Michael Witthöft

One Or Many Environmental Intolerance(s)? A Cluster Analysis Over Two Representative Samples
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A longitudinal bifactor approach to modelling somatic symptom development in psychosomatic treatment

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Illustration einer Hand, die eine blau-gelbe Fahne hält. Darunter steht der Text: Dringender Spendenaufruf des Rektorats.

Ein eindringlicher Hilferuf unserer ukrainischen Partneruniversität, der Staatlichen Taras-Schewtschenko-Universität in Kyiv, hat uns erreicht.

Unser Rektorat bittet um Spenden, um in dieser akuten Notsituation schnell und konkret zu helfen.

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Interview and self-report measures of personality disorder criteria are not structurally equivalent. psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/...

🧠💡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...

Sometimes, doing research feels truly fulfilling. Working on this paper was one of those moments. doi.org/10.1037/ccp0...

Prevalence of self-reported sensitivities to various environmental factors in Germany, Sweden, and Finland based on multiple classification criteria
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The @springernature.com book "The Bodily Self, Emotion, and Subjective Time: Exploring Interoception through the Contributions of A.D. (Bud) Craig" is out: 22 authors, 16 chapters. Neurobiology, Psychology, Psychiatry, Neuroimaging, Musicology, Philosophy, ... link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Verlängerung für zwei Bochumer Sonderforschungsbereiche Plasmaforschung und Extinktionslernen: Beide Sonderforschungsbereiche starten in ihre jeweils dritte Förderphase.

Zwei Bochumer Sonderforschungsbereiche gehen in die jeweils dritte Förderphase: Es geht um Plasmaforschung und ums Extinktionslernen, also einmal Gelerntes wieder loszuwerden.

Physical Activity Decreases Somatic Symptom Distress in the Affect and Symptom Paradigm
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Support for Predictive Processing Assumptions on Health Anxiety: Imprecise Expectations on the Origin of Somatic Symptoms Increase Health Anxiety
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Neue Studie zur Wirksamkeit ambulanter #Psychotherapie mit digitalem Therapiebegleiter bei chronischen Körperbeschwerden 👉 https://presse.uni-mainz.de/neue-behandlungsstudie-untersucht-kombination-aus-analoger-und-digitaler-psychotherapie-fuer-menschen-mit-chronischen-koerperbeschwerden/

Symptoms associated with environmental factors are positively related to sensory-processing sensitivity Symptoms associated with environmental factors (SAEFs) are conditions characterized by chronic somatic symptom distress and impaired everyday function…

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Gestern haben über 1300 Menschen für die Finanzierung der Psychotherapie-Weiterbildung demonstriert, davon 600 in Köln, 500 in Bochum und 200 in Marburg. Gemeinsam haben wir deutlich gemacht, dass es JETZT gesetzliche Regelungen zur Finanzierung der Weiterbildung benötigt.

TIL that Dale invented the heartbeat counting task, not Schandry, and that it was known from the very first study that people underestimated their heart rate. It was orginally called a heart rate estimation task! journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.2...

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🗞️👇🏻:
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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). 🧵
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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
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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".”