Publications

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Preprints

Döring, A., Zhang, X., Margraf, J., & Woud, M. L. (2024). The Relationship between Distressing Life Events and Positive and Negative Mental Health. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/n76vj
Cwik, J. C., Cludius, B., Bentz, D., Riehle, M., Ehrenthal, J. C., Haberkamp, A., Clamor, A., Blackwell, S. E., Salazar Kämpf, M., Nazarenus, E., Rahal, R.-M., Möllmann, A., Fink-Lamotte, J., Burghardt, J., Boehnke, J. R., & Hilbert, K. (2024). How to approach open science practices for clinical psychology research. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/c7xw8
Kennett, J., Friedrich, C., Chiocchia, V., Blackwell, S. E., Furukawa, T., Carlbring, P., Tonia, T., Homiar, A., Wright, S., Opiepie, K., Mojica, R., Schenk, P., Michie, S., Hastings, J., Dehdarirad, H., Stansfield, C., Thomas, J., Potts, J., Salanti, G., & Cipriani, A. (2024). Cognitive bias modification for social anxiety: Protocol for a living systematic review of human studies and meta-analysis [version 1; peer review: Awaiting peer review]. Wellcome Open Research, 9(657). https://doi.org/10.12688/wellcomeopenres.23278.1
Blackwell, S. E. (2024, September 25). Sequential Analyses using Effect Size Confidence Intervals: A Simulation-Based Approach. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/q3jc6
Naderi Rajeh, Y., Blackwell, S. E., Dolatshahi, B., Pourshahbaz, A., & Zarghami, M. (2024, August 13). Positive Imagery Cognitive Bias Modification for People with Elevated Depression Symptoms: A Pilot Study in Iran. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/e97gz
Blackwell, S. E., Westermann, K., Margraf, J., & Woud, M. L. (2024, July 17). The relationship between vividness of positive future-oriented mental imagery, anhedonia, and positive affect. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/a6chu
Rupietta, A. E., Michael, T., Margraf, J., & Woud, M. L. (2024, June 27). Words and images: The effects of verbalization and imagery on intrusions. https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/ut5am
Duken, S. B., Moriya, J., Hirsch, C., Woud, M. L., Van Bockstaele, B., & Salemink, E. (2024, June 12). Reliability and validity of four cognitive interpretation bias measures in the context of social anxiety. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/t9jbr
Bergunde, L., Woud, M. L., Shkreli, L., Schindler-Gmelch, L., Garthus-Niegel, S., Blackwell, S. E., Kirschbaum, C., Kessler, H., & Steudte-Schmiedgen, S. (2024, May 31). The role of hair endocannabinoid concentrations in clinical symptoms and treatment outcome in female inpatients with posttraumatic stress disorder. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/t7s8b
Shkreli, L., Woud, M. L., Bergunde, L., Schindler-Gmelch, L., Blackwell, S. E., Kirschbaum, C., Kessler, H., & Steudte-Schmiedgen, S. (2024, May 4). The role of long-term hair steroids as diagnostic and intervention-related markers in a multimorbid inpatient sample with posttraumatic stress disorder. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/e7krc
Zoabi, D., Abado, E., Shamay-Tsoory, S., & Peled-Avron, L. (2023). Infectious touching: Has COVID-19 changed our perceptions of social touch? A neural and behavioral study. bioRxiv, 2023-09.‏ doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.09.12.557330
Würtz, F., Kunna, M., Lindgraf, C., Blackwell, S. E., Margraf, J., Everaert, J., & Woud, M. L. (2023). Interpretation Biases in Anxiety – A Three-Level Meta-Analysis. https://osf.io/7zkvr
Bagheri, M., Woud, M. L., Feller, A., Laudi, J., Kirchner, G. D., Schneider, H., Margraf, J., & Blackwell, S. E. (2023, July 12). Investigating the Role of Imagery Vividness in the Experience of Involuntary Memories of Previously-Imagined Positive Scenarios. https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/fkxat
Cwik, J. C., Spies, J. D., Kessler, H., Herpertz, S., Woud, M. L., Blackwell, S. E., … Köhler, K. (2023, May 16). Psychometric properties of the German version of the Clinician-Administered PTSD Scale for DSM-5 (CAPS-5) in routine clinical settings: a multi-trait/multi-method study in civilians and military personnel. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/ah6xv
MacLennan K., Schwannauer M., McLaughlin A. L., Allan, S., Blackwell, S. E., Ashworth, F., & Chan, S. W. Y. (2023, May). Project Soothe: A pilot study evaluating the mood effects of soothing images collected using a citizen science approach [version 2; peer review:1 approved; 2 approved with reservations]. Wellcome Open Research, 8:218. https://doi.org/10.12688/wellcomeopenres.18950.1

Journal articles

in press

Burkhardt, G., Blackwell, S. E., Chen, M., Feldmann, L., Björklund, J., Dechantsreiter, E., Bulubas, L., Goerigk, S., Keeser, D., Falkai, P., Greimel, E., Bechmann, P., Schulte-Körne, G., Hasan, A., Strube, W., & Padberg, F. (in press). Intermittent theta burst stimulation in adolescents and young adults with depressive disorders: Protocol of a randomized, sham-controlled study with a sequential Bayesian design for adaptive trials. European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00406-024-01926-5
Tenschert, D. D., Wilbers, J., Eichelsheim, P., Delbressine, V., Schenkel, E., Custers, J. A. E., Prins, J. B., van de Wouw, Y. A. J., Blijlevens, N. M. A., Loonen, J. J., Tendolkar, I. & Vrijsen, J. N. (in press). Examining the Feasibility of Cognitive Bias Modification for Cancer Patients and Survivors in Three Independent Pilot Studies. Journal of Psychosocial Oncology Research and Practice.
Ji, J. L., Woud, M. L., Rölver, A., Notebaert, L., Todd, J., Clarke, P. J. F., Meeten, F., Margraf, J., & Blackwell, S. E. (in press). Investigating the role of mental imagery use in the assessment of anhedonia. Cognition and Emotion. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2024.2405008
Bagheri, M., Woud, M. L., Simon, J., Abdalla, L., Dombrowe, M., Woinek, C., Margraf, J., & Blackwell, S. E. (in press). Inducing positive involuntary mental imagery in daily life using personalized photograph stimuli. Memory. https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2024.2402920
Kiefer, C., Woud, M. L., Blackwell, S. E., & Mayer, A. (in press). Average treatment effects on binary outcomes with stochastic covariates. British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1111/bmsp.12355
Vrijsen, J. N., Grafton, B., Koster, E. H. W., Lau, J., Wittekind, C. E., Bar-Haim, Y., Becker, E. S., Brotman, M. A., Joormann, J., Lazarov, A., MacLeod, C., Manning, V., Pettit, J. W., Rinck, M., Salemink, E., Woud, M. L., Hallion, L. S., & Wiers, R. W. (in press). Towards implementation of cognitive bias modification in mental health care: State of the science, best practices, and ways forward. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 104557. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2024.104557
Bagheri, M., Woud, M. L., Fachri Oglou, I., Fachri Oglou, F., Ratzkowski, J. D. J., Margraf, J., & Blackwell, S. E. (in press). An Experimental Investigation of the Causal Role of Mental Imagery in the Experience of Involuntary Memories. Journal of Emotion and Psychopathology (view preprint version)

2025

Blackwell, S. E., Rölver, A., Margraf, J., & Woud, M. L. (2025). The Effect of Positive Mental Imagery versus Positive Verbal Thoughts on Anhedonia. Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being, 17: e12626. https://doi.org/10.1111/aphw.12626

2024

Schenkel, E. J., Schöneck, R., Becker, E. S., Wiers, R. W., Lindenmeyer, J., & Rinck, M. (2024). Long-term effects of alcohol-avoidance training: Do changes in approach bias predict who will remain abstinent?. Alcohol, clinical & experimental research, 48(10), 1979–1990. https://doi.org/10.1111/acer.15431
Schenkel, E. J., Rinck, M., Wiers, R. W., Becker, E. S., Muhlig, S., Schoeneck, R., & Lindenmeyer, J. (2024). Implementing Approach-Bias Modification as Add-On to Varieties of Clinical Treatment for Alcohol Use Disorders: Results of a Multicenter RCT. European addiction research, 30(2), 94–102. https://doi.org/10.1159/000537811
Maxwell Watts, J., Blackwell, S.E. & Daniels, J. (2024). Intrusive Mental Imagery in Chronic Pain: Prevalence and Associations with Common Comorbidities. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 48, 910-922. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10608-024-10480-2
Blackwell, S. E. (2024). Using the ‘Leapfrog’ Design as a Simple Form of Adaptive Platform Trial to Develop, Test, and Implement Treatment Personalization Methods in Routine Practice. Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research, 51, 686-701. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10488-023-01340-4
De Nicola, R., Blackwell, S. E., Hirata, E., & Daniels, J. (2024). ‘Knees being set on fire’: a qualitative study exploring the impact of intrusive mental imagery on chronic pain patients. The Cognitive Behaviour Therapist, 17, e19. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1754470X24000187
Abado, E., Aue, T., Pourtois, G., & Okon-Singer, H. (2024). Expectancy and attention bias to spiders: Dissecting anticipation and allocation processes using ERPs. Psychophysiology, 00, e14546. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.14546
Würtz, F., Kube, T., Woud, M. L., Margraf, J., & Blackwell, S. E. (2024). Reduced Belief Updating in the Context of Depressive Symptoms – An Investigation of the Associations with Interpretation Biases and Self-Evaluation. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 48, 225-241. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10608-023-10454-w
Fink-Lamotte, J., Hilbert, K., Bentz, D., Blackwell, S. E., Boehnke, J. R., Burghardt, J., Cludius, B., Ehrenthal, J. C., Elsaesser, M., Haberkamp, A., Hechler, T., Kräplin, A., Paret, C., Schulze, L., Wilker, S. & Niemeyer, H., (2024). Response to responsible research assessment I and II from the perspective of the DGPs working group on open science in clinical psychology. Metapsychology, 8, MP.2023.3794. https://doi.org/10.15626/MP.2023.3794
Machulska, A., Woud, M. L., Brailovskaia, J., Margraf, J., & Klucken, T. (2024). Nicotine-related interpretation biases in cigarette smoking individuals. Scientific Reports, 14: 4796. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-55256-6
Haehner, P., Würtz, F., Kritzler, S., Kunna, M., Luhmann, M., & Woud, M.L. (2024). The relationship between the perception of major life events and depression: A systematic scoping review and meta-analysis. Journal of Affective Disorders, 349, 145–157. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2024.01.042
Deisenhofer, A.-K., Barkham, M., Beierl, E. T., Schwartz, B., Aafjes-van Doorn, K., Beevers, C. G., Berwian, I. M., Blackwell, S. E., Bockting, C. L., Brakemeier, E.-L., Brown, G., Buckman, J. E. J., Castonguay, L. G., Cusack, C. E., Dalgleish, T., de Jong, K., Delgadillo, J., DeRubeis, R. J., Driessen, E., … Cohen, Z. D. (2024). Implementing precision methods in personalizing psychological therapies: Barriers and possible ways forward. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 172, 104443. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2023.104443
Bibi, A., Blackwell, S. E., & Margraf, J. (2024). Positive Mental Imagery and Mental Health amongst University Students in Pakistan. International Journal of Psychology, 59, 55-63. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijop.12946

2023

Abado, E., Aue, T., & Okon-Singer, H. (2023). Spider vs. Guns: Expectancy and attention biases to phylogenetic threat do not extend to ontogenetic threat. Frontiers in Psychology, 14. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1232985
Blackwell, S. E., Schönbrodt, F. D., Woud, M. L., Wannemüller, A., Bektas, B., Rodrigues, M. B., Hirdes, J., Stumpp, M., & Margraf, J. (2023). Demonstration of a ‘leapfrog’ randomized controlled trial as a method to accelerate the development and optimization of psychological interventions. Psychological Medicine, 53, 6113-6123. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291722003294
Blackwell, S. E., Wilhelm, F. H., Reinecke, A., Margraf, J., & Woud, M. L. (2023). Measuring Symptom-Specific Panic-Relevant Associations Using Single-Target Implicit Association Tests. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 47,720–731. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10608-023-10384-7
Schenkel, E. J., Schöneck, R., Wiers, R. W., Veling, H., Becker, E. S., Lindenmeyer, J., & Rinck, M. (2023). Does selective inhibition training reduce relapse rates when added to standard treatment of alcohol use disorder? A randomized controlled trial. Alcohol: Clinical and Experimental Research, 47(5), 963-974. https://doi.org/10.1111/acer.15055
Landrø, N. I., Harmer, C. J., Blackwell, S. E., Ragnhild, B., Dawson, G. R., Solbø Hagen, H., Goodwin, G., Kingslake, J., Klovning, A., Klungsøyr, O., Schjøtt-Pedersen, O., Sæther, A. K., Stensland Torgersen, K., Vaaler, A., Andreassen, O. A., Røssberg., J. I. (2023). Combining Antidepressants and Attention Bias Modification in Primary Health Care (Deptreat): Protocol for a Pragmatic Randomized Controlled Trial. Contemporary Clinical Trials, 133, 107326. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cct.2023.107326
Cludius, B., Hummel, J., Limburg, K., Woud, M.L., & Takano, K. (2023). Development and validation of the ambiguous scenario task for perfectionistic concerns for university students. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 79, 101811. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbtep.2022.101811
Ehring, T. & Woud, M.L. (2023) Towards a better understanding of the role of reappraisal in psychopathology and its treatment: Commentary on “Reappraising Reappraisal: An Expanded View”, Cognition and Emotion, 37(3), 378-383, https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2023.2208341
Hummel, J., Cludius, B., Woud, M.L., Holdenrieder, J., Mende, N., Huber, V., Limburg, K., & Takano, K. (2023). The causal relationship between perfectionism and negative affect: Two experimental studies. Personality and Individual Differences, 200, 111895. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2022.111895
Lipp, A., Macit, B., Woud, M.L., Dere, E., & Zlomuzica, A. (2023). Conscious knowledge of CS-UCS contingency information affects extinction retrieval of conditioned disgust responses: Findings from an online de novo disgust conditioning task. International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology, 23(3), 100368. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijchp.2023.100368
Schäfer, S. K., Lüder, C. C., Porcheret, K., Hu, X., Margraf, J., Michael, T., Holmes, E.A., Werner, G. G., Wilhelm, I., Woud, M.L., Zeng, S., Friesen, E., Haim-Nachum, S., Lass-Hennemann, J., Lieb, K., Kunzler, A.M., Wirth, B.E., & Sopp, M.R. (2023). To sleep or not to sleep, that is the question: A systematic review and meta-analysis on the effect of post-trauma sleep on intrusive memories of analog trauma. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 167, 104359. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2023.104359
Moritz, S., Penney, D., Missmann, F., Weidinger, S., & Schmotz, S. (2023). Self-Help Habit Replacement in Individuals With Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviors: A Proof-of-Concept Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Dermatology, 159(9), 992–995. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamadermatol.2023.2167
Moritz, S., Penney, D., Mißmann, F., Snorrason, I., & Schmotz, S. (2023). Same but different? Phenomenological differences among various types of body-focused repetitive behaviors. Annals of Clinical Psychiatry, 35(4), 252–259. https://doi.org/10.12788/acp.0123
Blackwell, S. E., Ehring, T., Gladwin, T., Margraf, J., & Woud, M. L. (2023). The relationship between self-traumatized and self-vulnerable automatic associations and posttraumatic stress symptoms among adults who have experienced a distressing life event. Current Psychology, 42, 11674–11684. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-021-02441-9
Würtz, F., Steinman, S., Blackwell, S. E., Wilhelm, F. H., Reinecke, A., Adolph, D., Margraf, J., & Woud, M. L. (2023). Effects of Training Body-Related Interpretations on Panic-Related Cognitions and Symptoms. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 47, 494-509. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10608-023-10358-9

2022

Würtz, F., Blackwell, S. E., Margraf, J., & Woud, M. L. (2022). The world dangerous it is – The scrambled sentences task for in the context of posttraumatic stress symptoms. Journal of Experimental Psychopathology, 13(3), 20438087221124737. https://doi.org/10.1177/20438087221124737
Blackwell, S. E., & Woud, M. L. (2022). Making the leap: From experimental psychopathology to clinical trials. Journal of Experimental Psychopathology, 13(1), 20438087221080076. https://doi.org/10.1177/20438087221080075
Würtz, F., Zahler, L., Blackwell, S. E., Margraf, J., Bagheri, M., & Woud, M. L. (2022). Scrambled but valid? The scrambled sentences task as a measure of interpretation biases in psychopathology: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Clinical Psychology Review, 93, 102133. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpr.2022.102133
Würtz, F., Krans, J., Blackwell, S. E., Cwik, J. C., Margraf, J., & Woud, M. L. (2022). Using Cognitive Bias Modification-Appraisal Training to Manipulate Appraisals about the Self and the World in Analog Trauma. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 46, 232-246. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10608-021-10257-x
Labrenz, F., Woud, M.L., Elsenbruch, S., & Icenhour, A. (2022). The good, the bad and the ugly – Chances, challenges and clinical implications of avoidance research in psychosomatic medicine. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 13, 841734. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.841734
Woud, M.L. (2022). Interpretational biases in emotional psychopathology. Cognitive and Behavioral Practice, 29(3), 520–523. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cbpra.2022.02.010
Woud, M.L., Wittekind C.E., & Würtz, F. (2022). Cognitive Bias Modification bei Symptomen der Posttraumatischen Belastungsstörung. Verhaltenstherapie, 32, 139–147. https://doi.org/10.1159/000524709

2021

Dempsey-Jones, H., Steudte-Schmiedgen, S., Browning, M., Makin, T., Woud, M.L., Harmer, C.J., ... & Reinecke, A. (2021). Human perceptual learning is delayed by the NMDA receptor partial agonist D-cycloserine. Journal of Psychopharmacology, 35, 253-264. https://doi.org/10.1177/0269881120986349
Westermann, K., Woud, M. L., Cwik, J. C., Graz, C., Nyhuis, P., Margraf, J., & Blackwell, S. E. (2021). Feasibility of computerized positive mental imagery training as a treatment adjunct in inpatient mental health settings: a randomized controlled trial. BJPsychOpen, 7, e203. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjo.2021.1042
Zahler, L., Meyers, M., Woud, M. L., Blackwell, S. E., Margraf, J., & Velten, J. (2021). Using three indirect measures to assess the role of sexuality-related associations and interpretations for women’s sexual desire: An Internet-based experimental study. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 50, 2471-2484. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-020-01897-3
Abado, E., Aue, T., & Okon-Singer, H. (2021). Cognitive Biases in Blood-Injection-Injury Phobia: A Review. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 12. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.678891
Wannemüller, A., Kumsta, R., Jöhren, H-P., Eley, T. C., Teismann, T., Moser, D., Rayner, C., Breen, G., Schaumburg, S., Blackwell, S. E., & Margraf, J. (2021). Genes in treatment: polygenic risk scores for different psychopathologies, neuroticism, educational attainment and IQ and the outcome of two different exposure-based fear treatments. The World Journal of Biological Psychiatry, 22, 699-712. https://doi.org/10.1080/15622975.2021.1907708
Woud, M. L., Blackwell, S. E., Shkreli, L., Würtz, F., Cwik, J. C., Margraf, J., Holmes, E. A., Steudte-Schmiedgen, S., Herpertz, S., & Kessler, H. (2021). The effects of modifying dysfunctional appraisals in post-traumatic stress disorder using a form of cognitive bias modification: Results of a randomized controlled trial in an inpatient setting. Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, 90, 386-402. https://doi.org/10.1159/000514166
Pile, V., Smith, P., Leamy, M., Oliver, A., Blackwell, S. E., Meiser-Stedman, R., Dunn, B. D., Holmes, E. A., & Lau, J. Y. F. (2021). Harnessing mental imagery and enhancing memory specificity: developing a brief early intervention for depressive symptoms in adolescence. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 45, 885-901. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10608-020-10130-3
Pile, V., Smith, P., Leamy, M., Oliver, A., Bennett, E., Blackwell, S. E., Meiser-Stedman, R., Stringer, D., Dunn, B. D., Holmes, E. A., Lau, J. Y. F. (2021). A feasibility randomised controlled trial of a brief early intervention for adolescent depression that targets emotional mental images and memory specificity (IMAGINE trial). Behaviour Research and Therapy, 143, 103876. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2021.103876
Wong, S. F., Vaillancourt, S., Grossman, S., Kelly-Turner, K., Blackwell, S. E., Ellenbogen, M. A. (2021) Intranasal oxytocin increases state anhedonia following imagery training of positive social outcomes in individuals lower in extraversion, trust-altruism, and openness to experience. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 165, 8-17. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2021.03.013
Bibi, A., Blackwell, S. E., & Margraf, J. (2021). Mental health, suicidal ideation, and experience of bullying among university students in Pakistan. Journal of Health Psychology, 26, 1185-1196. https://doi.org/10.1177/1359105319869819
Blackwell, S. E. & Heidenreich, T. (2021). Cognitive Behavior Therapy at the crossroads. International Journal of Cognitive Therapy, 14, 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41811-021-00104-y
Blackwell, S. E. (2021). Mental imagery in the science and practice of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy: past, present, and future perspectives. International Journal of Cognitive Therapy, 14, 160-181. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41811-021-00102-0
Koerner, N., & Blackwell, S. E. (2021). Mental imagery in chronic worry and generalized anxiety disorder: Shining a spotlight on a key research and clinical target. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 137, 103785. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2020.103785

2020

Blackwell, S. E., Dooley, D., Würtz, F., Woud, M. L., & Margraf, J. (2020). Inducing positive involuntary mental imagery in everyday life: an experimental investigation. Memory, 28, 1157-1172. https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2020.1822413
Meyer, T., Brewin, C.R., King, J.A., Nijmeijer, D., Woud, M.L., & Becker, E.S. (2020). Arresting visuospatial stimulation is insufficient to disrupt analogue traumatic intrusions. PloS one, 15(2), e0228416. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0228416
Shkreli, L*., Woud, M.L.*, Kroj, A.E., Waldhauser, G.T., Kumsta R., & Reinecke, A. (2020). Angiotensin involvement in trauma processing – Exploring candidate neurocognitive mechanisms of preventing posttraumatic stress symptoms. Neuropsychopharmacology, 45, 507-514. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41386-019-0553-y * Authors contributed equally
Abado, E., Aue, T., & Okon-Singer, H. (2020). The Missing Pieces of the Puzzle: A Review on the Interactive Nature of A-Priori Expectancies and Attention Bias toward Threat. Brain Sciences, 10(10), 745.‏ https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci10100745
Abado, E., Richter, T., & Okon-Singer, H. (2020). Attention biases toward negative stimuli. In T. Aue & H. Okon-Singer (Eds.), Cognitive biases in health and psychiatric disorders: Neurophysiological foundations. San Diego: Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-816660-4.00002-7
Abado, E., Sagi, J., Silber, N., De Houwer, J., Aue, T., & Okon-Singer, H. (2020). Reducing attention bias in spider fear by manipulating expectancies. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 135, 103729.‏ https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2020.103729
Zahler, L., Sommer, K., Reinecke, A., Wilhelm, F.H., Margraf, J., & Woud, M.L. (2020). Cognitive vulnerability in the context of panic: Assessment of panic-related associations and interpretations in individuals with varying levels of anxiety sensitivity. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 44, 858-873. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10608-020-10103-6
Iyadurai, L., Hales, S. A., Blackwell, S. E., Young, K., & Holmes, E. A. (2020). Targeting intrusive imagery using a competing task technique: a case study. Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, 48, 739-744. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1352465820000296
Blackwell, S. E. (2020). Clinical efficacy of cognitive bias modification interventions. Lancet Psychiatry, 7, 465-467. https://doi.org/S2215-0366(20)30170-X
Spies, J. P., Woud, M. L., Kessler, H., Rau, H., Willmund, G. D., Köhler, K., Herpertz, S., Blackwell, S. E., Bovin, M. J., Marx, B., & Cwik, J. C. (2020). Psychometric properties of the German version of the Clinician-Administered PTSD Scale for DSM-5 (CAPS-5) in clinical routine settings: study design and protocol of a multitrait-multimethods study. BMJ Open, 10:e036078. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2019-036078
Preis, M. A., Zellerhoff, M., Brockmeyer, T. (2020). Approach bias modification training to increase physical activity: A pilot randomized controlled trial in healthy volunteers. Journal of Health Psychology, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1177/1359105320913936
Preis, M. A., Schlegel, K., Stoll, L., Blomberg, M., Schmidt, H., Wuensch-Leiteritz, W., Leiteritz, A., Brockmeyer, T. (2020). Improving emotion recognition in anorexia nervosa: an experimental proof-of-concept study. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1002/eat.23276
Bibi, A., Margraf, J., & Blackwell, S. E. (2020). Positive imagery cognitive bias modification for symptoms of depression amongst university students in Pakistan: a pilot study. Journal of Experimental Psychopathology, 11. https://doi.org/10.1177/2043808720918030
Miragall, M., Borrego, A., Cebolla, A., Etchemendy, E., Navarro-Siurana, J., Llorens, R., Blackwell, S. E., & Baños, R. M. (2020). Effect of an upright (vs. Stooped) posture on interpretation bias, imagery, and emotions. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 68, 101560.. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbtep.2020.101560
Kessler, H., Schmidt, A.-C., James, E. L., Blackwell, S. E., von Rauchhaupt, M., Harren, K., Kehyayan, A., Clark, I. A., Sauvage, M., Herpertz, S., Axmacher, N., & Holmes, E. A. (2020). Visuospatial computer game play after memory reactivation delivered three days after a traumatic film reduces the number of intrusive memories of the experimental trauma. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 67, 101454. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbtep.2019.01.006

2019

Blackwell, S. E., Woud, M. L., Margraf, J., & Schönbrodt, F. D. (2019). Introducing the leapfrog design: A simple Bayesian adaptive rolling trial design for accelerated treatment development and optimization. Clinical Psychological Science, 7, 1222-1243. https://doi.org/10.1177/2167702619858071 (view preprint version)
Cwik, J.C., Vahle, N., Woud, M.L., Potthoff, D., Kessler, H., Sartory, G., & Seitz, R.J. (2019). Reduced gray matter volume in the left prefrontal, occipital, and temporal regions as predictors for posttraumatic stress disorder: A voxel-based morphometric study. European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience, 270(5), 577–588. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00406-019-01011-2
McNally, R.J., & Woud, M.L. (2019). Innovations in the study of appraisals and PTSD. A commentary. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 43, 295-302. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10608-018-09995-2
Pulcu, E., Shkreli, L., Guzman Holst, C., Woud, M.L., Craske, M., Browning, M., & Reinecke A. (2019). The effects of the angiotensin II receptor antagonist losartan on appetitive versus aversive learning: A randomized controlled trial. Biological Psychiatry, 86(5), 397–404. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2019.04.010
Raeder, F., Woud, M.L., Schneider, S., Totzeck, C., Adolph, D., Margraf, J., & Zlomuzica, A. (2019). Reactivation and evaluation of mastery experiences promotes exposure benefit in height phobia. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 43, 948-958. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10608-019-10018-x
Salemink, E., Woud, M.L., Roos, M., Wiers, R.W., & Lindgren, K. (2019). Reducing alcohol-related interpretive bias in negative affect situations: Using a scenario-based Cognitive Bias Modification training paradigm. Addictive Behaviors, 88, 106–113. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addbeh.2018.07.023
Woud, M.L., Heeren, A., Shkreli, L., Meyer, T., Egeri, L., Cwik, J.C., Zlomuzica, A., Kessler, H., & Margraf, J. (2019). Investigating the effect of proactive interference control training on intrusive memories. European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 10(1), 1611092. https://doi.org/10.1080/20008198.2019.1611092
Woud, M.L., Kleim, B., & Cwik, J.C. (2019). Editorial for the special issue on negative appraisals in trauma: Current status and future directions for research. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 43, 139-142. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10608-018-09992-5
De Kleine, R.A., Woud, M.L., Ferentzi, H., Hendriks, G.J., Broekman, T., Becker, E.S., & Van Minnen, A. (2019). Appraisal-based cognitive bias modification in patients with posttraumatic stress disorder: A randomised clinical trial. European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 10(1), 1625690. https://doi.org/10.1080/20008198.2019.1625690
Blackwell, S. E. (2019). Mental imagery: from basic research to clinical practice. Journal of Psychotherapy Integration, 29, 235-247. https://doi.org/10.1037/int0000108
Velten, J., Blackwell, S. E., Margraf, J., & Woud, M. L. (2019). Assessing Cognitive Appraisals Related to Sexual Function: A Scenario-Based Approach. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 48, 781-794. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-019-1398-5
Woud, M. L., Cwik, J. C., de Kleine, R. A., Blackwell, S. E., Würtz, F., Margraf, J. (2019). Assessing trauma-related appraisals by means of a scenario-based approach. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 43, 185-198. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10608-018-9956-z
Murphy, F. C., Peers, P. V., Blackwell, S. E., Holmes, E. A., & Manly, T. (2019). Anticipated and imagined futures: prospective cognition and depressed mood following brain injury. British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 58, 91-109. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjc.12202

2018

Glaser, T., Woud, M.L., Islander, M.L., Schmalenstroth, V., & Vo, T.M. (2018). Positive, negative, or all relative? Evaluative conditioning of ambivalence. Acta Psychologica, 185, 155–165. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2018.02.006
Kessler, H., Holmes, E. A., Blackwell, S. E., Schmidt, A., Schweer, J. M., Bücker, A., Herpertz, S., Axmacher, N., Kehyayan, A. (2018). Reducing intrusive memories of trauma using a visuospatial interference intervention with inpatients with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 86, 1076-1090. https://doi.org/10.1037/ccp0000340
Hales, S. A., Di Simplicio, M., Iyadurai, L., Blackwell, S. E., Young, K., Fairburn, C. G., Geddes, J. R., Goodwin, G. M., & Holmes, E. A. (2018). Imagery-focused cognitive therapy (ImCT) for mood instability and anxiety in a small sample of patients with bipolar disorder: a pilot clinical audit. Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, 46, 706-725. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1352465818000334
Preis, M., Vögtle, E., Dreyer, N., Seel, S., Wagner, R., Hanshans, K., Reyersbach, R., Pieh, C., Mühlberger, A. & Probst, T. (2018). Long-Term Outcomes of a Multimodal Day-Clinic Treatment for Chronic Pain under the Conditions of Routine Care. Pain Research and Management. Article ID 9472104. (geteilte Erstautorenschaft).
Blackwell, S. E., Westermann, K., Woud, M. L., Cwik, J. C., Neher, T., Graz, C., Nyhuis, P. W., & Margraf, J. (2018). Computerized positive mental imagery training versus cognitive control training versus treatment as usual in inpatient mental health settings: study protocol for a randomized controlled feasibility trial. BMC Pilot and Feasibility Studies, 4: 133. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40814-018-0325-1
Woud, M. L., Blackwell, S. E., Cwik, J. C., Margraf, J., Holmes, E. A., Steudte-Schmiedgen, S., Herpertz, S., & Kessler, H. (2018). Augmenting inpatient treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder with a computerized cognitive bias modification procedure targeting appraisals (CBM-App): Protocol for a randomized controlled trial. BMJ Open, 8: e019964. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2017-019964
Zhang, X., Woud, M.L., Becker, E.S., & Margraf, J. (2018). Do health‐related factors predict major depression? A longitudinal epidemiologic study. Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy, 25(3), 378–387. https://doi.org/10.1002/cpp.2171
Zlomuzica, A., Preusser, F., Roberts, S., Woud, M.L., Lester, K., Dere, E., ... & Margraf, J. (2018). The role of KIBRA in reconstructive episodic memory. Molecular Medicine, 24(1), 7. https://doi.org/10.1186/s10020-018-0007-8
Zlomuzica, A., Woud, M.L., Machulska, A., Kleimt, K., Dietrich, L., Wolf, O. T., ... & Margraf, J. (2018). Deficits in episodic memory and mental time travel in patients with post-traumatic stress disorder. Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology & Biological Psychiatry, 83, 42–54. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pnpbp.2017.12.014
Pile, V., Smith, P., Leamy, M., Blackwell, S. E., Meiser-Stedman, R., Stringer, D., Ryan, E. G., Dunn, B. D., Holmes, E. A., & Lau, J. Y. F. (2018). A brief early intervention for adolescent depression that targets emotional mental images and memories: protocol for a feasibility randomised controlled trial (IMAGINE trial). BMC Pilot and Feasibility Studies, 4, 97. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40814-018-0287-3
Woud, M. L., Blackwell, S. E., Steudte-Schmiedgen, S., Browning, M., Holmes, E. A., Harmer, C. J., Margraf, J., & Reinecke, A. (2018). Investigating d-cycloserine as a potential pharmacological enhancer of an emotional bias learning procedure. Psychopharmacology, 32, 569-577. https://doi.org/10.1177/0269881118754679
Woud, M. L., Zlomuzica, A., Cwik, J., Margraf, J., Shrekli, L., Blackwell, S. E., Gladwin, T., & Ehring, T. (2018). Effects of appraisal training on responses to recalling a distressing autobiographical event. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 56, 26-34. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.janxdis.2018.03.010
Iyadurai, L., Blackwell, S. E., Meiser-Stedman, R., Watson, P. C., Bonsall, M. B., Geddes, J. R., Nobre, A. C., & Holmes, E. A. (2018). Preventing intrusive memories after trauma via a brief intervention involving Tetris computer game play in the Emergency Department: a proof-of-concept randomized controlled trial. Molecular Psychiatry, 23, 674-682. https://doi.org/10.1038/mp.2017.23
Woud, M. L., Cwik, J. C., Blackwell, S. E., Kleim, B., Holmes, E. A., Adolph, D., Zhang, H., & Margraf, J. (2018). Does napping enhance the effects of Cognitive Bias Modification-Appraisal training? An experimental study. PloS ONE 13(2): e0192837. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0192837

2017

Blackwell, S. E., Woud, M. L., & MacLeod, C. (2017) A question of control? Examining the role of control conditions in experimental psychopathology using the example of cognitive bias modification research. Spanish Journal of Psychology, 20: e54. https://doi.org/10.1017/sjp.2017.41
Hutschemaekers, M.H., Woud, M.L., Becker, E.S., & Rinck, M. (2017). Reducing alcohol-related interpretation biases in young hazardous drinkers by Cognitive Bias Modification - Interpretation Training. SUCHT, 62(6), 366–373. http://dx.doi.org/10.1024/0939-5911/a000456
Maas, J., Woud, M.L., Keijsers, G., Rinck, M., Becker, E.S., & Wiers, R.W. (2017). The attraction of sugar: An association between body mass index and impaired avoidance of sweet snacks. Journal of Experimental Psychopathology, 7, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.5127/jep.052415
Preis, M. A., Golm, D., Kröner-Herwig, B. & Barke, A. (2017). Examining differences in cognitive and affective theory of mind between persons with high and low extent of somatic symptoms: an experimental study. BMC Psychiatry, 17(1), 200. https://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12888-017-1360-9, ISSN: 1471-244X.
Woud, M.L., Verwoerd, J.R.L., & Krans, J. (2017). Modification of Cognitive Biases related to posttraumatic stress: A systematic review and research agenda. Clinical Psychology Review, 54, 81–95. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpr.2017.04.003
Zhang, X.C., Kuchinke, L., Woud, M.L., Velten, J., & Margraf, J. (2017). Survey method matters: Online/offline questionnaires and face-to-face or telephone interviews differ. Computers in Human Behavior, 71, 172-180. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2017.02.006
Murphy, S. E., O’Donoghue, M. C., Blackwell, S. E., Nobre, A. C., Browning, M., & Holmes, E. A. (2017). Increased Rostral Anterior Cingulate Activity following positive mental imagery training in healthy older adults. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 12, 1950-1958. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsx120
de Voogd, L., de Hullu, E., Burnett Heyes, S., Blackwell, S. E., Wiers, R. W., Salemink, E. (2017). Imagine the bright side of life: A randomized controlled trial of two types of interpretation bias modification procedure targeting adolescent anxiety and depression. PLoS ONE 12(7): e0181147. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0181147
Renner, F., Ji, J. L., Pictet, A., Holmes, E. A., & Blackwell, S. E. (2017). Effects of engaging in repeated mental imagery of future positive events on behavioural activation in individuals with major depressive disorder. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 41, 369-380. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10608-016-9776-y
Blackwell, S. E., & Holmes, E. A. (2017). Brightening the day with flashes of positive mental imagery: a case study of an individual with depression. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 73, 579-589. https://doi.org/10.1002/jclp.22455
Horsch, A., Vial, Y., Favrod, C., Harari, M. M., Blackwell, S. E., Watson, P., Iyadurai, L., Bonsall, M. B., & Holmes, E. A. (2017). Reducing intrusive traumatic memories after emergency caesarean section: a proof-of-principle randomized controlled study. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 94, 36-47. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2017.03.018
Burnett Heyes, S., Pictet, A., Mitchell, H., Raeder, S. M., Lau, J. Y. F., Holmes, E. A., & Blackwell, S.E. (2017). Mental imagery-based training to modify mood and cognitive bias in adolescents. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 41, 73-88. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10608-016-9795-8
Hitchcock, C., Werner-Seidler, A., Blackwell, S. E., & Dalgleish, T. (2017). Autobiographical episodic memory-based training for the treatment of mood, anxiety and stress-related disorders: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Clinical Psychology Review, 52, 92-107. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpr.2016.12.003
Wannemueller, A., Adoph, D., Joehren, H., Blackwell, S. E. & Margraf, J. (2017). Psychophysiological reactivity of currently dental phobic-, remitted dental phobic- and never-dental phobic individuals during exposure to dental-related and other affect-inducing materials. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 90, 76-86. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2016.12.009
Ji, J. L., Holmes, E. A., & Blackwell, S. E. (2017). Seeing light at the end of the tunnel: positive prospective mental imagery and optimism in depression. Psychiatry Research, 247, 155-162. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2016.11.025
Cwik, J. C., Till, B., Bieda, A., Blackwell, S. E., Walter, C., Teismann, T. (2017). Measuring attitudes towards suicide: Preliminary evaluation of an attitude towards suicide scale. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 72, 56-65. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comppsych.2016.09.008

2016

Di Simplicio, M., Renner, F., Blackwell, S. E., Mitchell, H., Stratford, H. J., Watson, P., Myers, N., Nobre, A. C., Lau-Zhu, A., & Holmes, E. A. (2016). An investigation of mental imagery in bipolar disorder: Exploring “the mind’s eye”. Bipolar Disorders, 18, 669-683. https://doi.org/10.1111/bdi.12453
Markus, W., de Weert-van Oene, G., Woud, M.L., Becker, E.S., & de Jong, C. (2016). Are addiction-related memories malleable by working memory competition? Transient effects on memory vividness and nicotine craving in a randomized lab experiment. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 52, 83–91. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbtep.2016.03.007
Moss, A., Curran, H. V., Bloomfield, M. A. P., Kamboj, S. K., Blackwell, S. E., & Freeman, T. P. (2016). Bringing together pharmacological and psychological approaches to mental health research. Lancet Psychiatry, 3, 700-702, https://doi.org/10.1016/S2215-0366(16)30080-3
Woud, M.L., Becker, E.S., Rinck, M., Harmer, C.J., & Reinecke, A. (2016). Assessment of automatic associations with bodily sensations and agoraphobic situations in panic disorder. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 52, 105–109. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbtep.2016.04.001
Woud, M.L., Maas, J., Wiers, R.W., Becker, E.S., & Rinck, M. (2016). Assessment of tobacco-related approach and attentional biases in smokers, cravers, ex-smokers, and non-smokers. Frontiers in Psychology, 7, 172. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00172
Woud, M.L., Salemink, E., Gladwin, T.E., Wiers, R.W., Becker, S.E., Lindenmeyer, L., & Rinck, M. (2016). Alcohol homograph priming in alcohol-dependent inpatients. SUCHT, 62(4), 217–224. http://dx.doi.org/10.1024/0939-5911/a000432
Woud, M.L., Zhang, X.C., Becker, E.S., Zlumozica, A., & Margraf, J. (2016). Catastrophizing misinterpretations predict somatoform-related symptoms and new onsets of somatoform disorders. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 81, 31–37. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychores.2015.12.005
Holmes, E. A., Blackwell, S. E., Burnett Heyes, S., Renner, F., & Raes, F. (2016). Mental imagery in depression: phenomenology, potential mechanisms, and treatment implications. Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, 12, 249-280. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-clinpsy-021815-092925
Holmes, E. A., Bonsall, M. B., Hales, S. A., Mitchell, H., Renner, F., Blackwell, S. E., Watson, P., Goodwin, G. M., & Di Simplicio, M. (2016). Applications of time-series analysis to mood fluctuations in bipolar disorder to promote treatment innovation: A case series. Translational Psychiatry, 6, e720. https://doi.org/10.1038/tp.2015.207

2015

Blackwell, S. E., Browning, M., Mathews, A., Pictet, A., Welch, J., Davies, J., Watson, P., Geddes, J. R., & Holmes, E. A. (2015). Positive imagery-based cognitive bias modification as a web-based treatment tool for depressed adults: a randomized controlled trial. Clinical Psychological Science, 3, 91-111. https://doi.org/10.1177/2167702614560746
Kersbergen, I., Woud, M.L., & Field, M. (2015). The validity of different measures of automatic alcohol action tendencies. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors: Journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors, 29(1), 225–230. https://doi.org/10.1037/adb0000009
Murphy, S. E., O’Donoghue, C. M., Drazich, E. H. S., Blackwell, S. E., Nobre, A. C., & Holmes, E. A. (2015). Imagining a brighter future: the effect of positive imagery training on mood, prospective mental imagery and emotional bias in older adults. Psychiatry Research, 230, 36-43. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2015.07.059
Preis, M., Kallista, C., Kröger, L., Schlimme, S., Kröner-Herwig, B. & Barke, A. (2015). Fremdschamskala Göttingen (FSS-Gö). Psychometrikon [http://www.psychometrikon.de]. https://dx.doi.org/10.6099/1000233
Preis, M. A., Kröner-Herwig, B., Schmidt-Samoa, C., Dechent, P. & Barke, A. (2015). Neural correlates of empathy with pain show habituation effects. An fMRI study. PLoS ONE, 10(8). ISSN: 1932-6203.
Woud, M.L., Becker, E.S., Rinck, M., & Salemink, E. (2015). The relationship between drinking motives and alcohol-related interpretation biases. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 47, 102–110. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbtep.2014.11.012
Woud, M.L., Hutschemaekers, M.M.H., Rinck, M., & Becker, E.S. (2015). The manipulation of alcohol-related interpretation biases by means of cognitive bias modification – Interpretation (CBM-I). Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 49, 61–68. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbtep.2015.03.001
Williams, A. D., O’Moore, K., Blackwell, S. E., Smith, J., Holmes, E. A., & Andrews, G. (2015). Positive imagery cognitive bias modification (CBM) and internet-based cognitive behavioural therapy (iCBT): A randomized controlled trial. Journal of Affective Disorders, 178, 131-141. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2015.02.026
Stratford, H. J., Cooper, M. J., Di Simplicio, M., Blackwell, S. E., & Holmes, E. A. (2015). Psychological therapy for anxiety in bipolar spectrum disorders: a systematic review. Clinical Psychology Review, 35, 19-34. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpr.2014.11.002

2014

Woud, M.L. & Becker, E.S. (2014). Editorial for the special issue on cognitive bias modification techniques: An introduction to a time traveller’s tale. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 38, 83-88. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10608-014-9605-0
Torkan, H., Blackwell, S. E., Holmes, E. A., Kalantari, M., Neshat-Doost, H. T., Maroufi, M., & Talebi, H. (2014). Positive imagery cognitive bias modification in treatment-seeking patients with major depression in Iran: a pilot study. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 38, 132-145. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10608-014-9598-8
Woud, M.L., Pawelczak, S., Rinck, M., Lindenmeyer, J., Souren, P., Wiers, R.W., & Becker, E.S. (2014). Alcohol-related interpretation bias in alcohol-dependent patients. Alcoholism, Clinical and Experimental Research, 38(4), 1151–1159. https://doi.org/10.1111/acer.12334
Woud, M.L., Zhang, X.C., Becker, E.S., McNally, R.J., & Margraf, J. (2014). Don’t panic: Interpretation bias is predictive of new onsets of panic disorder. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 28(1), 83–87. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.janxdis.2013.11.008
Rohrbacher, H., Blackwell, S. E., Holmes, E. A. & Reinecke, A. (2014). Optimizing the ingredients for imagery-based interpretation bias modification for depressed mood: is self-generation more effective than imagination alone? Journal of Affective Disorders, 152-154, 212-218. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2013.09.013
Clarke, P. J. F., Nanthakumar, S., Notebaert, L., Holmes, E. A., Blackwell, S. E., & MacLeod, C. (2014). Simply imagining sunshine, lollipops and rainbows will not budge the bias: The role of ambiguity in interpretive bias modification. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 38, 120-131. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10608-013-9564-x
Vassilopoulos, S.P., Blackwell, S. E., Missailidi, P., Kyritsi, A., & Ayfanti, M. (2014). The differential effects of written and spoken presentation for the modification of interpretation and judgmental bias in children. Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, 42, 535-554. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1352465813000301

2013

Williams, A. D., Blackwell, S. E., Holmes, E. A., & Andrews, G. (2013). Positive imagery cognitive bias modification (CBM) and internet-based cognitive behavioural therapy (iCBT) versus control CBM and iCBT for depression: Study protocol for a parallel-group randomised controlled trial. BMJ Open, 3: e004049. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2013-004049
Preis, M. A., Schmidt-Samoa, C., Dechent, P. & Kröner-Herwig, B. (2013). The effects of prior pain experience on neural correlates of empathy for pain: An fMRI study. Pain, 154(3), 411-418. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pain.2012.11.014, ISSN: 0304-3959.
Rinck, M., & Telli, S., Kampmann, I.L., Woud, M.L., Kerstholt, M., te Velthuis, S., Wittkowski, M., & Becker, E.S. (2013). Training approach-avoidance of smiling faces affects emotional vulnerability in socially anxious individuals. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 7, 481. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2013.00481
Woud, M.L., Becker, E.S., Lange, W.G., & Rinck, M. (2013). To like or not to like: The effect of approach-avoidance training on neutral, angry and smiling face stimuli. Psychological Reports, 113(1), 1211–1228. https://doi.org/10.2466/21.07.pr0.113x10z1
Woud, M.L. & Krans, J. (2013). Cognitive Bias Modification (CBM) technieken bij posttraumatische stresstoornis (PTSS): Eerste bevindingen en toekomstige perspectieven. Directieve Therapie, 33, 170-187.
Woud, M.L., Maas, J., Becker, E.S., & Rinck, M. (2013). Make the manikin move: Symbolic approach-avoidance responses induce implicit and explicit evaluation bias. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 25(6), 738–744. https://doi.org/10.1080/20445911.2013.817413
Woud, M.L., Postma, P., Holmes, E.A., & Mackintosh, B. (2013). Reducing analogue trauma symptoms by computerized cognitive reappraisal training – Considering a cognitive prophylaxis? Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 44(3), 312–315. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbtep.2013.01.003
Woud, M.L., Wiers, R.W., Pawelczak, S., Becker, E.S., Lindenmeyer, J., & Rinck, M. (2013). Does negative affect prime alcohol in addicted inpatients? A large-scale clinical investigation of the moderating role of depression and executive control. Journal of Experimental Psychopathology, 3, 279–290. https://doi.org/10.5127/jep.031012
Williams, A. D., Blackwell, S. E., Mackenzie, A., Holmes, E. A., & Andrews, G. (2013). Combining imagination and reason in the treatment of depression: A randomized controlled trial of internet-based cognitive bias modification and internet-CBT for depression. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 81, 793-799. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0033247
Blackwell, S. E., Rius-Ottenheim, N., Schulte-van Maaren, Y. W. M., Carlier, I. V. E., Middelkoop, V. D., Zitman, F. G., Spinhoven, P., Holmes, E. A., & Giltay, E. J. (2013). Optimism and mental imagery: a possible cognitive marker to promote wellbeing? Psychiatry Research, 206, 56-61. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2012.09.047
Browning, M., Blackwell, S. E., & Holmes, E. A. (2013). The use of cognitive bias modification and imagery in the understanding and treatment of depression. Current Topics in Behavioral Neurosciences, 14, 243–260. https://doi.org/10.1007/7854_2012_212

2012

Lang, T. J., Blackwell, S. E., Harmer, C., Davison, P., & Holmes, E. A. (2012). Cognitive bias modification using mental imagery for depression: developing a novel computerized intervention to change negative thinking styles. European Journal of Personality, 26, 145-157. https://doi.org/10.100/per.855
Scheibner, H., & Woud, M.L. (2012). Mit dem Joystick gegen die Abhängigkeit: Computer-Gestützte Trainings zur Rückfallprävention. Konturen, 3, 15-20.
Preis, M. & Kröner-Herwig, B. (2012). Empathy for pain: The effects of prior experience and sex. European Journal of Pain, 16(9), 1311-1319. https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/j.1532-2149.2012.00119.x, ISSN: 1532-2149.
Woud, M.L., Fitzgerald, D.A., Wiers, R. W., Rinck, M., & Becker, E.S. (2012). ‘Getting into the spirit’: Interpretation bias in heavy drinking students. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 26, 627–632. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0029025
Woud, M.L., Holmes, E.A., Postma, P., Dalgleish, T., & Mackintosh, B. (2012). Ameliorating intrusive memories of distressing experiences using computerized reappraisal training. Emotion, 12(4), 778–784. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0024992
Davies, C., Malik, A., Pictet, A., Blackwell, S. E., & Holmes, E. A. (2012). Involuntary Memories after a Positive Film are Dampened by a Visuospatial Task: Unhelpful in Depression but Helpful in Mania? Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, 19, 341-351. https://doi.org/10.1002/cpp.1800
Vassilopolous, S. P., Blackwell, S. E., Moberly, N. J., & Karahaliou, E. (2012). Comparing imagery and verbal training instructions for the experimental modification of interpretation and judgmental bias in children. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 43, 594-601. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbtep.2011.08.004

2011

Woud, M.L., Anschutz, D., van Strien, T., & Becker, E.S. (2011). Thinspiration and fear of fat: A matter of approach avoidance. Appetite, 56(2), 451–455. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2010.12.012
Woud, M.L., Becker, E.S., & Rinck, M. (2011). Induction of implicit evaluation biases by approach avoidance training: A commentary to Vandenbosch & De Houwer. Cognition and Emotion, 25, 1331-1338. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2011.628300
Woud, M.L., Ellwart, T., Rinck, M., & Becker, E.S. (2011). Task-irrelevant spider associations affect categorization performance. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 42(3), 309–316. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbtep.2010.12.008
Holmes, E. A., James, E. L., Blackwell, S. E., & Hales, S. (2011). ‘They flash upon that inward eye’. The Psychologist, 24, 340-343.

2010

Blackwell, S. E., & Holmes, E. A. (2010). Modifying interpretation and imagination in clinical depression: A single case series using cognitive bias modification. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 24, 338-350. https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.1680

2009

Müller, B.C.N, van Baaren, R.B., Ritter, S.M., Woud, M.L., Bergmann, H., Harakeh, Z., Engels, R.C. M.E., & Dijksterhuis, A. (2009). Tell me why…The influence of self-involvement on short term smoking behaviour. Addictive Behaviors, 34(5), 427–431. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addbeh.2008.12.016

2008

Woud, M.L., Becker, E.S., & Rinck, M. (2008). Implicit evaluation bias induced by approach and avoidance. Cognition and Emotion, 22, 1187-1197. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02699930801906843

1999

Podczeck, F., Blackwell, S., Gold, M., & Newton, J.M. (1999). The filling of granules into hard gelatine capsules. International Journal of Pharmaceutics, 188, 59-69. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0378-5173(99)00208-2

Books and Edited Volumes

Woud, M.L. (2023). Interpretational processing biases in emotional psychopathology: From experimental investigation to clinical practice. Springer: New York. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-23650-1
Heidenreich, T., Tata, P., & Blackwell, S. (Eds.) (2019). Proceedings of the 9th World Congress of Behavioural and Cognitive Therapies. Tübingen: dgvt-Verlag.

Book Chapters

Salemink, E., Woud, M.L., Bouwmann, V., & Mobach, L. (2023). Cognitive Bias Modification Training to Change Interpretation Biases. In M.L. Woud (Ed.), Interpretational processing biases in emotional psychopathology: From experimental investigation to clinical practice. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-23650-1_11
Woud, M.L., & Hofmann, S.G. (2023). Changing Biased Interpretations in CBT: A Brief History and Overview. In M.L. Woud (Ed.), Interpretational processing biases in emotional psychopathology: From experimental investigation to clinical practice. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-23650-1_12
Blackwell, S. E. (2023). Mental imagery and interpretational processing biases. In M. L. Woud (Ed.), Interpretational Processing Biases in Emotional Psychopathology: From Experimental Investigation to Clinical Practice (pp. 97–116). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-23650-1_6
Hales, S. A., Young, K., Iyadurai, L., Blackwell, S. E., Kanstrup, M., & Holmes, E. A. (2022). Working with mental imagery in clinical psychology. In G. J. G. Asmundson (Ed.), Comprehensive Clinical Psychology, Second Edition. Amsterdam: Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-818697-8.00204-1
Blackwell, S. E. (2020). Emotional Mental Imagery. In A. Abraham (Ed.), Cambridge Handbook of the Imagination (pp. 241-257). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108580298.016
Kessler, H., Blackwell, S. E., & Kehyayan, A. (2017). Reconsolidation and trauma memory. In N. Axmacher & B. Rasch (Eds.), Cognitive Neuroscience of Memory Consolidation. Basel: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45066-7_22
Hales, S., Blackwell, S. E., Di Simplicio, M., Iyadurai, L., Young, K., & Holmes, E. A. (2015). Imagery-based cognitive-behavioral assessment. In G. P. Brown & D. A. Clark (Eds.), Assessment in Cognitive Therapy. New York: Guilford Press. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK311390/
Krans, J., Woud, M.L., Näring, G., Becker, E.S., & Holmes, E.A. (2010). Exploring involuntary recall in post-traumatic stress disorder from an information processing perspective. In J.H. Mace (Ed.), The act of remembering: Toward an understanding how we recall the past. Wiley-Blackwell: Malden, U.S.A.
Keijsers, G.P.J., Woud, M.L., & Becker, E.S. (2009). Psychotherapie en verandering van impliciete mentale processen. In S. Colijn, S. Bögels, & W. Trijsburg (Ed.), Leerboek Psychotherapie. De Tijdstroom: Utrecht.

Diagnostic Instruments

Cwik, J.C., Woud, M.L. & Schnyder, U. (2020). German version of the Clinician-Administered PTSD Scale for DSM-5 (CAPS-5). Interview available from the Mental Health Research and Treatment Center Bochum at https://www.kli.psy.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/klipsy/projekte/CAPS5.html

Public Communication of Science and Media

Article for Aeon+Psyche magazine on positive involuntary imagery, “It’s possible to help more positive images pop into your mind” (September 2021): https://psyche.co/ideas/its-possible-to-help-more-positive-images-pop-into-your-mind
Video interview for „The Integrative Therapist“ magazine (November 2019), about the 2019 article on mental imagery in the Journal of Psychotherapy Integration. https://vimeo.com/373504499
Zimmerman, S. (2016). Mentales Vorkosten weckt die Lebensgeister. Gehirn und Geist, 10, 56. Article about the paper Renner et al. (2017) in Cognitive Therapy and Research.