Research interests

• Social inference and social decision making in depression and other mental disorders
• Optimization of social expectations
• Cognitive immunization

Curriculum Vitae

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  0/2017 - 05/2022
  Postgraduate training in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), Institut für Psychotherapie Ausbildung Marburg (IPAM)
  
  10/2017 - 04/2021
  PhD (Dr. rer. nat.), Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Philipps-University of Marburg
  Thesis: “On the relevance, acquisition, and modification of disorder-specific expectations in the context of depressive disorders.“
  
  10/2015 - 07/2017
  Master’s degree in psychology (M.Sc.), Department of Psychological Methods, Philipps-University of Marburg
  Thesis: “The power of the situation in violent computer games -a meta-analytic examination of situational strength.”
  
  11/2013
  Licensed trainer of the “Affect Regulation Training” sensu Prof. Dr. Matthias Berking, Praxis für Psychotherapie und Beratung, Gießen 
  
  08/2011 - 09/2015
  Bachelor’s degree in psychology (B.Sc.), Department of Psychological Methods, Philipps-University of Marburg
  Thesis: “Situational strength in mood induction methods - a meta-analytic investigation.”
  
  08/2002 - 07/2011
  High school diploma, Christophorusschule Königswinter

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  Since 01/2022
  Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the cluster initiative “The Adaptive Mind” ( https://www.theadaptivemind.de/ )  funded by the Hessian Ministry of Higher Education, Research, Science and the Arts, Department of clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Philipps-University of Marburg
  
  Since 10/2017
  Therapist (outpatient clinic), Psychotherapie-Ambulanz Marburg (PAM)
  
  01/2021 - 12/2021
  Therapist (inpatient clinic), Asklepios Fachklinik Fürstenhof Bad Wildungen
  
  01/2018 - 12/2020
  Diagnostician in a multicenter study on persistent grief disorder (PROGRID) funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), Department of clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Philipps-University of Marburg
  
  10/2017 - 03/2021
  PhD Scholarship, Department of Psychological Methods, Philipps-University of Marburg
  
  10/2015-01/2016
  Student assistant in the course “Psychodiagnostic Interview and Behavioral Observation”, Department of Personality and Diagnostics, Philipps-University of Marburg
  
  08/2013 - 12/2013
  Student assistant in a multicenter study on emotion regulation in binge eating disorder funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), Department of clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Philipps-University of Marburg

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  Teaching (Philipps-University of Marburg):
  M-KPb – „Different Approaches to Psychotherapy in Clinical Practice“
  B-KP1a – Recognition of Mental Disorders: “Affective Disorders” 
  
  Supervision (Philipps-University of Marburg):
  More than 20 bachelor and master theses
  
  Academic self-administration (Philipps-University of Marburg):
  Member of the local ethics committee 
  
  Reviewer:
  Journal of Clinical Psychology in Europe
  Zeitschrift für Klinische Psychologie und Psychotherapie

Publications

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  Kirchner, L., Eckert, A., Berg, M., Endres, D., Straube, B., & Rief, W. (2022). Better safe than sorry? - An active inference account to biased inference of social contexts in depression. 

  Kirchner, L., Eckert, A.-L., & Berg, M. (2022). From broken models to treatment selection: Active inference as a tool to guide clinical research and practice. Clinical Psychology in Europe, 4(2), 1-5. 

  Kirchner, L., Schummer, S. E., Krug, H., Kube, T., & Rief, W. (2022). How social rejection expectations and depressive symptoms bi‐directionally predict each other – A cross‐lagged panel analysis. Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, 95(2), 477–492. 

  Berg, M., Feldmann, M., Kirchner, L., & Kube, T. (2021). Oversampled and undersolved: Depressive rumination from an active inference perspective. 

  Kube, T., Kirchner, L., Gärtner, T., & Glombiewski, J. A. (2021). How negative mood hinders belief updating in depression: Results from two experimental studies. Psychological Medicine, 1-14. 

  Kube T., Kirchner L., Lemmer G., Glombiewski, J. A. (2021). How the discrepancy between prior expectations and new information influences expectation updating in depression - The greater, the better? Clinical Psychological Science, 10(3):430-449.

  Sarter, L., Heider, J., Kirchner, L., Schenkel, S., Witthöft, M., Rief, W., & Kleinstäuber, M. (2021). Cognitive and emotional variables predicting treatment outcome of cognitive behavior therapies for patients with medically unexplained symptoms: A meta-analysis. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 146, 110486. 

  D’Astolfo, L., Kirchner, L., & Rief, W. (2020). No1LikesU! – A pilot study on an ecologically valid and highly standardised experimental paradigm to investigate social rejection expectations and their modification. Clinical Psychology in Europe, 2(2), 1-21. 

  Kube, T., Kirchner, L., Rief, W., Gärtner, T., & Glombiewski, J. A. (2019). Belief updating in depression is not related to increased sensitivity to unexpectedly negative information. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 123, 103509.