Michael Witthöft

How temporally stable are somatic symptoms induced by a commonly used experimental paradigm? And do they predict somatic symptom distress over time?

These questions were addressed in an Open Access study of participants who completed the Affect and Symptom Paradigm 18 months apart. #PsychSciSky

Interoceptive Ability is Unrelated to Mental Health Symptoms: Evidence From a Large Scale Multi-Domain Psychophysical Investigation Interoception-the sensing and perception of the internal viscera-is widely cast as a transdiagnostic mechanism linking brain-body interaction to mental illness. Prevailing models propose that altered ...

Are interoception and mental health linked? Many assume so, with interoception even described as a psychiatric “p-factor.” But in our latest preprint, we were surprised to find little evidence for such a connection. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵 Thread with our reflections on the matter 👇

Psychotherapists have claimed for >100 years that they provide/adjust interventions in view of the client's characteristics -- but all based on their personal experiences and opinions. Here we have the first-ever system to do so based on evidence.

@severinhennemann.bsky.social

🔥Frisch gedruckt im PTJ🔥: @tkaiser.science , Rafaële Huntjens und ich haben in dem Artikel gängige (Fehl-)Annahmen in der klinischen Praxis im Zusammenhang mit der
Dissoziativen Identitätsstörung (#DIS) aus Sicht der Wissenschaft näher beleuchtet. Ein Thread 🧵: 1/

🚨Rituelle Gewalt - Realität oder Fiktion?🚨:
@tkaiser.science, Rafaële Huntjens, Renate Volbert und ich haben im neuen PTJ das Thema organisierte Kriminalität & Rituelle Gewalt unter wissenschaftlicher Lupe näher beleuchtet.🔎
Hier ist der Volltext🗞️👇🏻:
www.psychotherapeutenjournal.de/2025/2/ptj20...

You know you are old when your former PhD student gives a Keynote at your favorite conference. I very much enjoy the amazing talk by @danielamier.bsky.social on social cognition in schizophrenia at #PuG2025

Pro tip, folks: if you make a figure for a publication, don’t just hand the copyright over to the publisher. Post it on OSF first and then give yourself permission to use it in the first publication and then all future publications. That way, no permissions issues.

YouTube video by Jon Stone Inside FND

"Inside FND" - a new short film about FND

A film that draws on evidence from patients, clinicians and research to counter common misconceptions about Functional Neurological Disorder (FND). 🧵
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDAv...

Keep Cognitive Psychology WEIRD Back in 2010, Joe Henrich, Steve Heine, and Ara Norenzayan dropped a bomb[1] on psychology with their paper "The WEIRDest people in the world?" They argued that most psychology studies rely on Western...

Fish see visual illusions the same way humans do. Flies too. And bees. This changes everything about the WEIRD sampling debate in cognitive psychology. New post on @dorsaamir.bsky.social and @chazfirestone.bsky.social's devastating paper.

People have a hard time accurately recalling how depressed, anxious or stressed they felt in the past @apajournals.bsky.social #JARMAC doi.org/10.1037/mac0...

Frontiers | Simpson's paradox in psychological science: a practical guide The direction of an association at the population-level may be reversed within the subgroups comprising that population—a striking observation called Simpson...

This might be useful? Focuses on risk in the other direction (assuming subgroup/individual effects from full population effects) but the points also apply to looking at only one subgroup (e.g., clinical) and making inferences about the population. www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...

Eva-Lotta Brakemeier: "Bald droht die Welle über uns zu brechen" Psychologie studieren ist beliebt. Doch Absolventen fehlen die Psychotherapie-Weiterbildungsplätze. Eva-Lotta Brakemeier warnt vor einem gravierenden Versorgungsdefizit.

Die Psychotherapie-Weiterbildung in Deutschland ist immer noch nicht finanziert!
Wichtiges Interview mit @evalottabrakemeier.bsky.social, Präsidentin der @dgps.bsky.social in der @zeit.de
www.zeit.de/2025/20/eva-...

Why do scientists disagree? With the amazing @justinsulik.bsky.social, NakWon Rim, Elizabeth Pontikes, and @glupyan.bsky.social , we show in @naturehumbehav.bsky.social how cognitive traits and dispositions align with persistent scientific divides (www.nature.com/articles/s41...).

“The first person you should be careful not to fool is yourself. Because you are the easiest person to fool".”

The crucial value of exploratory research » Eiko Fried Exploratory research is vital for discovery, but often undervalued. Here I argue it is key to scientific progress & needs defending.

New interview on the value of exploratory research.

"My brief explanation of this crisis is that researchers didn't say ‘I found something interesting’, but ‘I found exactly what my fantastic theory had predicted, heureka’.
And then they gave a TED talk."

#PsychSciSky #AcademicSky 🧪

Tobias Teismann desillusioniert uns hinsichtlich der Validität unserer Risikoeinschätzung für suizidales Verhalten. Hervorragender State of the Art Vortrag zur Psychotherapie suizidales Verhaltens beim @dpk-kongress.bsky.social . #DPK2025.

French scientist denied US entry after phone messages critical of Trump found France’s research minister said the scientist was traveling to Houston for a conference when his phone was searched

Französischer Wissenschaftler wird an Einreise in die USA gehindert, weil auf seinem Handy Trump-feindliche Botschaften waren. Die USA sind nicht mehr Teil der freien Welt.
Keine wissenschaftlichen Konferenzen mehr in den USA! Kooperiert mit euren US-KollegInnen, um Konferenzen in die EU zu holen!

Wir gratulieren sehr herzlich: Deutscher Psychologie Preis 2025 für Silvia Schneider & @gerhardreese.bsky.social! Forschung zur Verbesserung der Lebensbedingungen junger Menschen - Psychische Gesundheit & Umweltschutz als Schlüssel für die Zukunft. 🌍 Mehr Infos hier 👉 deutscher-psychologie-preis.de

#40: Thorsten Padberg über Depressionen und Psychopharmaka Die gute Gesellschaft · Episode

„Wir glauben, wir würden über Psychologie reden. Das stimmt nicht. Wir reden unglaublich gern über Symptome und deren biologische Grundlage. In Wahrheit sprechen wir fast nie über Psychologie.”

Bei die "Die gute Gesellschaft" sprechen wir über mentale Gesundheit.

open.spotify.com/episode/7lFx...

Watch angry exchange between Trump and Zelensky at White House The US president accused the Ukrainian leader of being disrespectful in a tense meeting in the Oval Office.

The leader of the free world & his deputy bullying, shouting & finger pointing at President Zelenskyy. “You haven’t said thanks”. Truly abhorrent (& embarrassing).

Time for Europe to raise their game!

www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

#standwithukraine

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Always on your side. Whatever it takes.

Seit Monaten frage ich: Was muss noch passieren, damit deutsche Politik aufhört, bei X zu posten? Ausgerechnet dort kritisch zu den Ereignissen in den USA Stellung zu nehmen & der Ukraine Solidarität zuzusichern ist an Absurdität kaum zu überbieten. X nützt Musk & damit auch Trump & Co., remember?

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Explicitly unbiased large language models still form biased associations
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Der DGVT-Kongress rückt näher – haben Sie Ihre Veranstaltungsfavoriten schon vorgemerkt? Schauen Sie gern noch einmal in unser hochkarätiges Veranstaltungsprogramm – es lohnt sich: www.dgvt-kongress.de/programm

DGVT-Kongress 2025 vom 19.03.–22.03.2025 in Berlin
#dgvtkongress

When and How to Deviate From a Preregistration As the practice of preregistration becomes more common, researchers need guidance in how to report deviations from their preregistered statistical analysis plan. A principled approach to the use of pr...

Have this conversation a lot with folks. It is okay to deviate from your prereg, but you must be transparent about what changed and how this impacts the severity of your tests, if at all. Excellent article from @lakens.bsky.social! There are some goodies in here.

online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art...

Wish there was an omnibus self-report measure of the HiTOP model? There is one! www.hitop-system.org/measurement-...

And now there’s a really thorough psychometric evaluation of it led by @jananmost.bsky.social 👇👇👇👇

Aus aktuellem Anlass: Nie wieder dürfen Menschen in diesem Land auf Grund Ihrer Herkunft, Religion, psychischen und körperlichen Gesundheit oder Konstitution sowie anderer persönlicher Merkmale diskriminiert, ausgegrenzt, bedroht oder verfolgt werden. (1/2)

Ultimately, we think these data suggest the Müller-Lyer illusion is not a cultural creation after all. To dig deeper into our claims & what they mean for culture's influence on vision more broadly, check out our preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps... (12/13)