Why is this relevant? How we search for information determines the subjective reality each of us construes. Understanding the biases people with dep symptoms have in this information seeking process may thus explain why they often end up with a negative view of themselves and the world.
October 1, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Why is this relevant? How we search for information determines the subjective reality each of us construes. Understanding the biases people with dep symptoms have in this information seeking process may thus explain why they often end up with a negative view of themselves and the world.