Bertsch Lab - Uni Wuerzburg
@bertsch-lab.bsky.social
Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy Section @uniwuerzburg.bsky.social || Headed by Katja Bertsch ||Translational Research with a Focus on Social Interaction Processes and Mental Health
📢 Come join our team! 💼 We're looking for a Head of the Outpatient Center for Psychotherapy Section Children and Adolescents (f/m/d) at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg. 🔹 Full-time or part-time 🔹 TV-L E14 🔹 4-year appointment, prospect of a permanent position tinyurl.com/yu7k62a4
Aktuelle Stellenangebote
Leitung der Hochschulambulanz für Kinder und Jugendliche in Voll- oder Teilzeit (TV-L E14)
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Three Teaching Awards for Department 1! 🏆🏆🏆 Congratulations to Prof. Dr. Katja Bertsch, Prof. Dr. Matthias Gamer, and Dr. Johanna Popp. Thank you for your outstanding dedication to our students! 🎓🧠✨ @bertsch-lab.bsky.social @gamerlab.bsky.social @johannapopp.bsky.social
🎉 Congratulations to Dr. Celina Müller and her co-authors on receiving the #OpenScience Award at #DPK2026! 🏆🔬 Their eye-tracking research on attentional processes in OCD highlights the value of transparent and reproducible clinical science. 👏 Well deserved! @celinalianemueller.bsky.social
Our team joined the nationwide Protest Day 4.0 in Würzburg. 📣🧠 On saturday, people across Germany took to the streets to protest the 4.5% cuts to outpatient psychotherapy reimbursement. #psychotherapy #honorarkürzungpsychotherapie #honorarkürzung #honorarkürzungen
Great opening of the inspiring exhibition "Pioneers of Psychology" at the ZGP! #pioneersofpsychology #psychology #uniwuerzburg #womeninscience #ZPG
Excited to share that our new paper on causal attributions and their role in the formation of self-beliefs is finally out! www.nature.com/articles/s44... Huge thanks to @annalinavmayer.bsky.social, @soerenkrach.bsky.social, @tobikube.bsky.social, @david-s-stolz.bsky.social and the whole team!
Causal attributions shape the formation of novel ability self-beliefs - Communications Psychology
Using computational modeling, this study shows that causal attributions are associated with how people form ability beliefs. Lower self-esteem and higher depressive symptoms were linked to stronger ne...
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Super excited to have this paper finally published! 🎉 Using an immersive VR foraging paradigm, we show that different human defensive states can be distinguished across movement, physiology, and subjective experience, rather than being treated as a single "freezing" response. @gamerlab.bsky.social
Unraveling the behavioral and autonomic dynamics of defensive states in humans in an unconstrained, immersive virtual world
Defensive responses to threats are crucial for mental and physical health. Animal studies highlight different defense modes related to threat proximit…
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Wir sind stolz auf unsere Läufer:innen aus Lehrstuhl 1! 🏃♀️🏃♂️ Beim WVV (Halb-)Marathon waren zahlreiche Einzelstarter:innen und sogar eine lehrstuhlübergreifende Staffel dabei. Starke 3:49 h für unser Team! 🎉 #WVVMarathon #UniWürzburg #TeamSpirit @sabrinagado.bsky.social @ecemtavacioglu.bsky.social
Invitation to all students and staff! 🍊 Summer Festival of the Institute of Psychology 16 June · from 6 pm · Courtyard, Röntgenring 10 Aperol €3.50 ☀️ bring your own cup!
👋We’re excited to welcome our new team members: Maxi Stiller, Alexander Schröder, Charlotte Erlinghagen, Lea Hildebrandt, and Luisa Straubmeier🎉 Great to have you with us – we’re looking forward to working together!🚀 @leahilde.bsky.social @luisastraubmeier.bsky.social #TeamUpdate #Welcome #Research
👋✨ Farewell to Johanna and Valentina after many years in our lab! @johannapopp.bsky.social @glueck-v.bsky.social Thank you both for your dedication, hard work, and the great moments—your contributions made a difference. 🧠 Wishing you all the best for what’s next! 🚀 #Team #Research #NextChapter
🎓✨ Congrats to Johanna on successfully defending her dissertation! @johannapopp.bsky.social Her work explored individual differences from a network neuroscience perspective—shedding light on how brain networks shape who we are 🧠 Amazing achievement! 👏 #PhD #Neuroscience #Research
🧠🔬 How reliable is research? A new Nature study shows: analytical variability matters. It’s not just the data, but how we analyze it. www.nature.com/articles/s41... Great to see Martin Weiß from our chair involved 👏 @martinweiss.bsky.social #Science #OpenScience
Investigating the analytical robustness of the social and behavioural sciences - Nature
When 100 social and behavioural science claims were examined, 34% of reanalyses closely matched the original results, with 74% reaching the same conclusion, revealing limited robustness of single...
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Over 500 people took to the streets in Würzburg to protest planned cuts to psychotherapists’ fees. Their message: Mental health matters to everyone. www.mainpost.de/wuerzburg/st...
Würzburg, March 25, 2026, 4:30 PM (start: Eichhornstraße): Protest against cuts to psychotherapy fees, highlighting risks to mental health care access.
Promoting health in Würzburg: Psychology students at the University of Würzburg evaluated local political parties ahead of the municipal elections. www.mainpost.de/franken/wuer...
Gesundheitsförderung in Würzburg: Studierende der Psychologie prüften zur Kommunalwahl die Parteien
Kommunen sollen sich um die Gesundheit vor Ort kümmern. Was ist zu tun? Studierende der Uni Würzburg wollten es mit Fragebögen zur Stadtratswahl herausfinden.
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Am 28. März um 15:00 Uhr gehen wir bundesweit auf die Straße. Gegen die Kürzung der psychotherapeutischen Honorare um 4,5 %. Weitere Informationen hier: www.protesttag.de#staedte Damit aus Honoraren keine Hohnorare werden! #Psychotherapie #Protesttag #Hohnorare #Versorgung
protesttag.de – Bundesweiter Protesttag
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Call for papers on aggression and antisociality📢🔗
Spannendes Projekt an unserem Lehrstuhl!🙌 Erprobung von KI-gestütztem Therapie-Training in Virtual Reality 🗣️👓 www.uni-wuerzburg.de/aktuelles/ei... @sabrinagado.bsky.social @isabelneumann.bsky.social @Daniel Gromer
KI-Patientinnen und -Patienten für die Ausbildung in Psychotherapie
Am Lehrstuhl für Klinische Psychologie und Psychotherapie entsteht ein virtueller Übungsraum, in dem Studierende therapeutische Gespräche mit einem KI-generierten Gegenüber trainieren können.
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Interesting read!📰⬇️🔗 www.mainpost.de/franken/wuer... 🖊️Andreas Jungbauer
Mehr Psychotherapie dringend nötig: Wie der Nachwuchs in Deutschland gerade ausgebremst wird
Psychotherapeuten und Psychotherapeutinnen sollen wie Fachärzte ausgebildet werden. Doch Stellen dafür fehlen und die Finanzierung ist ungeklärt. Wo es hakt.
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We had a wonderful evening celebrating the official opening of the Outpatient Center for Psychotherapy Section Children and Adolescents!🥂🎉 Thank you to everyone who joined us - we're looking forward to what's ahead! @anrei.bsky.social @kabertsch.bsky.social
🎉Invitation: Opening Ceremony You are warmly invited to join the official opening of the University Outpatient Center for Psychotherapy Section Children and Adolescents at the University of Würzburg! 🗓️January 21, 2026 at 5:00 pm 📍Oswald-Külpe Lecture Hall, Röntgenring 12, 97070 Würzburg
Impressions from our Christmas party yesterday🎄🌟. We had a lot of fun celebrating everything we accomplished this year! Wishing everyone happy holidays and a great start to the new year!🤶🎅🎆
🔎Zwangssymptome strukturiert, gut und schnell erfassen?🧠 Dafür haben @celinalianemueller.bsky.social & Kolleg:innen 📗 das 12-Item Zwangsinventar (OCI-12; tinyurl.com/oci-12) & 📘 das ultra-kurze 4-Item Zwangsinventar (OCI-4; tinyurl.com/oci-4-screener) auf deutsch übersetzt & frei verfügbar gemacht.
Translation and Validation of the German 12-Item Obsessive-Compulsive Inventory (OCI-12) in Clinical and Non-Clinical Samples| Clinical Psychology in Europe
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Congrats to Katja and Andrea!🎉 Their project on mental health and social integration, which aims to advance treatment options for adolescents and young adults with social deficits, has earned a research award from the Vogel Stiftung!🏆👏 @kabertsch.bsky.social @anrei.bsky.social
We're sooo proud and happy to share that our colleage Johanna Popp was awarded the NeuroImage Editor's Choice Award. Learn more about Johanna and the paper, which is part of her PhD project: www.sciencedirect.com/journal/neur... The paper is linked there, too. Congrats, @johannapopp.bsky.social ! 🎊🎊
Another great opportunity to join our group!💼🙌 We're looking for an Akademische Rätin/Akademischer Rat (A13) auf Zeit!
11 days left to apply!💼⏰ Spread the word 📣
Bertsch Lab - Uni Wuerzburg@bertsch-lab.bsky.social · 10mo agoWe're further expanding our team!💼 An Akademische Rätin/Akademischer Rat (A13) position is now open in our group - check out the details below and feel free to share!🙌 #ClinicalPsychology #JobOpening
📅 November 26th: Study Day on Anger at the Faculty of Catholic Theology. More information 👉 www.theologie.uni-wuerzburg.de/fileadmin/01...
