Steffen Moritz

Publications

• Patients responses to diagnoses of mental disorders: Development and validation of a reliable self-report measure

Schnell, T., Kehring, A., Moritz, S. & Morgenroth, O., 03.2021, in : INT J METH PSYCH RES. 30, 1, S. e1854

• Sleep problems and worrying precede psychotic symptoms during an online intervention for psychosis

Lüdtke, T., Pfuhl, G., Moritz, S., Rüegg, N. L., Berger, T. & Westermann, S., 03.2021, in : BRIT J CLIN PSYCHOL. 60, 1, S. 48-67 20 S.

• Jumping to conclusions is differently associated with specific subtypes of delusional experiences: An exploratory study in first-episode psychosis

Spanish Metacognition Group, 03.02.2021, in : Schizophrenia Research. 228, S. 357-359 3 S.

• Evaluation of an Internet-based metacognitive training for individuals who hear voices

Kühl, M., Lüdtke, T., Mehl, S. & Moritz, S. , 02.2021 , in: Schizophrenia Research. 228 , pp. 256-259 4 pp.

• Do sociodemographic variables moderate effects of an internet intervention for mild to moderate depressive symptoms? An exploratory analysis of a randomised controlled trial (EVIDENT) including 1013 participants

Nolte, S., Busija, L., Berger, T., Meyer, B., Moritz, S., Rose, M., Schröder, J., Späth-Nellissen, C. & Klein, J. P., 26.01.2021, in : BMJ OPEN. 11, 1, S. e041389

• Obsessive-compulsive disorder during COVID-19: Turning a problem into an opportunity?

Jelinek, L., Moritz, S., Miegel, F. & Voderholzer, U., 01.2021, in : J ANXIETY DISORD. 77, S. 102329

• Structured debriefing of coercive measures with patients - overview and current status

Krieger, E., Fischer, R. , Moritz, S. & Nagel, M., 01.2021 , in: NERVENARZT. 92 , 1 , pp. 44-49 6 pp.

• 2020


• Self-esteem mediates the relationship between perfectionism and obsessive-compulsive symptoms

Miegel, F., Moritz, S., Wagener, F., Cludius, B. & Jelinek, L., 01.12.2020, in : PERS INDIV DIFFER. 167, 110239.

• Feasibility, effectiveness and safety of the self-management intervention deprexis in routine medical care: Results of an uncontrolled observational study

Klein, J. P., Barthel, B., Berger, T. & Moritz, S., 12.2020, in : Internet Interv. 22, S. 100341 100341.

• Cognitive insight in first-episode psychosis: Changes during Metacognitive Training

Birulés, I., Lopez-Carrilero, R., Cuadras, D., Pousa, E., Barrigon, ML, Barajas, A., Lorente-Rovira, E., Gobzales-Higueras, F., Grasa, E., Ruiz-Delgado, I., Cid, J., de Apraiz, A., Montserrat, R., Pelaez, T., Moritz, S. , The Spanish Metacognition Study Group & Ochoa, S., 27.11.2020 , in: Int J Pers Cent Med. 10 , 4 , p. 253

• Problems in measuring the JTC-bias in patients with psychotic disorders with the fish task: a secondary analysis of a baseline assessment of a randomized controlled trial

Pytlik, N., Soll, D., Hesse, K., Moritz, S. , Bechdolf, A., Herrlich, J., Kircher, T., Klingberg, S., Landsberg, MW, Müller, BW, Wiedemann, G., Wittorf, A., Wölwer, W., Wagner, M. & flour, S., 11.23.2020 , in: BMC PSYCHIATRY. 20 , 1 , p. 554

• Recovery from pathological skin picking and dermatodaxia using a revised decoupling protocol

Moritz, S., Rufer, M. & Schmotz, S., 11.2020, in : J COSMET DERMATOL-US. 19, 11, S. 3038-3040 3 S.

• How Education and Metacognitive Training May Ameliorate Religious Prejudices: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Moritz, S., Ahmed, K., Krott, N. R., Ohls, I. & Reininger, K. M., 10.2020, in : INT J PSYCHOL RELIG.

• Internet-based self-help for psychosis: Findings from a randomized controlled trial

Westermann, S., Rüegg, N., Lüdtke, T., Moritz, S. & Berger, T., 10.2020 , in: J CONSULT CLIN PSYCH. 88 , 10 , pp. 937-950 14 pp.

• Targeting our Blind Spot: A Metacognitive Intervention Ameliorates Negative Feelings, Evaluations, and Stereotypes Towards Conservatives in a Liberal Sample

Reininger, K. M., Krott, N. R., Hoenisch, M., Scheunemann, J. & Moritz, S., 02.09.2020, in : Journal of Social and Political Psychology. 8, 2, S. 453-482 20 S.

• Immediate and long-term effectiveness of adding an Internet intervention for depression to routine outpatient psychotherapy: Subgroup analysis of the EVIDENT trial

Schuster, R., Laireiter, A-R., Berger, T., Moritz, S., Meyer, B., Hohagen, F. & Klein, J. P., 01.09.2020, in : J AFFECT DISORDERS. 274, S. 643-651 9 S.

• A comparison of the three year course between chronic depression and depression with multiple vs. few prior episodes

Humer, E., Kocsis-Bogar, K., Berger, T., Schröder, J. , Späth, C., Meyer, B., Moritz, S. , Lutz, W., Probst, T. & Klein, JP , 09.2020 , in: PSYCHIAT RES. 291 , p. 113235

• Cognitive biases and psychosis: From bench to bedside

Balzan, R. P. & Moritz, S., 09.2020, in : Schizophrenia Research. 223, S. 368-369 2 S.

• Effort and liberal acceptance bias in patients with schizophrenia

Moritz, S., Scheunemann, J. & Peters, M. J. V., 09.2020, in : COGN NEUROPSYCHIAT. 25, 5, S. 364-370 7 S.

• Long-term effects of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder and residual symptoms after cognitive behavioral therapy: Twelve-month follow-up of a randomized controlled trial

Cludius, B., Landmann, S., Rose, N., Heidenreich, T., Hottenrott, B. , Schröder, J. , Jelinek, L. , Voderholzer, U., Külz, AK & Moritz, S. , 09.2020 , in: PSYCHIAT RES. 291 , p. 113119

• Moderators of treatment efficacy in individualized metacognitive training for psychosis (MCT+)

Leanza, L., Studerus, E., Bozikas, V. P., Moritz, S. & Andreou, C., 09.2020, in : J BEHAV THER EXP PSY. 68, S. 101547

• Biases in diagnostic terminology: Clinicians choose different symptom labels depending on whether the same case is framed as depression or schizophrenia

Meiseberg, J. & Moritz, S., 08.2020, in : SCHIZOPHR RES. 222, S. 444-449 6 S.

• Less self-stigmatization and more empowerment in patients with schizophrenia and comorbid cannabis use disorder compared to non-comorbid schizophrenia

Schnell, T. & Moritz, S., 08.2020, in : SCHIZOPHR RES. 222, S. 523-524 2 S.

• Prolonged rather than hasty decision-making in schizophrenia using the box task. Must we rethink the jumping to conclusions account of paranoia?

Moritz, S., Scheunemann, J., Lüdtke, T., Westermann, S., Pfuhl, G., Balzan, R. P. & Andreou, C., 08.2020, in : SCHIZOPHR RES. 222, S. 202-208 7 S.

• Correction to: Health economic evaluation of an internet intervention for depression (deprexis), a randomized controlled trial

Gräfe, V., Moritz, S. & Greiner, W., 30.07.2020, in : Health Economics Review. 10, 1, S. 24

• Metacognitive Training for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: a study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

Miegel, F., Demiralay, C., Moritz, S., Wirtz, J., Hottenrott, B. & Jelinek, L., 06.07.2020, in : BMC PSYCHIATRY. 20, 1, S. 350

• Health economic evaluation of an internet intervention for depression (deprexis), a randomized controlled trial (please note correction)

Gräfe, V., Moritz, S. & Greiner, W., 16.06.2020, in : Health Economics Review. 10, 1, S. 19

• The treatment of mental disorders with metacognitive interventions using the example of the metacognitive training for depression (D-MCT)]

Dietrichkeit, M., Moritz, S. & Jelinek, L. , June 1st , 2020 , in: Zeitschrift fur Psychiatrie, Psychologie und Psychotherapie. 68 , 3 , pp. 160-170 11 pp.

• Cognitive, cognitive-behavioral, metacognitive. Who else can see through? An update on cognitive psychotherapy approaches [Cognitive, cognitive-behavioral, metacognitive: How to stay on top of things? An update on cognitive interventions]

Jelinek, L. & Moritz, S. , June 1st , 2020 , in: Zeitschrift fur Psychiatrie, Psychologie und Psychotherapie. 68 , 3 , pp. 147-149 3 pp.

• The Working Alliance Inventory for guided Internet interventions (WAI-I)

Gómez Penedo, J. M., Berger, T., grosse Holtforth, M., Krieger, T., Schröder, J., Hohagen, F., Meyer, B., Moritz, S. & Klein, J. P., 01.06.2020, in : Journal of Clinical Psychology. 76, 6, S. 973-986 14 S.

• Gender differences in response to metacognitive training in people with first-episode psychosis

Salas-Sender, M., López-Carrilero, R., Barajas, A., Lorente-Rovira, E., Pousa, E., Barrigón, ML, Grasa, E., Ruiz-Delgado, I., González-Higueras , F., Cid, J., Aznar, A., Pélaez, T., Birulés, I., Moritz, S. , The Spanish Metacognition Study Group & Ochoa, S., 06.2020 , in: J CONSULT CLIN PSYCH. 88 , 6 , S. 516-525 10 S.

• Neurocognitive deficits in schizophrenia are likely to be less severe and less related to the disorder than previously thought

Moritz, S., Silverstein, S. M., Dietrichkeit, M. & Gallinat, J., 06.2020, in : WORLD PSYCHIATRY. 19, 2, S. 254-255 2 S.

• Efficacy and Moderators of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Psychosis Versus Other Psychological Interventions: An Individual-Participant Data Meta-Analysis

Turner, D. T., Reijnders, M., van der Gaag, M., Karyotaki, E., Valmaggia, L. R., Moritz, S., Lecomte, T., Turkington, D., Penadés, R., Elkis, H., Cather, C., Shawyer, F., O'Connor, K., Li, Z-J., de Paiva Barretto, E. M. & Cuijpers, P., 05.05.2020, in : Frontiers in Psychiatry. 11, S. 402

• A transdiagnostic perspective of constructs underlying obsessive-compulsive and related disorders: An international Delphi consensus study

Fontenelle, L. F., Oldenhof, E., Eduarda Moreira-de-Oliveira, M., Abramowitz, J. S., Antony, M. M., Cath, D., Carter, A., Dougherty, D., Ferrão, Y. A., Figee, M., Harrison, B. J., Hoexter, M., Soo Kwon, J., Küelz, A., Lazaro, L., Lochner, C., Marazziti, D., Mataix-Cols, D., McKay, D., Miguel, E. C., Morein-Zamir, S., Moritz, S., Nestadt, G., O'Connor, K., Pallanti, S., Purdon, C., Rauch, S., Richter, P., Rotge, J-Y., Shavitt, R. G., Soriano-Mas, C., Starcevic, V., Stein, D. J., Steketee, G., Storch, E. A., Taylor, S., van den Heuvel, O. A., Veale, D., Woods, D. W., Verdejo-Garcia, A. & Yücel, M., 04.05.2020, in : AUST NZ J PSYCHIAT. 54, 7, S. 719-731 13 S.

• Mindfulness Mediates the Effect of a Psychological Online Intervention for Psychosis on Self-Reported Hallucinations: A Secondary Analysis of Voice Hearers From the EviBaS Trial

Lüdtke, T., Platow-Kohlschein, H. , Rüegg, N., Berger, T., Moritz, S. & Westermann, S., April 3rd , 2020 , in: Frontiers in Psychiatry. 11 , p. 228

• Effects of intense assessment on statistical power in randomized controlled trials: Simulation study on depression

Schuster, R., Schreyer, M. L., Kaiser, T., Berger, T., Klein, J. P., Moritz, S., Laireiter, A-R. & Trutschnig, W., 04.2020, in : Internet Interv. 20, S. 100313

• Brief Web-Based Intervention for Depression: Randomized Controlled Trial on Behavioral Activation

Jelinek, L. , Arlt, S., Moritz, S. , Schröder, J. , Westermann, S. & Cludius, B., March 26 , 2020 , in: J MED INTERNET RES. 22 , 3 , p. E15312

• The Association of Therapeutic Alliance With Long-Term Outcome in a Guided Internet Intervention for Depression: Secondary Analysis From a Randomized Control Trial

Gómez Penedo, J. M., Babl, A. M., Grosse Holtforth, M., Hohagen, F., Krieger, T., Lutz, W., Meyer, B., Moritz, S., Klein, J. P. & Berger, T., 24.03.2020, in : J MED INTERNET RES. 22, 3, S. e15824

• Pill or needle? Determinants of the preference for long-acting injection over oral treatment in people facing chronic illness

Berna, F., Göritz, A. S., Behr, G. & Moritz, S., 02.03.2020, in : PROG NEURO-PSYCHOPH. 98, S. 109798

• Using virtual reality to explore differences in memory biases and cognitive insight in people with psychosis and healthy controls

Dietrichkeit, M., Grzella, K., Nagel, M. & Moritz, S., 03.2020, in : Psychiatry Research. 285, 112787.

• Changes in the daily life experience of patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder following mindfulness-based cognitive therapy: Looking beyond symptom reduction using ecological momentary assessment

Landmann, S., Cludius, B., Tuschen-Caffier, B., Moritz, S. & Külz, AK, February 3 , 2020 , in: PSYCHIAT RES. 286 , p. 112842

• Advice weighting as a novel measure for belief flexibility in people with psychotic-like experiences

Scheunemann, J., Gawęda, Ł., Reininger, K-M., Jelinek, L., Hildebrandt, H. & Moritz, S., 02.2020, in : SCHIZOPHR RES. 216, S. 129-137 9 S.

• Do interpersonal fears mediate the association between childhood maltreatment and interpersonal skills deficits? A matched cross-sectional analysis

Klein, JP, Stahl, J., Hüppe, M., McCullough, JP, Schramm, E., Ortel, D., Sondermann, S., Schröder, J. , Moritz, S. & Schweiger, U., 02.2020 , in: PSYCHOTHER RES. 30 , 2 , pp. 267-278 12 pp.

• Functional brain networks underlying evidence integration and delusional ideation

Lavigne, K. M., Menon, M., Moritz, S. & Woodward, T. S., 02.2020, in : SCHIZOPHR RES. 216, S. 302-309 8 S.

• Identifying change-dropout patterns during an Internet-based intervention for depression by applying the Muthen-Roy model

Arndt, A., Lutz, W., Rubel, J., Berger, T., Meyer, B., Schröder, J. , Späth, C., Hautzinger, M., Fuhr, K., Rose, M., Hohagen, F., Klein, JP & Moritz, S. , 01.2020 , in: COGN BEHAV THERAPY. 49 , 1 , pp. 22-40 19 pp.

• Effects and side effects of a transdiagnostic bias modification intervention in a mixed sample with obsessive-compulsive and/or depressive symptoms-a randomized controlled trial

Moritz, S., Bernardini, J. & Lion, D., 2020, in : EUR ARCH PSY CLIN N. 270, 8, S. 1025-1036

• Escaping the mouth-trap: Recovery from long-term pathological lip/cheek biting (morsicatio buccarum, cavitadaxia) using decoupling

Moritz, S., Müller, K. & Schmotz, S., 2020, in : J OBSESS-COMPULS REL. 25, S. 100530

• Imaginal retraining reduces cigarette smoking: A randomized controlled study.

Moritz, S., Göritz, A. S., Kraj, M., Gehlenborg, J., Hottenrott, B., Tonn, P., Ascone, L., Pedersen, A. & Kühn, S., 2020, in : EUR ADDICT RES. 26, S. 355–364

• Lifestyle Variables Do Not Predict Subjective Memory Performance Over and Above Depression and Anxiety

Mascherek, A., Werkle, N., Göritz, A. S., Kühn, S. & Moritz, S., 2020, in : FRONT PSYCHOL. 11, S. 484

• Objective Versus Subjective Effort in Schizophrenia

Kreis, I., Moritz, S. & Pfuhl, G., 2020, in : FRONT PSYCHOL. 11, S. 1469

• Prenatal sex hormones and finger length: Digit ratio (2D:4D) as a biological marker of early developmental processes in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).

Nitsche, K., Moritz, S. & Jelinek, L., 2020, in : J OBSESS-COMPULS REL. 2020, 25, S. 100525

• Preoperational Thinking as a Measure of Social Cognition Is Associated With Long-Term Course of Depressive Symptoms. A Longitudinal Study Involving Patients With Depression and Healthy Controls

Sondermann, S., Stahl, J., Grave, U., Outzen, J., Moritz, S. & Klein, J. P., 2020, in : Frontiers in Psychiatry. 11, S. 652

• Social phobia moderates the outcome in the EVIDENT study, a randomized controlled trial on an Internet-based psychological intervention for mild to moderate depressive symptoms.

Probst, T., Berger, T., Meyer, B., Späth, C., Schröder, J., Hohagen, F., Moritz, S. & Klein, J. P., 2020, in : J CONSULT CLIN PSYCH. 88, 1, S. 82-89

• Unguided internet-based cognitive-behavioural therapy for obsessive-compulsive disorder: A randomized controlled trial

Schröder, J., Werkle, N., Cludius, B., Jelinek, L., Moritz, S. & Westermann, S., 2020, in : DEPRESS ANXIETY. 37, 12

• Virtual Reality for Individuals with Occasional Paranoid Thoughts

Ascone, L., Ney, K., Mostajeran, F., Steinicke, F., Moritz, S., Gallinat, J. & Kühn, S., 2020, CHI EA '20: Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 1 Aufl. S. 1-8 8 S. (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems).

• Imaginal retraining decreases craving for high-calorie food in overweight and obese women. A randomized controlled trial

Moritz, S., Göritz, A. S., Schmotz, S., Weierstall-Pust, R., Gehlenborg, J., Gallinat, J. & Kühn, S., 28.11.2019, in : TRANSL PSYCHIAT. 9, 1, S. 319

• Symptom-specific effectiveness of an internet-based intervention in the treatment of mild to moderate depressive symptomatology. The potential of network estimation techniques

Boschloo, L., Cuijpers, P., Karyotaki, E., Berger, T., Moritz, S., Meyer, B. & Klein, J. P., 11.2019, in : BEHAV RES THER. 122, S. 103440

• Metacognition Research in Psychosis: Uncovering and Adjusting the Prisms That Distort Subjective Reality

Moritz, S. & Lysaker, P. H., 23.10.2019, in : SCHIZOPHRENIA BULL. 45, S. 17-18

• Diminishing Effects After Recurrent Use of Self-Guided Internet-Based Interventions in Depression: Randomized Controlled Trial

Bücker, L., Schnakenberg, P., Karyotaki, E., Moritz, S. & Westermann, S., 02.10.2019, in : J MED INTERNET RES. 21, 10, S. e14240

• Four reasons why early detection centers for psychosis should be renamed and their treatment targets reconsidered: we should not catastrophize a future we can neither reliably predict nor change

Moritz, S., Gawęda, Ł., Heinz, A. & Gallinat, J., 10.2019, in : PSYCHOL MED. 49, 13, S. 2134-2140 7 S.

• Mindfulness predicts insight in obsessive-compulsive disorder over and above OC symptoms. An experience-sampling study

Landmann, S., Cludius, B., Tuschen-Caffier, B., Moritz, S. & Külz, A. K., 10.2019, in : BEHAV RES THER. 121, S. 103449

• Imaginal retraining reduces alcohol craving in problem drinkers: A randomized controlled trial

Moritz, S., Paulus, A. M., Hottenrott, B., Weierstall, R., Gallinat, J. & Kühn, S., 09.2019, in : J BEHAV THER EXP PSY. 64, S. 158-166 9 S.

• Long-term efficacy of Metacognitive Training for Depression (D-MCT): A randomized controlled trial

Jelinek, L., Faissner, M., Moritz, S. & Kriston, L., 09.2019, in : BRIT J CLIN PSYCHOL. 58, 3, S. 245-259 15 S.

• Metacognitive and cognitive-behavioral interventions for psychosis: new developments


Moritz, S., Klein, J. P., Lysaker, P. H. & Mehl, S., 09.2019, in : Dialogues Clin Neurosci. 21, 3, S. 309-317 9 S.

• Post-psychotic depression. Paranoia and the damage done

Moritz, S., Schmidt, S. J., Lüdtke, T., Braunschneider, L-E., Manske, A., Schneider, B. C. & Veckstenstedt, R., 09.2019, in : SCHIZOPHR RES. 211, S. 79-85 7 S.

• It can’t hurt, right? Adverse effects of psychotherapy in patients with depression

Moritz, S., Nestoriuc, Y., Rief, W., Klein, J. P., Jelinek, L. & Peth, J., 08.2019, in : EUR ARCH PSY CLIN N. 269, 5, S. 577-586 10 S.

• Does uncertainty breed conviction? On the possible role of compensatory conviction in jumping to conclusions and overconfidence in psychosis

Moritz, S., Stojisavlevic, M., Göritz, A. S., Riehle, M. & Scheunemann, J., 07.2019, in : COGN NEUROPSYCHIAT. 24, 4, S. 284-299 16 S.

• Liberal Acceptance Bias, Momentary Aberrant Salience, and Psychosis: An Experimental Experience Sampling Study

Reininghaus, U., Oorschot, M., Moritz, S., Gayer-Anderson, C., Kempton, M. J., Valmaggia, L., McGuire, P., Murray, R., Garety, P., Wykes, T., Morgan, C. & Myin-Germeys, I., 18.06.2019, in : SCHIZOPHRENIA BULL. 45, 4, S. 871-882 12 S.