PD Dr. Charlotte Wittekind

Motka F, Kühn S, Wittekind C. E. Deficits in general and smoking-specific response inhibition in the Go/No-Go task in individuals who smoke: A cross-sectional analysis. Addiction. 2025. https://doi.org/10.1111/add.70003

Motka, F.*, Wittekind, C. E.*, Ascone, L. & Kühn, S. (2025). Efficacy and working mechanisms of a Go/No-Go task-based Inhibition training in smoking: A randomized-controlled trial. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 185, 104672.
* shared first authorship

Vogel, L., Löchner, J., Opitz, A., Ehring, T., Lux, U., Henning, C., Liel, C. & Wittekind, C. E. (2025). Shadows of the past – Hierarchical regression analyses on the role of childhood maltreatment experiences for postpartum depression. Journal of Affective Disorders, 371, 82-90.

Soutschek, A. & Wittekind, C. E. (2024). Lower motivation for rewarded mental effort in nicotine dependence. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology, 32, 615-623.

Twardawski, M., Gollwitzer, M., Altenmüller, M. S., Bertsch, K., Lobbestael, J., Philippi, A. L. E. & Wittekind, C. E. (2024). Victim empowerment and satisfaction: The potential of Imagery Rescripting. European Journal of Social Psychology, 54, 1182-1197.

Vrijsen, J. N., Grafton, B*., Hallion, L. S.*, Koster, E. H. W.*, Lau, J.*, Wittekind, C. E.*, Bar-Haim, Y., … Wiers, R. W. (2024). Towards implementation of Cognitive Bias Modification in mental health care: State of the science, best practices and ways forward. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 179, 104557.
* shared secondary authorship

Stefanovic, M., Takano, K., Wittekind, C. E. & Ehring, T. (2024). Dynamic symptom associations in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: A network approach. European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 15, 1, 2317675.

Werner, G. G., Göhre, I., Takano, K., Ehring. T., Wittekind, C. E. & Stefanovic, M. (2024). Temporal associations between trauma-related sleep disturbances and PTSD symptoms: An experience sampling study. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice and Policy, 16, 846-854.

Claus, N., Takano, K. & Wittekind, C. E. (2023). The interplay between cognitive biases, attention control, and social anxiety symptoms: A network and cluster approach. PLoS ONE, 18, 4, e0282259
Frommelt, T., Traykova, M., Platt, B.* & Wittekind, C. E.* (2023). The influence of outcome expectancy on interpretation bias training in social anxiety: An experimental pilot study. Pilot and Feasibility Studies, 9, 144.
* shared last authorship

Wittekind, C. E., Schiebel, T. & Kühn. S. (2023). Reliability of and associations between different cognitive bia measures and response inhibition in smoking. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 101853.

Ehring, T., Herzog, E., Wittekind, C. E. & Wolkenstein, L. (2022). Imagery Rescripting in der Behandlung der Posttraumatischen Belastungsstörung. Verhaltenstherapie, 32, 128–138.

Ehring, T., Limburg, K., Kunze, A.E., Wittekind, C. E., Werner, G.G., Guzey, M. & Cludius, B. (2022). (When and how) does basic research in clinical psychology lead to more effective psychological treatment for mental disorders? Clinical Psychology Review, 95, 102163.

Soutschek, A., Bulley, A. & Wittekind, C. E. (2022). Metacognitive deficits are associated with lower sensitivity to preference reversals in nicotine dependence. Scientific Reports, 12, 19787.

Stefanovic, M., Ehring, T., Wittekind, C. E., Kleim, B., Rohde, J., Krüger-Gottschalk, A., Knaevelsrud, C., Rau, H., Schäfer, I., Schellong, J., Dyer, A. & Takano, K. (2022). Comparing PTSD symptom networks in type I vs. type II trauma survivors. European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 13, 2114260.

Wittekind., C. E., Takano, K., Sckopke, P., Winkler, M., Werner, G. G., Ehring, T. & Rüther, T. (2022). Efficacy of Approach Bias Modification as an add-on in smoking cessation: Study protocol of a randomized-controlled double-blind trial. Trials, 23, 223.

Woud. M. L., Wittekind, C. E. & Würtz, F. (2022). Cognitive Bias Modification bei Symptomen der Posttraumatischen Belastungsstörung (PTBS). Verhaltenstherapie, 32, 139–147.

Strohm, M., Siegesleitner, M., Kunze, A., Ehring, T. & Wittekind, C. E. (2021). Imagery Rescripting versus Cognitive Restructuring in social anxiety: Treatment effects and working mechanisms. Clinical Psychology in Europe, 3, e5303.

Strohm, M., Siegesleitner, M., Kunze, A., Werner, G.G., Ehring, T. & Wittekind, C. E. (2021). Psychological and physiological effects of imagery rescripting for aversive autobiographical memories. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 45, 1093–1104.

Twardawski, M., Gollwitzer, M., Altenmüller, M. S., Kunze, A. & Wittekind, C. E. (2021). Imagery rescripting helps victims cope with experienced injustice. Zeitschrift für Psychologie, 229, 178-184.

Wittekind, C. E., Blechert, J., Schiebel, T., Lender, A., Kahveci, S. & Kühn, S. (2021). Comparison of different response devices to assess behavioral tendencies towards chocolate in the Approach-Avoidance Task. Appetite, 165: 105294

Moritz, S., Bücker, L., Wittekind, C. E., Gawęda, L. & Gehlenborg, J (2021). The dimensional structure of the Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale for Pathological Gambling: functional differences between true compulsions and compulsive behavior. International Gambling Studies, 21, 92-102.

Moritz, S., Gehlenborg, J. Bierbrodt, J., Wittekind, C. E.* & Bücker; L.* (2021). A ghost in the machine? The predictive role of metacognitive beliefs, cognitive biases, and machine-related features in the severity of problematic slot machine gambling. Personality & Individual Differences, 171, 110539.
* shared last authorship

Takano, K., Taylor, C. S., Wittekind, C. E., Sakamomto, J. & Ehring, T. (2021). Disentangling temporal dynamics in attention bias from measurement error: a state-space modeling approach. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 131, 198-210.

Siegesleitner, M., Strohm, M., Wittekind, C. E., Ehring, T. & Kunze, A. (2020). Improving imagery rescripting treatments: Comparing an active versus passive approach. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 69, 101578.

Strohm, M., Siegesleitner, M., Kunze, A., Ehring, T. & Wittekind, C. E. (2019). Imagery Rescripting of aversive autobiographical memories: Effects on memory distress, emotions, and feelings of mastery. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 43, 1005-1017. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10608-019-10021-2

Turner, D., Wittekind, C. E., Briken, P., Fromberger, P., Moritz, S. & Rettenberger, M. (2019). Approach and avoidance biases toward sexual stimuli and their association with the dual control model of sexual response in heterosexual men. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 48, 867-880.

Wittekind, C. E., Lüdecke, D. & Cludius, B. (2019). Web-based approach bias modification in smokers: a randomized-controlled study. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 116, 52-60.

Cludius, B., Wenzlaff, F., Briken, P. & Wittekind, C. E. (2019). Attentional biases of vigilance and maintenance in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: An eye-tracking study. Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders, 10, 30-38.

Wittekind, C. E., Bierbrodt, J., Lüdecke, D., Feist, A., Hand, I. & Moritz, S. (2019). Cognitive Bias Modification in problem and pathological gambling using a web-based Approach-Avoidance Task: A Pilot Trial. Psychiatry Research, 272, 171-181.

Wittekind, C. E., Enders, E., Ehring. T., Pogarell, O. & Rüther, T. (2019). Approach-Avoidance Modification as an add-on in smoking cessation: A randomized controlled study. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 114, 35-43.

Bücker, L., Bierbrodt, J., Hand, I., Wittekind, C. E. & Moritz, S. (2018). Correction: Effects of a depression-focused internet intervention in slot machine gamblers: A randomized controlled trial. PLoS ONE, 13, e0203145.

Bücker, L., Bierbrodt, J., Hand, I., Wittekind, C. E. & Moritz, S. (2018). Effects of a depression-focused internet intervention in slot machine gamblers: a randomized controlled trial. PLoS ONE, 13, e0198859.

Siegesleitner, M., Strohm, M., Wittekind, C. E., Ehring, T. & Kunze, A. (2018). Effects of Imagery Rescripting on consolidated memories of a trauma film. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 62, 22-29.

Andreou, C., Wittekind, C. E., Fieker, M. Heitz, U., Veckenstedt, R., Bohn. F. & Moritz, S. (2017). Individualized metacognitive therapy for delusions: A randomized controlled rater-blind study. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 56, 144-151.

Cludius, B., Külz, A., Landmann, S., Moritz, S. & Wittekind, C. E. (2017). Implicit approach and avoidance in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 126, 761-773.

Weil, R., Feist, A., Moritz, S. & Wittekind, C. E. (2017). Approaching contamination-related stimuli with an implicit Approach-Avoidance Task: Can it reduce OCD symptoms? An online pilot study. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 57, 180-188.

Wittekind, C. E.*, Jelinek, L.*, Kleim, B., Muhtz, C., Moritz, S. & Berna, F. (2017). Age effect on autobiographical memory specificity: A study on autobiographical memory specificity in elderly survivors of childhood trauma. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 54, 247-253.
* shared first authorship

Wittekind, C. E., Muhtz, C., Moritz, S. & Jelinek, L. (2017). Investigation of implicit avoidance of displacement-related stimuli in offspring of trauma exposed, forcibly-displaced individuals. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 47, 21-28.

Wittekind, C. E., Muhtz, C., Moritz, S. & Jelinek, L. (2017). Performance in a blocked versus randomized emotional Stroop task in an aged, early traumatized group with and without posttraumatic stress symptoms. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 54, 35-43.

Muhtz, C., Wittekind, C. E., Godemann, K., von Alm., C., Jelinek, L., Yassouridis, A. & Kellner, M. (2016). Mental health in offspring of traumatized refugees with and without post-traumatic stress disorder. Stress and Health, 32, 367-373.

Wittekind, C. E., Jelinek, L., Moritz, S., Muhtz, C. & Berna, F. (2016). Autobiographical memory in adult offspring of traumatized parents with and without posttraumatic stress symptoms. Psychiatry Research, 242, 311-314.

Jelinek, L., Hauschildt, M., Wittekind, C. E., Schneider, B. C., Kriston, L. & Moritz, S. (2016). Efficacy of metacognitive training for depression: A randomized controlled trial. Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, 85, 231-234.

Ussorio, D., Giusti, L., Wittekind, C. E., Bianchi, V., Malavolta, M., Pollice, R…. Ronconce, R. (2016). Metacognitive training for young subjects (MCT young version) in the early stages of psychosis: Is the duration of untreated psychosis a limiting factor? Psychology and Psychotherapy, 89, 50-65.

Schneider, B. C., Wittekind, C. E., Talhof, A., Korrelboom, K. & Moritz, S. (2015). Competitive Memory Training (COMET) for OCD: A self-treatment approach to obsessions. Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, 44, 142-152.

Wittekind, C. E., Behmer, F., Muhtz, C., Fritzsche, A., Moritz, S. & Jelinek, L. (2015). Investigation of automatic avoidance in displaced individuals with chronic posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Psychiatry Research, 228, 887-893.

Wittekind, C. E., Feist, A., Schneider, B. C., Moritz, S. & Fritzsche, A. (2015). The Approach-Avoidance Task as a self-help intervention in cigarette smoking: A pilot study. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 46, 115-120.

Wittekind, C. E., Muhtz, C., Jelinek, L. & Moritz, S. (2015). Depression, not PTSD, is associated with attentional biases for emotional visual cues in early traumatized individuals with PTSD. Frontiers in Psychology, 5, 1474.

Moritz, S., Andreou, C., Schneider, B. C., Wittekind, C. E., Menon, M., Balzan, R. P. & Woodward, T. S. (2014). Sowing the seeds of doubt: A narrative review on metacognitive training in schizophrenia. Clinical Psychology Review, 4, 358-366.

Wittekind, C. E., Terfehr, K., Otte, C., Jelinek, L., Hinkelmann, K. & Moritz, S. (2014). Mood-congruent memory in depression - the influence of personal relevance and emotional context. Psychiatry Research, 215, 606-613.

Jelinek, L., Wittekind, C. E., Kellner, M., Moritz, S. & Muhtz, C. (2013). (Meta)cognitive beliefs in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) following forced displacement after World War II in older adults and their offspring. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, 18, 452-462.

Jelinek, L., Wittekind, C. E., Moritz, S., Kellner, M. & Muhtz, C. (2013). Neuropsychological functioning in posttraumatic stress disorder following forced displacement in older adults and their offspring. Psychiatry Research, 210, 584-589.

Hauschildt, M., Wittekind, C., Jelinek, L., Kellner, M. & Moritz, S. (2013). Attentional bias to affective visual stimuli in posttraumatic stress disorder and the role of depression. Psychiatry Research, 207, 73-79.

Moritz, S., Fricke, S., Treszl, A. & Wittekind, C. E. (2012). Do it yourself! Evaluation of self-help habit reversal training versus decoupling in pathological skin picking: A pilot study. Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders, 1, 41-47.

Moritz, S., Schilling, L., Wingenfeld, K., Köther, U., Wittekind, C., Terfehr, K. & Spitzer, C. (2011). Psychotic-like cognitive biases in borderline personality disorder. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 42, 349-354.

Moritz, S., Wittekind, C. E., Hauschildt, M. & Timpano, K. R. (2011). Do it yourself? Self-help and online therapy for people with obsessive-compulsive disorder. Current Opinion in Psychiatry, 24, 541-548.

Muhtz, C., Godemann, K., von Alm, C., Wittekind, C., Goemann, C., Wiedemann, K., Yassouridis, A. & Kellner, M. (2011). Effects of chronic posttraumatic stress disorder on metabolic risk, quality of life, and stress hormones in aging former refugee children. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 199, 646-652.

Muhtz, C., von Alm, C., Godemann, K., Wittekind, C., Jelinek, L., Yassouridis, A. & Kellner, M. (2011). Langzeitfolgen von in der Kindheit am Ende des II. Weltkrieges erlebter Flucht und Vertreibung. Psychotherapie - Psychosomatik - Medizinische Psychologie, 61, 233-238.

Wittekind, C. E.*, Jelinek, L.*, Kellner, M., Moritz, S. & Muhtz, C. (2010). Intergenerational transmission of biased information processing in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) following displacement after World War II. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 24, 953-957.
* shared first authorship

Wittekind, C. E., Rinck, M. & Wiers, R. (2024). Cognitive training as add-on to the treatment of substance use disorders. In I. Franken, K. Witkiewitz & R. Wiers (Eds.). The Sage Handbook of Addiction Psychology (S. 360-378). London: SAGE Publications Ltd.

Ehlers, A., Ehring, T., Wittekind, C. E. & Kleim, B. (2021). Information processing in posttraumatic stress disorder. In J. G. Beck & D. M. Sloan (Eds). The Oxford Handbook of Traumatic Stress Disorders, 2nd Edition (S. 367–414). New York: Oxford University Press.

Mehl, S. & Wittekind, C. E. (2016). Psychologische Therapien bei Schizophrenie. In R. Merod (Ed.). Psychologische Therapien bei Schizophrenie (S.29-68). Tübingen: dgvt-Verlag

Moritz, S., Wittekind, C., Planells-Keller, K., Bohn, F. & Naber, D. (2014). Raum für Individualität – Weiterentwicklung des Metakognitiven Trainings. In T. Bock, K. Klapheck, & F. Ruppelt (Eds.). Sinnfindung und Genesung: Erfahrungen und Forschungen zum subjektiven Sinn von Psychosen (S. 245-254). Köln: Psychiatrie Verlag.

Wittekind, C. E. (2014). Informationsverarbeitung Trauma-relevanter Reize bei Posttraumatischer Belastungsstörung (PTBS): Eine experimentelle Studie mit im Zweiten Weltkrieg vertriebenen Personen und ihren Angehörigen. Lengerich: Pabst Science Publishers.

Moritz, S., Timpano, K., Wittekind, C. E. & Knaevelsrud, C. (2013). Harnessing the web: Internet and self-help therapy for people with obsessive compulsive disorder and posttraumatic stress disorder. In E. A. Storch & D. McKay (Eds.). Handbook of treating variants and complications in anxiety disorders (S. 375-397). New York: Springer Science.

Rettenberger, M., Wittekind, C., Turner, D., Moritz, S. & Briken, P. (2013). Die Bedeutung des Approach-Avoidance Konzepts für die sexualforensische Forschung und klinische Praxis. In P. Briken, J. L. Müller, M. Rösler, M. Rettenberger, V. Klein & D. Yoon (Eds.) Empirische Forschung in der forensischen Psychiatrie, Psychologie und Psychotherapie (EFPPP)-Handbuch (S. 54-65). Berlin: Medizinisch Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft.