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.
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....
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🎬 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...
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.
August 28, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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...
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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August 25, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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...
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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August 21, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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...
Reposted by Tobias Kube
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.
As we begin to process this immense loss, let us remember Andrea for her remarkable legacy and kindness she brought into our lives.
August 5, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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.
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/...
<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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May 22, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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.
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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.
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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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May 15, 2025 at 6:16 PM
🎉🥳 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...
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 👇
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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 👇
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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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April 6, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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...
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
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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
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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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April 4, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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...
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?👇
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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?👇
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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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April 1, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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/...
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! 😊
March 11, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Very much looking forward to my new position in Frankfurt! 😊