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Michael Witthöft is affiliated with Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of psychology and medicine, with particular expertise in psychiatry and mental health, clinical psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, social psychology, and philosophy.

Their scholarly work has centered on several key topics, including:

  • Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Mental Health and Psychiatry
  • Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Research
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
  • COVID-19 and Mental Health

Frequent publication venues for Witthöft include:

  • Journal of Psychosomatic Research
  • Psychosomatic Medicine
  • Zeitschrift für Klinische Psychologie und Psychotherapie
  • PsycTESTS Dataset
  • Psychological Medicine

Their collaborative network features several frequent co-authors, such as:

  • Stefanie M. Jungmann
  • Anne-Kathrin Bräscher
  • Omer Van den Bergh
  • Ferenc Köteles
  • Severin Hennemann

Michael Witthöft has contributed to multiple recent studies, including:

  • "Health anxiety, cyberchondria, and coping in the current COVID-19 pandemic: Which factors are related to coronavirus anxiety?" (2020) published in Journal of Anxiety Disorders
  • "Emotional and Behavioral Consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Role of Health Anxiety, Intolerance of Uncertainty, and Distress (In)Tolerance" (2020) in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • "Management der frühen rheumatoiden Arthritis" (2020) in Zeitschrift für Rheumatologie
  • "The European Training Network ETUDE (Encompassing Training in fUnctional Disorders across Europe): a new research and training program of the EURONET-SOMA network recruiting 15 early stage researchers" (2020) in Journal of Psychosomatic Research
  • "Proprioception but not cardiac interoception is related to the rubber hand illusion" (2020) in Cortex

Best Publications

  • Pharmacological interventions for somatoform disorders in adults.

    Maria Kleinstäuber;Michael Witthöft;Andrés Steffanowski;Harm van Marwijk

  • Health anxiety, cyberchondria, and coping in the current COVID-19 pandemic: Which factors are related to coronavirus anxiety?

    Stefanie M. Jungmann;Michael Witthöft

  • Symptoms and the body: Taking the inferential leap

    Omer Van den Bergh;Michael Witthöft;Sibylle Petersen;Richard J. Brown

  • Efficacy of short-term psychotherapy for multiple medically unexplained physical symptoms: a meta-analysis.

    Maria Kleinstäuber;Michael Witthöft;Wolfgang Hiller

  • Psychological approaches to origins and treatments of somatoform disorders.

    Michael Witthöft;Wolfgang Hiller

  • Are media warnings about the adverse health effects of modern life self-fulfilling? An experimental study on idiopathic environmental intolerance attributed to electromagnetic fields (IEI-EMF)

    Michael Witthöft;Michael Witthöft;G. James Rubin

  • Health anxiety and hypochondriasis in the light of DSM-5

    Josef Bailer;Tobias Kerstner;Michael Witthöft;Carsten Diener

  • Is interoceptive awareness really altered in somatoform disorders? Testing competing theories with two paradigms of heartbeat perception.

    Manuela Schaefer;Boris Egloff;Michael Witthöft

  • Der Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (CERQ)

    Noelle Loch;Wolfgang Hiller;Michael Witthöft

  • Cognitive Emotion Regulation and Psychopathology across Cultures: A Comparison between Six European Countries

    Sebastian Potthoff;Sebastian Potthoff;Nadia Garnefski;Monika Miklósi;Alessandro Ubbiali

  • Improving heartbeat perception in patients with medically unexplained symptoms reduces symptom distress

    Manuela Schaefer;Boris Egloff;Alexander L. Gerlach;Michael Witthöft

  • Evidence for overlap between idiopathic environmental intolerance and somatoform disorders.

    Josef Bailer;Michael Witthöft;Christine Paul;Christiane Bayerl

  • Methods matter: Testing competing models for designing short-scale Big-Five assessments

    Gabriel Olaru;Michael Witthöft;Oliver Wilhelm

  • Cognitive-Behavioral and Pharmacological Interventions for Premenstrual Syndrome or Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder: A Meta-Analysis

    Maria Kleinstäuber;Michael Witthöft;Wolfgang Hiller

  • Emotion regulation in patients with somatic symptom and related disorders: A systematic review.

    Zeynep Emine Okur Güney;Zeynep Emine Okur Güney;Heribert Sattel;Michael Witthöft;Peter Henningsen

  • The Latent Structure of Medically Unexplained Symptoms and Its Relation to Functional Somatic Syndromes

    Michael Witthöft;Michael Witthöft;Wolfgang Hiller;Noelle Loch;Fabian Jasper

  • Syndrome stability and psychological predictors of symptom severity in idiopathic environmental intolerance and somatoform disorders.

    Josef Bailer;Michael Witthöft;Christiane Bayerl;Fred Rist

  • Selective attention, memory bias, and symptom perception in idiopathic environmental intolerance and somatoform disorders.

    Michael Witthöft;Alexander L. Gerlach;Josef Bailer

  • Psychological predictors of short- and medium term outcome in individuals with idiopathic environmental intolerance (IEI) and individuals with somatoform disorders.

    Josef Bailer;Michael Witthöft;Fred Rist

  • Health anxiety--an indicator of higher interoceptive sensitivity?

    Susann Krautwurst;Alexander L. Gerlach;Lara Gomille;Wolfgang Hiller

  • Modern health worries and idiopathic environmental intolerance

    Josef Bailer;Michael Witthöft;Fred Rist

  • Emotional and behavioral consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic: the role of health anxiety, intolerance of uncertainty, and distress (in)tolerance

    Karoline S. Sauer;Stefanie M. Jungmann;Michael Witthöft

  • Idiopathic Environmental Intolerance: A Comprehensive Model:

    Omer Van den Bergh;Richard J. Brown;Sibylle Petersen;Sibylle Petersen;Michael Witthöft

Frequent Co-Authors

Wolfgang Hiller
Wolfgang Hiller Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Daniela Mier
Daniela Mier University of Konstanz
Alexander L. Gerlach
Alexander L. Gerlach University of Cologne
Boris Egloff
Boris Egloff Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Claus Vögele
Claus Vögele University of Luxembourg
Stefan Sütterlin
Stefan Sütterlin Østfold University College
Steven Nordin
Steven Nordin Umeå University
Oliver Wilhelm
Oliver Wilhelm University of Ulm
Richard J. Brown
Richard J. Brown University of Manchester

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