Steffen Möritz
Biographic Data
| ID | 4613667 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Steffen Möritz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Steffen |
| FAMILY NAME | Möritz |
| SIGNATURE | MORITZ S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universität Hamburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0085-1804 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Relieving the Burden on Caregivers
Permepsy
By integrating diverse data types and innovative technology, PERMEPSY addresses the need for personalized, effective treatment in psychosis, aiming to reduce individual and systemic burdens while supporting clinicians in their decision-making
MukoHelp
While some participants reported satisfaction, overall engagement and adherence were low, and no symptom improvements were observed. This suggests that future versions of MukoHelp should focus on increasing sustained usage-potentially through added guidance or supportive elements-to enhance feasibility and therapeutic impact
Bridging the divide
The study aimed at reducing the propensity for violence among supporters of left‐wing parties toward the right‐wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) as well as supporters of the AfD toward the German left‐wing Green Party (Die Grünen) using metacognitive training (MCT). A total of 1025 German participants were recruited online. Participants' political orientation and attitude toward the Green Party and the AfD were assessed using questionnaires. The…
Two in one
https://drks.de/register/de/trial/DRKS00026722/preview, identifier DRKS-IDDRKS00026722
Metacognitive training in U.S. Republican leaners reduces polarization and fosters democratic behavior–intentions with liberals
Reducing problematic pornography use with imaginal retraining–A randomized controlled trial
A Pilot Study of Metacognitive Training in U.S. Republican Leaners
Negative attitudes and stigmatization toward sexual minorities is a cause of minority stress of non-heterosexual persons on an individual level and has a negative impact on democratic coexistence in postmodern, plural society on a societal level. Derived from clinical research, we developed a short metacognitive training (MCT) intended to induce doubt toward inaccurate beliefs about LGBTIQ+ persons. We expected this MCT to reduce homonegativity, …
The influence of metacognition, social cognition, self-esteem, and quality of life on personal stigma in first-episode psychosis
Effectiveness of an abbreviated version of the automated attention training technique (ATT) for stress reduction in a non-clinical sample—A randomized controlled trial
Stress is one of the leading risk factors for mental health problems. The attention training technique (ATT), developed in the context of metacognitive therapy, is a method for increasing flexible control of attention and might thus reduce the impact of stressful events on mental health. Developed as a 12-minute exercise, ATT is primarily used in a clinical context. To ensure low-threshold implementation by the general population in everyday life…
How can imaginal retraining for modifying food craving be improved
Core dysfunctional beliefs in patients with obsessive–compulsive disorder are shared with patients with anxiety disorder according to the revised Beliefs Questionnaire
Efficacy of exposure and response prevention therapy in mixed reality for patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder
Many patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) do not receive cognitive behavioral therapy with exposure and response prevention (first line treatment for OCD), for example, due to patients' fear of the exposure and reservations of the therapists. Technology-supported exposure (e.g., exposure therapy with response prevention in mixed reality [MERP]) for patients with OCD may help to overcome this obstacle. Building upon findings of our pi…
Imaginal retraining reduces craving for high-calorie food
The Metacognitive Training for obsessive-compulsive disorder
More than 50% of patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) do not receive first-line psychological treatment such as cognitive-behavioral therapy with exposure and response prevention. To narrow this treatment gap, there is an urgent need for therapies that are easy to disseminate and highly accepted by patients. The aim of the present pilot study was to evaluate the effectiveness of the Metacognitive Group Training for OCD (MCT-OCD). Fif…
Internet-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Depression
Importance Personalized treatment choices would increase the effectiveness of internet-based cognitive behavioral therapy (iCBT) for depression to the extent that patients differ in interventions that better suit them. Objective To provide personalized estimates of short-term and long-term relative efficacy of guided and unguided iCBT for depression using patient-level information. Data Sources We searched PubMed, Embase, PsycInfo, and Cochrane L…
Coping Strategies and Subjective Well-being
A growing body of research suggests that the functionality of coping strategies may in part depend on the context in which they are executed. Thus far, functionality has mostly been defined through the associations of coping strategies with psychopathology, particularly depression. Whether associations of coping strategies with proxies for happiness such as subjective well-being (SWB) are simply inverse remains to be shown. A total of n = 836 ind…
Aggressiveness in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder as assessed by the Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure
Probing the Hypersalience Hypothesis—An Adapted Judge-Advisor System Tested in Individuals With Psychotic-Like Experiences
Individuals with psychotic-like experiences and psychosis gather and use information differently than controls; in particular they seek and rely on less information or over-weight currently available information. A new paradigm, the judge-advisor system, has previously been used to investigate these processes. Results showed that psychosis-prone individuals tend to seek less advice but at the same time use the available advice more. Some theoreti…
Maintaining Outcomes of Internet-Delivered Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Depression
Background: Depression is a highly prevalent mental disorder, but only a fraction of those affected receive evidence-based treatments. Recently, Internet-based interventions were introduced as an efficacious and cost-effective approach. However, even though depression is a heterogenous construct, effects of treatments have mostly been determined using aggregated symptom scores. This carries the risk of concealing important effects and working mec…
Mindfulness Mediates the Effect of a Psychological Online Intervention for Psychosis on Self-Reported Hallucinations
Completion of the mindfulness module was not randomized. Hence, we cannot draw causal inferences. Even if we assumed causality, it remains unclear which contents of the POI could have resulted in increased mindfulness and reduced hallucinations, as participants completed other modules as well. In addition, confounding variables could explain the mediation and the sample size was small. Nonetheless, the overall pattern of results indicates that th…
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
Our analyses suggest that a high degree of preoperational thinking is associated with a higher severity of depressive symptoms and possibly less symptom improvement. These findings support the notion that preoperational thinking is a relevant factor for the further course of depression and might indeed contribute to the maintenance of persistent depression
Targeting our blind spot
Political polarization between conservatives and liberals threatens democratic societies. Ameliorating liberal research participants’ negative feelings, evaluations, and stereotypes towards conservatives might be one step into the direction of a political depolarization. In a sample of U.S.-American liberal research participants recruited via Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (N = 271), we randomly assigned participants in a pre-post-design either to a cl…
How Education and Metacognitive Training May Ameliorate Religious Prejudices
Religious tensions in Western countries are growing and pose a challenge to societal peace. For the present study, we examined the attitudes of Christians, Muslims, and people with no religious affiliation toward the three major monotheistic religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. In the framework of a randomized controlled trial, we explored the extent to which five conditions (three metacognitive, one educational, and one control) changed …
Fostering Mutual Understanding Among Muslims and Non-Muslims Through Counterstereotypical Information
Fostering interfaith tolerance may help to reduce religious tensions. The authors examined the attitudes of Christians, Muslims, and people with no religious affiliation toward different religions and explored whether their negative attitudes toward other faiths could be ameliorated. Participants (N = 298) were asked about their attitudes toward Judaism, Christianity, and Islam before they were randomly assigned to either a metacognitive interven…
Muslims Love Jesus, Too? Corrective Information Alters Prejudices Against Islam
Fostering Mutual Understanding Among Muslims and Non-Muslims Through Counterstereotypical Information
Fostering interfaith tolerance may help to reduce religious tensions. The authors examined the attitudes of Christians, Muslims, and people with no religious affiliation toward different religions and explored whether their negative attitudes toward other faiths could be ameliorated. Participants (N = 298) were asked about their attitudes toward Judaism, Christianity, and Islam before they were randomly assigned to either a metacognitive interven…
Targeting our blind spot
Political polarization between conservatives and liberals threatens democratic societies. Ameliorating liberal research participants’ negative feelings, evaluations, and stereotypes towards conservatives might be one step into the direction of a political depolarization. In a sample of U.S.-American liberal research participants recruited via Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (N = 271), we randomly assigned participants in a pre-post-design either to a cl…
Metacognitive training in U.S. Republican leaners reduces polarization and fosters democratic behavior–intentions with liberals
Imaginal retraining reduces craving for high-calorie food
How Education and Metacognitive Training May Ameliorate Religious Prejudices
Religious tensions in Western countries are growing and pose a challenge to societal peace. For the present study, we examined the attitudes of Christians, Muslims, and people with no religious affiliation toward the three major monotheistic religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. In the framework of a randomized controlled trial, we explored the extent to which five conditions (three metacognitive, one educational, and one control) changed …
Veridical and false memory for scenic material in posttraumatic stress disorder
Muslims Love Jesus, Too? Corrective Information Alters Prejudices Against Islam
Fostering Mutual Understanding Among Muslims and Non-Muslims Through Counterstereotypical Information
Fostering interfaith tolerance may help to reduce religious tensions. The authors examined the attitudes of Christians, Muslims, and people with no religious affiliation toward different religions and explored whether their negative attitudes toward other faiths could be ameliorated. Participants (N = 298) were asked about their attitudes toward Judaism, Christianity, and Islam before they were randomly assigned to either a metacognitive interven…
Mindfulness Mediates the Effect of a Psychological Online Intervention for Psychosis on Self-Reported Hallucinations
Completion of the mindfulness module was not randomized. Hence, we cannot draw causal inferences. Even if we assumed causality, it remains unclear which contents of the POI could have resulted in increased mindfulness and reduced hallucinations, as participants completed other modules as well. In addition, confounding variables could explain the mediation and the sample size was small. Nonetheless, the overall pattern of results indicates that th…
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
Our analyses suggest that a high degree of preoperational thinking is associated with a higher severity of depressive symptoms and possibly less symptom improvement. These findings support the notion that preoperational thinking is a relevant factor for the further course of depression and might indeed contribute to the maintenance of persistent depression
Targeting our blind spot
Political polarization between conservatives and liberals threatens democratic societies. Ameliorating liberal research participants’ negative feelings, evaluations, and stereotypes towards conservatives might be one step into the direction of a political depolarization. In a sample of U.S.-American liberal research participants recruited via Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (N = 271), we randomly assigned participants in a pre-post-design either to a cl…
How Education and Metacognitive Training May Ameliorate Religious Prejudices
Religious tensions in Western countries are growing and pose a challenge to societal peace. For the present study, we examined the attitudes of Christians, Muslims, and people with no religious affiliation toward the three major monotheistic religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. In the framework of a randomized controlled trial, we explored the extent to which five conditions (three metacognitive, one educational, and one control) changed …
Internet-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Depression
Importance Personalized treatment choices would increase the effectiveness of internet-based cognitive behavioral therapy (iCBT) for depression to the extent that patients differ in interventions that better suit them. Objective To provide personalized estimates of short-term and long-term relative efficacy of guided and unguided iCBT for depression using patient-level information. Data Sources We searched PubMed, Embase, PsycInfo, and Cochrane L…
Coping Strategies and Subjective Well-being
A growing body of research suggests that the functionality of coping strategies may in part depend on the context in which they are executed. Thus far, functionality has mostly been defined through the associations of coping strategies with psychopathology, particularly depression. Whether associations of coping strategies with proxies for happiness such as subjective well-being (SWB) are simply inverse remains to be shown. A total of n = 836 ind…
Aggressiveness in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder as assessed by the Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure
Probing the Hypersalience Hypothesis—An Adapted Judge-Advisor System Tested in Individuals With Psychotic-Like Experiences
Individuals with psychotic-like experiences and psychosis gather and use information differently than controls; in particular they seek and rely on less information or over-weight currently available information. A new paradigm, the judge-advisor system, has previously been used to investigate these processes. Results showed that psychosis-prone individuals tend to seek less advice but at the same time use the available advice more. Some theoreti…
Maintaining Outcomes of Internet-Delivered Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Depression
Background: Depression is a highly prevalent mental disorder, but only a fraction of those affected receive evidence-based treatments. Recently, Internet-based interventions were introduced as an efficacious and cost-effective approach. However, even though depression is a heterogenous construct, effects of treatments have mostly been determined using aggregated symptom scores. This carries the risk of concealing important effects and working mec…
The Metacognitive Training for obsessive-compulsive disorder
More than 50% of patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) do not receive first-line psychological treatment such as cognitive-behavioral therapy with exposure and response prevention. To narrow this treatment gap, there is an urgent need for therapies that are easy to disseminate and highly accepted by patients. The aim of the present pilot study was to evaluate the effectiveness of the Metacognitive Group Training for OCD (MCT-OCD). Fif…
Core dysfunctional beliefs in patients with obsessive–compulsive disorder are shared with patients with anxiety disorder according to the revised Beliefs Questionnaire
Efficacy of exposure and response prevention therapy in mixed reality for patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder
Many patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) do not receive cognitive behavioral therapy with exposure and response prevention (first line treatment for OCD), for example, due to patients' fear of the exposure and reservations of the therapists. Technology-supported exposure (e.g., exposure therapy with response prevention in mixed reality [MERP]) for patients with OCD may help to overcome this obstacle. Building upon findings of our pi…
Imaginal retraining reduces craving for high-calorie food
Reducing problematic pornography use with imaginal retraining–A randomized controlled trial
A Pilot Study of Metacognitive Training in U.S. Republican Leaners
Negative attitudes and stigmatization toward sexual minorities is a cause of minority stress of non-heterosexual persons on an individual level and has a negative impact on democratic coexistence in postmodern, plural society on a societal level. Derived from clinical research, we developed a short metacognitive training (MCT) intended to induce doubt toward inaccurate beliefs about LGBTIQ+ persons. We expected this MCT to reduce homonegativity, …
The influence of metacognition, social cognition, self-esteem, and quality of life on personal stigma in first-episode psychosis
Effectiveness of an abbreviated version of the automated attention training technique (ATT) for stress reduction in a non-clinical sample—A randomized controlled trial
Stress is one of the leading risk factors for mental health problems. The attention training technique (ATT), developed in the context of metacognitive therapy, is a method for increasing flexible control of attention and might thus reduce the impact of stressful events on mental health. Developed as a 12-minute exercise, ATT is primarily used in a clinical context. To ensure low-threshold implementation by the general population in everyday life…
How can imaginal retraining for modifying food craving be improved
Two in one
https://drks.de/register/de/trial/DRKS00026722/preview, identifier DRKS-IDDRKS00026722
Metacognitive training in U.S. Republican leaners reduces polarization and fosters democratic behavior–intentions with liberals
Relieving the Burden on Caregivers
Permepsy
By integrating diverse data types and innovative technology, PERMEPSY addresses the need for personalized, effective treatment in psychosis, aiming to reduce individual and systemic burdens while supporting clinicians in their decision-making
Psychology (22 works) · Psychiatry (17 works) · Clinical Psychology (16 works) · Cognition (12 works) · Medicine (12 works) · Clinical Psychology (9 works) · Randomized controlled trial (9 works) · Intervention (counseling (8 works) · Psychotherapist (8 works) · Metacognition (7 works)