Tobias Kube
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.
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- 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...
- 📢Join us for the 2026 Autobiographical Processing & Psychopathology Conference next June! #APP2026🎉 ⏰1-month to go until submission deadline - submit your abstracts by 5pm, 15th Jan 2026! 🚨Abstracts for our two invited keynote addresses now available in our latest newsletter: tinyurl.com/2r8r24dt
- 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/....
- 🎉 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...
- 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! 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/...
- 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...
- 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 KubeNew 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...
- 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 👇 jobs.zeit.de/jobs/profess...
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- Key findings: 1) the greater the expectation-outcome discrepancy, the greater the update; 2) in the entire (non-clinical) sample greater update for positive expectation-outcome discrepancies than for negative ones; 3) depressive symptoms related to more neg updating following neg social experiences
- 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 👇.
- 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....
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- 🥳🎉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.
- 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...
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- 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. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
