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Jessica Werthmann

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Articles 29
Citations 502
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Nutritional Sciences
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Anne Roefs
Anita Jansen
Ulrike Schmidt
Iain C Campbell
Chantal Nederkoorn
Fritz Renner
Daniela Mercado
Brunna Tuschen-Caffier
Matt Field
Jennifer Svaldi
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Appetite
Clin Psychol Eur
Health Psychol
Eat Behav
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Recent Articles
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Imagine for tomorrow, what you cannot feel now - The role of anhedonia in imagery-enhanced behavioral activation
Heise M, Ji J, Werthmann J, Renner F
Behav Res Ther . 2025 Mar; 187:104707. PMID: 40054413
Preliminary evidence suggests that mental imagery-based elaboration of rewarding activities enhances anticipated pleasure, motivation, and behavioral engagement in non-clinical samples, but its effects in individuals experiencing anhedonia (loss of pleasure/interest)...
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Mirror Exposure Training for Adolescents With Anorexia Nervosa (MIRADAN): Cognitive Mechanisms of Body Disturbance - A Study Protocol
Pelzer M, Werthmann J, Fleischhaker C, Svaldi J, Tuschen-Caffier B
Clin Psychol Eur . 2024 Feb; 5(4):e11277. PMID: 38357429
Background: Anorexia Nervosa (AN) is a severe mental illness, which typically develops in adolescence and, if left untreated, often becomes chronic. Body dissatisfaction is a core characteristic of AN. Mirror...
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Skill Improvement Through Learning in Therapy (SKILT): A Study Protocol for a Randomized Trial Testing the Direct Effects of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Skill Acquisition and Role of Learning Capacity in Depression
Bruijniks S, Frank U, Tuschen-Caffier B, Werthmann J, Renner F
Clin Psychol Eur . 2023 Apr; 5(1):e8475. PMID: 37065002
Background: To improve psychological treatments for major depressive disorder (MDD), a better understanding on how symptoms ameliorate during treatment is essential. In cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), it is unclear whether...
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A randomised controlled feasibility study of food-related computerised attention training versus mindfulness training and waiting-list control for adults with overweight or obesity: the FOCUS study
Mercado D, Werthmann J, Antunes-Duarte T, Campbell I, Schmidt U
J Eat Disord . 2023 Apr; 11(1):61. PMID: 37046356
Background: In a feasibility randomised controlled trial in people with overweight/obesity with and without binge eating disorder (BED) symptoms, we assessed eight weekly sessions of attention bias modification training (ABMT)...
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Healthy cravings? Impact of imagined healthy food consumption on craving for healthy foods and motivation to eat healthily - Results of an initial experimental study
Werthmann J, Tuschen-Caffier B, Strobele L, Kubel S, Renner F
Appetite . 2023 Jan; 183:106458. PMID: 36638961
Craving for high-calorie foods predicts consumption of high-calorie foods thereby contributing to unhealthy eating habits and, potentially in the long term, to the development of overweight, obesity, and eating disorder...
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Body Exposure, its Forms of Delivery and Potentially Associated Working Mechanisms: How to Move the Field Forward
Hartmann A, Naumann E, Vocks S, Svaldi J, Werthmann J
Clin Psychol Eur . 2022 Nov; 3(3):e3813. PMID: 36398104
Background: Body image disturbance (BID) is a hallmark feature of eating disorders (EDs) and has proven to be involved in their etiology and maintenance. Therefore, the targeting of BID in...
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Prospective Mental Imagery in Depression: Impact on Reward Processing and Reward-Motivated Behaviour
Renner F, Werthmann J, Paetsch A, Bar H, Heise M, Bruijniks S
Clin Psychol Eur . 2022 Nov; 3(2):e3013. PMID: 36397959
Background: Mental imagery has long been part of cognitive behavioural therapies. More recently, a resurgence of interest has emerged for prospective mental imagery, i.e. future-directed imagery-based thought, and its relation...
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The traces of imagination: early attention bias toward positively imagined stimuli
Bar H, Werthmann J, Paetsch A, Renner F
Psychol Res . 2022 Sep; 87(5):1475-1483. PMID: 36125531
Positively imagined activities may capture visual attention due to an increase in positive value. Increasing attention toward activities, in turn, may prove useful for clinical interventions aiming to motivate behavioral...
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The outcomes of mindfulness-based interventions for Obesity and Binge Eating Disorder: A meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials
Mercado D, Robinson L, Gordon G, Werthmann J, Campbell I, Schmidt U
Appetite . 2021 Jun; 166:105464. PMID: 34146647
Background: Mindfulness Based Interventions (MBIs) for weight loss and overeating-related behaviours have recently gained popularity. Previous systematic reviews and meta-analyses included studies of variable quality, which hinders interpretation of results....
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Food-related attentional bias and its associations with appetitive motivation and body weight: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Hardman C, Jones A, Burton S, Duckworth J, McGale L, Mead B, et al.
Appetite . 2020 Oct; 157:104986. PMID: 33039507
Theoretical models suggest that food-related visual attentional bias (AB) may be related to appetitive motivational states and individual differences in body weight; however, findings in this area are equivocal. We...