Education
| 2008 | Clinical Psychologist (Professional training in cognitive-behavioural psychotherapy 2002 – 2008 at the Centre for Psychological Psychotherapy, University of Heidelberg, Germany) |
| 2007 | Doctor Rerum Socialium (equivalent to Ph.D.), Summa Cum Laude, Psychology, University of Mannheim, Germany (Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Josef Bailer, Prof. Dr. Fred Rist, and Prof. Dr. Werner W. Wittmann) Thesis: Attentional Bias, Memory Bias, and Symptom Attribution in Idiopathic Environmental Intolerance and Classical Somatoform Disorders |
| 2001 | Diploma in Psychology, University of Mannheim, Germany (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Heinz-Martin Süß). Thesis: Inhibitory control – An explanatory construct for cognitive aging effects? |
| 2001 | Research Assistant "Attention and Working Memory Lab", School of Psychology, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta GA, USA (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Randall Engle) |
| 1997–2010 | Research Assistant in a project on Working Memory Capacity and Intelligence, University of Mannheim, Germany |
Academic and Clinical Positions
| Since 2014 | Professor of Clinical Psychology, University of Mainz, Germany |
| 2013-2014 | Visiting Professor of Health Psychology, University of Mannheim, Germany |
| 2008-2013 | Post-doctoral research fellow at the Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany (Head of department: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hiller) |
| 2011-2012 | Visiting Researcher at the Institute of Psychiatry, Department of Psychological Medicine, King's College, London, UK (Supervisor: Dr. James Rubin; Head of department: Prof. Dr. Simon Wessely) |
| 2006-2008 | Psychotherapist in the Mannheim Social Phobia Study (SOPHISMA; Supervisor: Dr. Regina Steil) |
| 2002-2007 | Research assistant at the Department of Clinical Psychology at the Central Institute of Mental Health in Mannheim, Germany (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Josef Bailer) |
| 2001-2002 | Lectureship in Experimental Psychology at the Department of General Psychology and Methodology, University of Basel, Switzerland (Head of department: Prof. Dr. Klaus Opwis) |
Awards
| 2018 | Excellent teaching award of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany |
| 2018 | Excellent teaching award of the Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany |
| 2012 | Research Award of the German Association for Behaviour Therapy (DGVT) |
| 2012 | Poster among the Top 11 Poster Selection at the 12th International Congress of Behavioral Medicine, Budapest, Hungary. Poster: How Many Types of Medically Unexplained Symptoms: one or Many, or Both at the Same Time? A Bifactor Approach to the Latent Structure of Somatic Symptoms |
| 2010 | Poster Award (Poster among the Top 15) at the 11th International Congress of Behavioral Medicine, Washington, USA. Poster: How quick can you forget “tumor”? Health anxiety and the ability to remove illness related information from working memory |
| 2006 | Best Young Scientist Award of the Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy Division of the German Psychological Society (DGPs) |
Professional Affiliations
- Association for Psychological Science (APS)
- German Psychological Society (DGPs; Section Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy)
- German Society for Behavioural Medicine (DGVM)
- German Association for Behaviour Therapy (DGVT)
Research Interests
- Experimental assessment of interoception
- Relations between interoception, somatic symptom perception, and emotion regulation
- Processes of emotion regulation and their relationship to mental disorders
- The affective role of mental imagery in psychopathology
- Experimental assessment of attention allocation and cognitive-emotional processing
- Assessment of cognitive biases in psychopathology
- Social intelligence
- Structural equation modelling
- Psychotherapy Research
- Somatoform disorders
- Functional somatic syndromes
- Tactile information processing
Publications
2020/In Press
Jungmann, S. M. & Witthöft, M. (in press). Mythen der Klinischen Psychologie und Psychotherapie: Entwicklung und Erprobung eines Fragebogens zur standardisierten Erfassung. Verhaltenstherapie.
Klan, T., Bräscher, A.-K., Vales, A., Liesering-Latta, E., Witthöft, M. & Gaul, C. (in press). Determination of psychosocial factors in cluster headache – construction and psychometric properties of the Cluster Headache Scales (CHS). Cephalalgia.
Jungmann, S. M. & Witthöft, M. (in press). Medically unexplained symptoms in children and adolescents: Illness-related self-concept and parental symptom evaluations. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry.
Haanes, J. V., Nordin, S., Hillert, L., Witthöft, M., van Kamp, I., van Thriel, C. & Van den Bergh O. (2020)."Symptoms associated with environmental factors" (SAEF) - Towards a paradigm shift regarding "idiopathic environmental intolerance" and related phenomena. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 131, 109955. Full text
Witthöft, M., Bräscher, A.-K., Jungmann, S. M., & Köteles, F. (in press). Somatic Symptom Perception and Interoception – A Latent-Variable Approach. Zeitschrift für Psychologie.
Caroli, A., Klan, T., Gaul, C., Liesering-Latta, E., Martin, P. R. & Witthöft M. (in press). Die Erfassung von Triggerempfindlichkeit und -vermeidung bei primären Kopfschmerzen – Entwicklung und psychometrische Erprobung einer deutschen Version des Headache Triggers Sensitivity and Avoidance Questionnaire (HTSAQ-G). Verhaltenstherapie.
Welsch, R., Legenbauer, T., Kolar, D., Witthöft, M. & Hecht, H. (in press). Body image avoidance affects interpersonal distance perception: a virtual environment experiment. European Eating Disorders Review.
Jungmann, S. M., Brand, S., Kolb, J. & Witthöft, M. (in press). Do Dr. Google and Health Apps Have (Comparable) Side Effects? An Experimental Study. Clinical Psychological Science.
Sauer, K. S. & Witthöft, M. (in press). Krankheitsängste und Hypochondrische Störung. PSYCH up2date.
2019
Bräscher, A.-K. & Witthöft, M. (2019). Behavioral and electrodermal data on implicit nocebo conditioning using supraliminally presented visual stimuli. Data in Brief, 104705.
Dömötör, Z., Nordin, S., Witthöft, M. & Köteles, F. (2019). Modern health worries: A systematic review. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 109781.
Okur-Güney, Z. E., Sattel, H., Witthöft, M. & Henningsen, P. (2019). Emotion regulation in patients with somatic symptom and related disorders: A qualitative systematic review. PLoS ONE, 14(6), e0217277.
Bräscher, A.-K. & Witthöft, M. (2019). Nocebo hyperalgesia induced by implicit conditioning. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 64, 106-112.
Junga, Y. M., Witthöft, M., Weck, F. (2019). Assessing therapist development: Reliability and validity of the Supervisee Levels Questionnaire (SLQ‐R). Journal of Clinical Psychology, 75, 1658-1672.
Olaru, G., Wilhelm, O., Petrie, K., Nordin, S., Witthöft M.* & Köteles, F.* (2019). Modern health worries – Development of a short version and measurement invariance across four European countries. PLoS ONE 12(10): e0185802. (*shared senior authors).
Klan, T., Liesering-Latta, E., Gaul, C., Martin, P., Witthöft M. & Hiller, W. (2019). An Integrative Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Program for Adults with Migraine: A Pilot Feasibility Study. Headache, 59, 741-756.
Eikeseth, F. F., Denninghaus, S., Cropley, M., Witthöft, M., Sütterlin, S. & Pawelzik, M. (2019). Cortisol Awakening Response at Intake Predicts Severeness after Discharge in MDD Patients. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 111, 44-50.
Meyerholz, L., Irzinger, J., Witthöft, M., Gerlach, A. L. & Pohl, P. (2019). Contingent biofeedback outperforms other methods to enhance the accuracy of cardiac interoception: A comparison of short interventions. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry. 63, 12-20.
Yan, Z.*, Witthöft, M.*, Bailer, J., Diener, C. & Mier, D. (2019). Scary Symptoms? Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Evidence for Symptom Interpretation Bias in Pathological Health Anxiety. European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience, 269, 195-207.
(* shared first authors)
Maiwald, L. M., Kaufmann, Y. M., Lang, T., Montini, R., Witthöft, M. & Weck, F. (2019). The Role of Therapist and Patient In-Session Behavior for Treatment Outcome in Exposure-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Panic Disorder with Agoraphobia. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 75, 614-626.
Hennemann, S., Klan T. & Witthöft, M. (2019). Aufmerksamkeitslenkung in der Verhaltenstherapie. Verhaltenstherapie, 29, 28-38.
2018
Hennemann, S., Böhme, K., Baumeister, H., Kleinstäuber, M., Ebert, D. D. & Witthöft, M. (2018). Efficacy of a guided Internet-based intervention (iSOMA) for somatic symptoms and related distress in university students: study protocol of a randomized controlled trial. BMJ Open, 8, e024929.
Velten, J., Bräscher, A.-K., Fehm, L., Fladung, A., Fydrich, T., Heider, J., Limberg-Thiesen, A., Lutz, W., Margraf, J., Schöttke, H., Witthöft, M. & Hoyer, J. (2018). Behandlungsdiagnosen in universitären Ambulanzen für psychologische Psychotherapie im Jahr 2016. Ergebnisse einer Machbarkeitsstudie zum KODAP-Projekt. Zeitschrift für Klinische Psychologie und Psychotherapie, 47, 175-185.
Gropalis, M., Bailer, J., Weck, F. & Witthöft, M. (2018). Optimierung von Expositionstherapie bei Pathologischen Krankheitsängsten mit Hilfe des Inhibitory-Learning-Ansatzes. Psychotherapeut, 63, 188-193.
Bräscher, A.-K., Witthöft, M. & Becker, S. (2018). Topical review: The underestimated significance of conditioning in placebo hypoalgesia and nocebo hyperalgesia. Pain Research and Management, 2018. doi.org/10.1155/2018/6841985
Grammes, J., Schaefer, M., Benecke, A., Löw, U., Klostermann, A.-L., Kubiak, T. & Witthöft, M. (2018). Interoceptive accuracy and fear of hypoglycemia in people with type 2 diabetes mellitus. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 105, 58-63.
Hennemann, S., Witthöft, M. , Bethge, M., Spanier, K., Beutel, M. E. & Zwerenz, R. (2018). Acceptance and barriers to access of occupational e-mental health: cross-sectional findings from a health-risk population of employees. International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health, 91, 305-316.
Gropalis, M., Witthöft, M. , Bailer, J., Weck, F. (2018). Optimizing Exposure Therapy for Pathological Health Anxiety: Considerations from the Inhibitory Learning Approach. Cognitive and Behavioral Practice, 25, 250-260.
Walentynowicz, M.., Witthöft, M. , Raes, F., Van Diest, I., & Van den Bergh, O. (2018). Sensory and affective components of symptom perception: A psychometric approach. Journal of Experimental Psychopathology, 9, 1-13.
Becker, S., Witthöft, M. & Klan, T. (2018). Überzeugungen von Therapeuten hinsichtlich Exposition – Entwicklung einer deutschen Version der Therapist Beliefs about Exposure Scale (TBES-G) [German Adaption of the Therapist Beliefs about Exposure Scale (TBES-G)]. Verhaltenstherapie, 28, 147-156.
Witthöft, M. , Freitag, I., Nußbaum, C., Bailer, J., Jasper, F., & Rubin, G. J. (2018). On the origin of worries about modern health hazards: Experimental evidence for a conjoint influence of media reports and personality traits. Psychology & Health, 33, 361-380.
2017
De Rubeis, J., Lugo, R. G., Witthöft, M. , Sütterlin, S., Pawelzik, M., & Vögele, C. (2017). Rejection Sensitivity as a Vulnerability Marker for Depressive Symptom Deterioration in Men. PLoS ONE 12(10) : e0185802.
Köteles, F., & Witthöft, M. (2017). Somatosensory amplification – An old construct from a new perspective. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 101, 1-9.
Sauer, K. S. & Witthöft, M. (2017). Emotionserleben und somatische Beschwerden – der Effekt einer Induktion von Ärger und Traurigkeit auf den körperlichen Symptombericht. Zeitschrift für Klinische Psychologie und Psychotherapie, 46, 147-156.
Weck, F., Kaufmann, Y., & Witthöft, M. (2017). Topics and Techniques in Clinical Supervision in Psychotherapy Training. The Cognitive Behaviour Therapist, 10 (e3), 1-17.
Bräscher, A., Raymaekers, K., Van den Bergh, O. & Witthöft, M. (2017). Are media reports able to cause somatic symptoms attributed to WiFi radiation? An experimental test of the negative expectation hypothesis. Environmental Research, 156, 265-271.
Bailer, J., Witthöft, M. , Erkic, M., & Mier, D. (2017). Emotion dysregulation in hypochondriasis and depression. Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy, 24, 1254-1262.
Weck, F., & Witthöft, M. (2017). Context Effects in the Evaluation of Bodily Symptoms: Comparing three Versions of the Health Norms Sorting Task. Journal of Experimental Psychopathology, 8, 241-251.
Zamoscik, V., Niemeyer, C., Gerchen, M. F., Fenske, S. C., Witthöft, M. & Kirsch, P. (2017). Sensorik Inventar (SI) – Selbstbeurteilung der sensorischen Sensitivität für Erwachsene und Jugendliche / Sensory Inventory (SI) - self-assessment of sensory sensitivity for adults and adolescents. Fortschritte der Neurologie – Psychiatrie, 85, 541-551.
Van den Bergh, O., Petersen, S., Brown, R., & Witthöft, M. (2017). Idiopathic Environmental Intolerance: A symptom perception account. Clinical Psychological Science, 5, 551-567.
Van den Bergh, O., Witthöft, M. , Petersen, S., & Brown, R. (2017). Symptoms and the body: Taking the inferential leap. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 74, 185-203.
Mier, D., Bailer, J., Ofer, J., Kerstner, T., Zamoscik, V., Rist, F., Witthöft, M. , Diener, C. (2017). Neural correlates of an attentional bias to health-threatening stimuli in pathological health anxiety. Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, 42, 200-209.
Harbort, J., Spiegel, J., Witthöft, M. , & Hecht, H. (2017). The Effects of Social Pressure and Emotional Expression on the Cone of Gaze in Patients with Social Anxiety Disorder. Emotion. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 55, 16-24.
Eggert, L., Kleinstäuber, M., Hiller, W., Witthöft, M. (2017). Emotional interference and attentional processing in premenstrual syndrome. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 54, 77-87.
2016
Krautwurst, S., Gerlach, A. L., & Witthöft. M. (2016). Interoception in Pathological Health Anxiety. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 125, 1179-1184.
Jungmann, S., Loch, N., Selby, E., Witthöft, M. (2016). Understanding dysregulated behaviors and compulsions: An extension of the emotional cascade model and the mediating role of intrusive thoughts. Frontiers in Psychology, 7, 994.
Eggert, L., Witthöft, M. , Hiller, W., & Kleinstäuber, M. (2016). Emotion regulation in women with premenstrual syndrome (PMS): Explicit and implicit assessments. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 40, 747-763.
Potthoff, S., Garnefski, N., Miklósi, M., Ubbiali, A., Dominguez-Sánchez, F. J., Martins, E. C., Witthöft, M. , and Kraaij, V. (2016). Cognitive Emotion Regulation and psychopathology across cultures: a comparison between six European countries. Personality and Individual Differences, 98, 218-224.
Mier, D., Witthöft, M. , Bailer, J., Ofer, J., Kerstner, T., Rist, F., Diener, C. (2016). Cough is Dangerous: Neural Correlates of Implicit Body Symptoms Associations. Frontiers in Psychology, 7, 247.
Van Oudenhove, L., Jasper, F., Walentynowicz, M., Witthöft, M. , Van den Bergh, O., & Tack, J. (2016). The latent structure of the functional dyspepsia symptom complex: A taxometric analysis. Neurogastroenterology & Motility, 28, 985-993.
Schreiber, F., Witthöft, M. , Neng, J. M., & Weck, F. (2016). Changes in negative implicit evaluations in patients of hypochondriasis after treatment with cognitive therapy or exposure therapy. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 50, 139-146.
Schwind, J., Witthöft, M. , Gropalis, M., & Weck, F. (2016). The effects of attention training on health anxiety: An experimental investigation. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 40, 245-255.
Witthöft, M. , Kerstner, T., Ofer, J., Mier, D., Rist, F., Diener, C., & Bailer, J. (2016). Cognitive Biases in Pathological Health Anxiety: The Contribution of Attention, Memory, and Evaluation Processes. Clinical Psychological Science, 4, 464-479.
Bailer, J., Kerstner, T., Witthöft, M. , Diener, C., Mier, D., & Rist, F. (2016). Health anxiety and hypochondriasis in the light of DSM-5. Anxiety, Stress, and Coping, 29(2), 219-239.
Witthöft, M. , Fischer, S., Jasper, F., Rist, F., & Nater, U. M. (2016). Clarifying the Latent Structure and Correlates of Somatic Symptom Distress: A Bifactor Model Approach. Psychological Assessment, 28(1), 109-115.
Görgen, S. M., Hiller, W. & Witthöft, M. (2016). Die Spontaneous Use of Imagery Scale (SUIS) – Entwicklung und teststatistische Prüfung einer deutschen Adaption [The Spontaneous Use of Imagery Scale (SUIS) – Development and psychometric evaluation of a German adaptation]. Diagnostica, 62(1), 31-43.
2015
Görgen, S. M., Loch, N., Hiller, W., & Witthöft, M. (2015). Kognitive Emotionsregulation und Psychopathologie: Erste teststatistische Untersuchung des Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (CERQ) in einer klinischen Stichprobe. Zeitschrift für Psychiatrie, Psychologie und Psychotherapie, 63(4), 255-265.
Olaru, G., Witthöft, M. , & Wilhelm, O. (2015). Methods Matter: Testing Competing Models for Designing Short-scale Big-Five Assessments. Journal of Research in Personality, 59, 56-68.
Witthöft, M. , Weck, F. & Gropalis, M. (2015). The Multidimensional Inventory of Hypochondriacal Traits: Factor Structure, Specificity, Reliability, and Validity in Patients With Hypochondriasis. Assessment, 22(3), 361-373.
Bailer, J., Kerstner, T., Mier, D., Rist, F., Diener, C., Bleichhard, G., & Witthöft, M. (2015). Elektronische Tagebücher optimieren die Kognitive Verhaltenstherapie bei Krankheitsängsten: Eine randomisiert-kontrollierte Studie. Zeitschrift für Psychiatrie, Psychologie und Psychotherapie, 63(3), 197-206.
Kerstner, T., Witthöft, M. , Mier, D., Diener, C., Rist, F. & Bailer, J. (2015). A diary-based modification of symptom attributions in pathological health anxiety: Effects on symptom report and cognitive biases. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 83(3), 578-589.
Görgen, S. M., Joormann, J., Hiller, W., & Witthöft, M. (2015). The Role of Mental Imagery in Depression: Negative Mental Imagery Induces Strong Implicit and Explicit Affect in Depression. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 6, 94.
Görgen, S. M., Joormann, J., Hiller, W. & Witthöft, M. (2015). Implicit and Explicit Affect after Mental Imagery: Relation to Depression. Journal of Experimental Psychopathology, 6, 59-81.
Jasper, F., Hiller, W., Berking, M., Rommel, T. & Witthöft, M. (2015). The affective response to health-related information and its relationship to health anxiety: An ambulatory approach. Cognition and Emotion, 29(4), 714-722.
Witthöft, M. , Borgmann, E., White, A. & Dyer, A. (2015). Body-related attentional biases in patients with posttraumatic stress disorder resulting from childhood sexual abuse with and without co-occurring borderline personality disorder. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 46, 72-77.
Jasper, F., Egloff, B., Roalfe, A. & Witthöft, M. (2015). Latent structure of irritable bowel syndrome symptom severity. World Journal of Gastroenterology, 21, 292-300.
2014
Schreiber, F., Neng, J. M., Heimlich, C., Witthöft, M. & Weck, F. (2014). Implicit affective evaluation bias in hypochondriasis: findings from the Affect Misattribution Procedure. Journal of Anxiety Disorder, 28, 671-678.
Kleinstäuber, M., Witthöft, M. , Steffanowski, A., van Marwijk, H., Hiller, W. & Lambert, M. J. (2014). Pharmacological interventions for somatoform disorders in adults. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 11.
Schaefer, M., Egloff, B., Gerlach, A. L. & Witthöft, M. (2014). Improving heartbeat perception in patients with medically unexplained symptoms reduces symptom distress. Biological Psychology, 101, 69-76.
Krautwurst, S., Gerlach, A. L., Hiller, W. & Witthöft, M. (2014). Health Anxiety - An Indicator of Higher Interoceptive Sensitivity? Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 45, 303-309.
Bailer, J., Witthöft, M. , Wagner, H., Mier, D., Diener, C. & Rist, F. (2014). Childhood maltreatment is associated with depression but not with hypochondriasis in later life. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 77, 104-108.
Riebel, K., Egloff, B. & Witthöft, M. (2014). Modifying the implicit illness-related self-concept in patients with somatoform disorders may reduce somatic symptoms. International Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 21, 861-868.
Görgen, S., Hiller, W., & Witthöft, M. (2014). Health anxiety, cognitive coping, and emotion regulation: A latent variable approach. International Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 21, 364-374.
2013
Gropalis, M. & Witthöft, M. (2013). Kognitive Verhaltenstherapie bei Hypochondrie und Krankheitsängsten - Kritische Reflexion anhand einer Kasuistik. Psychotherapeut, 58, 569-575.
Martin, A. & Witthöft, M. (2013). Krankheitsangst und Hypochondrie: Aktuelle Entwicklungen in Nosologie, Diagnostik, Modellbildung und Therapie. Psychotherapeut, 58, 529-530.
Schmidt, E., Witthöft, M. , Kornadt, A., Rist, F. & Bailer, J. (2013). Negative automatic evaluation and better recognition of bodily symptom words in college students with elevated health anxiety. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 37, 1027-1040.
Witthöft, M. , Loch, N. & Jasper, F. (2013). Somatoforme Beschwerden und Stile der Emotionsregulation. Verhaltenstherapie & Verhaltensmedizin. 34, 444-464.
Bailer, J., Rist, F., Müller, T., Mier, D., Diener, C., Ofer, J., Fenske, S. & Witthöft, M. (2013). Erfassung von Krankheitsangst mit dem Short Health Anxiety Inventory (SHAI). Verhaltenstherapie & Verhaltensmedizin, 34, 378-398.
Weck, F., Gropalis, M., Neng, J. M. B., & Witthöft, M. (2013). The German version of the H-YBOCS for the assessment of hypochondriacal cognitions and behaviors: development, reliability and validity. International Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 20, 618-626.
Bailer, J., Müller, T., Witthöft, M. , Diener, C., Mier, D., Ofer, J. & Rist, F. (2013). Symptomattributionsstile bei Hypochondrie. Psychotherapeut, 58, 552-559.
Harbort, J., Witthöft, M. , Spiegel, J., Nick, K. & Hecht, H. (2013). The widening of the gaze cone in patients with social anxiety disorder and its normalization after CBT. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 51, 359-367.
Jasper, F., Nater, U., Hiller, W., Ehlert, U., Fischer, S., & Witthöft, M. (2013). Rasch Scalability of the Somatosensory Amplification Scale: A Mixture Distribution Approach. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 74, 469-478.
Riebel, K., Egloff, B., & Witthöft, M. (2013). The implicit health-related self-concept in somatoform disorders. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 44, 335-342.
Schindler, A., Hiller, W., & Witthöft, M. (2013). What predicts outcome, response, and dropout in CBT of depressive Adults? A naturalistic study. Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, 41, 365-370.
Witthöft, M. , Hiller, W., Loch, N., & Jasper, F. (2013). The latent structure of medically unexplained symptoms and its relation to functional somatic syndromes. International Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 20, 172-183.
Gropalis, M., Bleichhardt, G., Hiller, W., & Witthöft, M. (2013). Specificity and modifiability of cognitive biases in hypochondriasis. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 81, 558-565.
Jasper, F., & Witthöft, M. (2013). Automatic evaluative processes in health anxiety and their relations to emotion regulation. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 37, 521-533.
Witthöft, M. , & Rubin, G. J. (2013). Are media warnings about the adverse health effects of modern life self-fulfilling? An experimental study on idiopathic environmental intolerance attributed to electromagnetic fields (IEI-EMF). Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 74, 206-212.
Witthöft, M. , Mier, D., Ofer, J., Müller, T., Rist, F., Kirsch, P., Bailer, J., & Diener, C. (2013). Neuronal and behavioral correlates of health anxiety: Results of an illness related emotional Stroop task. Neuropsychobiology, 67, 93-102.
2012
Witthöft, M. , Basfeld, C., Steinhoff, M., & Gerlach, A. L. (2012). Can’t suppress this feeling: Automatic negative evaluations of somatosensory stimuli are related to the experience of somatic symptom distress. Emotion, 12, 640-649.
Gropalis, M., Bleichhardt, G., Witthöft, M. , & Hiller, W. (2012). Hypochondriasis, somatoform disorders, and the anxiety disorders: Sociodemographic variables, general psychopathology and naturalistic treatment effects. The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 200, 406-412.
Jasper, F., Hiller, W., Rist, F., Bailer, J., & Witthöft, M. (2012). Somatic symptom reporting has a dimensional latent structure: Results from taxometric analyses. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 121, 725-738.
Schaefer, M., Egloff, B., & Witthöft, M. (2012). Is interoceptive awareness really altered in somatoform disorders? Testing competing theories with two paradigms of heartbeat perception. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 121, 719-724.
Kleinstäuber, M., Witthöft, M. , & Hiller, W. (2012). Cognitive-behavioral and pharmacological interventions for premenstrual syndrome or premenstrual dysphoric disorder: a meta-analysis. Journal of Clinical Psychology in Medical Settings, 19, 308-319.
Katzer, A., Oberfeld, D., Hiller, W., Gerlach, A., & Witthöft, M. (2012). Tactile perceptual processes and their relationship to somatoform disorders. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 121, 530-543.
2011
Jasper, F., & Witthöft, M. (2011). Health Anxiety and Attentional Bias: The time course of vigilance and avoidance in light of pictorial illness information. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 25, 1131-1138.
Schindler, A., Hiller, W., & Witthöft, M. (2011). Benchmarking of cognitive-behavioral therapy for depression in efficacy and effectiveness studies - How do exclusion criteria affect treatment outcome? Psychotherapy Research, 21, 644-657.
Katzer, A., Hiller, W., Oberfeld, D., & Witthöft, M. (2011). Tactile perceptual processes and their relationship to medically unexplained symptoms and health anxiety. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 71, 335-341.
Loch, N., Hiller, W., & Witthöft, M. (2011). The Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (CERQ) – Test of a German adaptation. Zeitschrift für Klinische Psychologie und Psychotherapie, 40, 94-106.
Weck, F., Bleichhardt, G., Witthöft, M. , & Hiller, W. (2011). Explicit and implicit anxiety: Differences between patients with hypochondriasis, patients with anxiety disorders, and healthy controls. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 35, 317-325.
Hampel, S., Weis, S., Hiller, W., & Witthöft, M. (2011). The relations between social anxiety and social intelligence: A latent variable analysis. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 25, 545-553.
Kleinstäuber, M., Witthöft, M. , & Hiller, W. (2011). Efficacy of short-term psychotherapy for multiple medically unexplained physical symptoms: a meta-analysis. Clinical Psychology Review, 31, 146-160.
2010
Witthöft, M. , & Hiller, W. (2010). Psychological approaches to origins and treatments of somatoform disorders. Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, 6, 257-283.
Wilhelm, O., Witthöft, M. , & Schipolowski, S. (2010). Self-reported cognitive failures: competing measurement models and self-report correlates. Journal of Individual Differences, 31, 1-14.
Witthöft, M. , Haaf, A., Rist, F., & Bailer, J. (2010). German validation of the Multidimensional Inventory of Hypochondriacal Traits (MIHT). Diagnostica, 56, 2-12.
2009
Kornadt, A. E., Witthöft, M. , Rist, F., & Bailer, J. (2009). Affekt-modulierte Aufmerksamkeitsprozesse unter Arbeitsgedächtnisbelastung bei Krankheitsangst. Zeitschrift für Klinische Psychologie und Psychotherapie, 38, 194-202.
Gass, P., Martini, M., Witthöft, M. , Bailer, J., & Dreßing, H. (2009). Prevalence of Stalking Victimization in Journalists: An e-mail Survey of German Journalists. Violence and Victims, 24, 163-171.
Witthöft, M. , Sander, N., Süß, H.-M., & Wittmann, W. W. (2009). Adult age differences in inhibitory processes and their predictive validity for fluid intelligence. Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, 16, 133-163.
Witthöft, M. , Rist, F., & Bailer, J. (2009). Abnormalities in cognitive-emotional information processing in idiopathic environmental intolerance and somatoform disorders. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 40, 70-84.
2008
Bailer, J., Schwarz, D., Witthöft, M. , Stübinger, C., & Rist, F. (2008). Prävalenz psychischer Syndrome bei Studierenden einer deutschen Universität. Psychotherapie, Psychosomatik, Medizinische Psychologie, 58, 423-429.
Witthöft, M. , Rist, F., & Bailer, J. (2008). Enhanced early emotional intrusion effects and proportional habituation of threat response for symptom and illness words in college students with elevated health anxiety. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 32, 818-842.
Bailer, J., Witthöft, M. , & Rist, F. (2008). Modern health worries and idiopathic environmental intolerance (IEI). Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 65, 425-433.
Witthöft, M. , Rist, F., & Bailer, J. (2008). Evidence for a specific link between the personality trait of absorption and Idiopathic Environmental Intolerance. Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health, Part A, 71, 795-802.
Bailer, J., Witthöft, M. , & Rist, F. (2008). Psychological predictors of short and medium term outcome in individuals with idiopathic environmental intolerance (IEI) and individuals with somatoform disorders. Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health, Part A, 71, 766-775.
Bailer, J., Bähr, V., Stübinger, C., & Witthöft, M. (2008). Moderne Gesundheitssorgen und ihre Beziehung zu umweltbezogenen Beschwerden. Zeitschrift für Klinische Psychologie und Psychotherapie, 37, 61-69.
2007
Dreßing, H., Martini, M., Witthöft, M. , Bailer, J., & Gass, P. (2007). Berufsrisiko Stalking bei Journalisten – Prävention ist nötig. Gesundheitswesen, 69, 699-703.
Bailer, J., Witthöft, M. , Bayerl, C., & Rist, F. (2007). Trauma experience in individuals with idiopathic environmental intolerance and individuals with somatoform disorders. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 63, 657-661.
Schwarz, D., Witthöft, M. , Rist, F., & Bailer, J. (2007). Überprüfung der Faktorenstruktur und Konstruktvalidität des Whiteley-Index - einem etablierten Screening-Instruments zur Erfassung von Hypochondrie. Zeitschrift für Klinische Psychologie und Psychotherapie, 36, 128-136.
Bailer, J., Witthöft, M. , Bayerl, C., & Rist, F. (2007). Syndrome stability and psychological predictors of symptom severity in idiopathic environmental intolerance and somatoform disorders. Psychological Medicine, 37, 271-281.
2006
Bailer, J., Witthöft, M. , & Rist, F. (2006). The Chemical Odor Sensitivity Scale: Reliability and validity of a screening instrument for idiopathic environmental intolerance. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 61, 71-79.
Witthöft, M. , Gerlach, A., & Bailer, J. (2006). Selective attention, memory bias, and symptom perception in idiopathic environmental intolerance and somatoform disorders. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 115, 397-407.
2005
Bailer, J., Witthöft, M. , Paul, C., Bayerl, C., & Rist, F. (2005). Evidence for overlap between idiopathic environmental intolerance and somatoform disorders. Psychosomatic Medicine, 67, 921-929.
2004
Bailer, J., Rist, F., Witthöft, M. , Paul, C., & Bayerl, C. (2004). Symptom patterns, and perceptual and cognitive styles in subjects with multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS). Journal of Environmental Psychology, 24, 517-525.
Bailer, J., Rist, F., Witthöft, M. , & Paul, C. (2004). Validierung eines Screening-Instruments zur Identifizierung von Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS): Die Chemische Geruchssensitivitätsskala (CGSS). Psychotherapie, Psychosomatik, Medizinische Psychologie, 54, 396-404.