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...
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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Presseinformationen - Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
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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...
www.uni-goettingen.de/de/3240.html...
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/...
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...
Reposted by Tobias Kube
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
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@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....
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....
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...
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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October 1, 2025 at 5:10 AM
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...
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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September 30, 2025 at 6:26 AM
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...
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...
The update of interpersonal beliefs in everyday life situations in relation to depressive symptoms and state affect – An ecological momentary assessment proof-of-principle study
Previous research has provided valuable insights into associations of belief updating with aspects of psychopathology. However, prior work was mostly …
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September 25, 2025 at 6:53 AM
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...
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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September 22, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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 👇.
September 19, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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!
September 17, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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....
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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September 12, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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....
Reposted by Tobias Kube
🎬 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
September 8, 2025 at 9:13 AM
🎬 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...
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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September 4, 2025 at 9:02 AM
🥳🎉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...