Publications

Representative Publications

Reichenberger, J., Schnepper, R., Arend, A.-K., Richard, A., Voderholzer, U., Naab, S., & Blechert, J. (2021). Emotional eating across different eating disorders and the role of body mass, restriction, and binge eating. International Journal of Eating Disorders. doi: 10.1002/eat.23477.

Arend, A.-K., Kaiser, T., Pannicke, B., Reichenberger, J., Naab, S., Voderholzer, & U., Blechert, J. (2023). Toward Individualized Prediction of Binge-Eating Episodes Based on Ecological Momentary Assessment Data: Item Development and Pilot Study in Patients With Bulimia Nervosa and Binge-Eating Disorder. JMIR Medical Informatics. doi: 10.2196/41513.

van Alebeek, H., Kahveci, S., Rinck, M., & Blechert, J. (2022). Touchscreen-based approach-avoidance responses to appetitive and threatening stimuli. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 78 (101806). doi: 10.1016/j.jbtep.2022.101806.

Publications

2025

Mechanisms of emotional eating and drinking: Sadness increases approach bias and craving for chocolate and alcohol
Hannah van Alebeek, Sercan Kahveci, Reinout W. Wiers, Jens Blechert
Personality and Individual Differences
Non-guided, mobile, CBT-I-based sleep intervention in War-torn Ukraine: A feasibility study
Anton Kurapov, Jens Blechert, Alexandra Hinterberger, Pavlos Topalidis, Manuel Schabus
PLoS ONE
Bidirectional associations between affect and food craving within and between individuals: A mega-analysis
Matthias Burkard Aulbach, Christoph Bamberg, Julia Reichenberger, Ann-Kathrin Arend, Jens Blechert
Appetite
Shaping food choices with actions and inactions with and without reward and punishment
Huaiyu Liu, Julian Quandt, Lei Zhang, Xiongbing Kang, Jens Blechert, Tjits van Lent, Rob W. Holland, Harm Veling
Appetite
Taming “hanger” and falling prey to boredom-emotional and stress-eating in 801 healthy individuals using ecological momentary assessment
Matthias Burkard Aulbach, Christoph Bamberg, Julia Reichenberger, Ann-Kathrin Arend, Jens Blechert
Appetite
Contextual and affective precursors of physical activity intention and enactment examined through ecological momentary assessment
David Haag, Jan David Smeddinck, Anna Vogelsang, Jens Blechert
Psychology of Sport and Exercise
Feature Selection for Physical Activity Prediction Using Ecological Momentary Assessments to Personalize Intervention Timing: Longitudinal Observational Study
Devender Kumar, David Haag, Jens Blechert, Josef Niebauer, Jan David Smeddinck
JMIR mHealth and uHealth
The only constant is change: Stable vs. variable aspects of food approach bias relate differently to food craving and intake
Hannah van Alebeek, Mareike Röttger, Sercan Kahveci, Jens Blechert, Matthias Burkard Aulbach
Appetite

2024

Daily stress and emotions in relation to fear of negative and positive evaluation
Julia Reichenberger, Ann-Kathrin Arend, Jens Blechert
Journal of Anxiety Disorders
Emotional food craving across the eating disorder spectrum: an ecological momentary assessment study
Ann-Kathrin Arend, Jens Blechert, Takuya Yanagida, Ulrich Voderholzer, Julia Reichenberger
Eating and Weight Disorders - Studies on Anorexia, Bulimia and Obesity
Why we don't eat as intended: Moderators of the short-term intention-behaviour relation in food intake
Matthias Burkard Aulbach, Hannah van Alebeek, Christopher M. Jones, Jens Blechert
British Journal of Health Psychology
Non-guided, Mobile, CBT-I-based Sleep Training in War-torn Ukraine: A Feasibility Study
Anton Kurapov, Jens Blechert, Alexandra Hinterberger, Pavlos Topalidis, Manuel Schabus
Preprint
Explaining post-traumatic stress symptoms and sleep disturbance in Ukrainian civilians: perceived threat versus objective war exposure
Anton Kurapov, Manuel Schabus, Sercan Kahveci, Frank H. Wilhelm, Jens Blechert
European Journal of Psychotraumatology
Imagine chocolate: The craving experience questionnaire in the food domain
Mareike Röttger, Hannah Van Alebeek, Matthias Burkard Aulbach, Jens Blechert
Appetite
Goal pursuit increases more after dietary success than after dietary failure: examining conflicting theories of self-regulation using ecological momentary assessment
Hannah van Alebeek, Christopher M. Jones, Julia Reichenberger, Björn Pannicke, Benjamin Schüz, Jens Blechert
International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity
A smartphone application to reduce problematic drinking: a feasibility trial
Christian Aljoscha Lukas, Jens Blechert, Matthias Berking
Pilot and Feasibility Studies

2023

Emotional food‐cue‐reactivity in anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa: An electroencephalography study
Katharina Naomi Eichin, Claudio Georgii, Rebekka Schnepper, Ulrich Voderholzer, Jens Blechert
International Journal of Eating Disorders
Emotional eating: elusive or evident? Integrating laboratory, psychometric and daily life measures
Rebekka Schnepper, Jens Blechert, Ann-Kathrin Arend, Takuya Yanagida, Julia Reichenberger
Eating and Weight Disorders - Studies on Anorexia, Bulimia and Obesity
Within-person association of volitional factors and physical activity: Insights from an ecological momentary assessment study
David Haag, Eleonora Carrozzo, Björn Pannicke, Josef Niebauer, Jens Blechert
Psychology of Sport and Exercise
Predicting food craving in everyday life through smartphone-derived sensor and usage data
Thomas Schneidergruber, Jens Blechert, Samuel Arzt, Björn Pannicke, Julia Reichenberger, Ann-Kathrin Arend, Simon W. Ginzinger
Frontiers in Digital Health
Conflict in a word-based approach-avoidance task is stronger with positive words
Johannes Klackl, Jens Blechert, Eva Jonas
Brain and Behavior
Touchscreen-based approach-avoidance responses to appetitive and threatening stimuli
Hannah Van Alebeek, Sercan Kahveci, Mike Rinck, Jens Blechert
Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry
Toward Individualized Prediction of Binge-Eating Episodes Based on Ecological Momentary Assessment Data: Item Development and Pilot Study in Patients With Bulimia Nervosa and Binge-Eating Disorder
Ann-Kathrin Arend, Tim Kaiser, Björn Pannicke, Julia Reichenberger, Silke Naab, Ulrich Voderholzer, Jens Blechert
JMIR Medical Informatics
Disentangling go/no-go from motivational orientation to foods: approaching is more than just responding
Hannah Van Alebeek, Harm Veling, Jens Blechert
Food Quality and Preference
Differential Orbitofrontal Cortex Responses to Chocolate Images While Performing an Approach–Avoidance Task in the MRI Environment
Anja Lender, Janina Wirtz, Martin Kronbichler, Sercan Kahveci, Simone Kühn, Jens Blechert
Nutrients

2022

Devaluation of NoGo stimuli is both robust and fragile
Huaiyu Liu, Rob W. Holland, Jens Blechert, Julian Quandt, Harm Veling
Cognition and Emotion
Emotional Eating after Manipulating Emotion Regulation: A Laboratory Study in Adolescents
Taaike Debeuf, Sandra Verbeken, Brenda Volkaert, Nathalie Michels, Jens Blechert, Caroline Braet
Behaviour Change
Reception of health messages: effects of stigmatization and forcefulness
Rebekka Schnepper, Jens Blechert, F Marijn Stok
Journal of Public Health
Clustering individuals' temporal patterns of affective states, hunger, and food craving by latent class vector-autoregression
Björn Pannicke, Jens Blechert, Julia Reichenberger, Tim Kaiser
International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity
Further support for the validity of the social appearance anxiety scale (SAAS) in a variety of German-speaking samples
Julia Reichenberger, Anne Kathrin Radix, Jens Blechert, Tanja Legenbauer
Eating and Weight Disorders - Studies on Anorexia, Bulimia and Obesity
Prone to food in bad mood: Emotion‐potentiated food‐cue reactivity in patients with binge‐eating disorder
Ann‐Kathrin Arend, Rebekka Schnepper, Annika Petra Christine Lutz, Katharina Naomi Eichin, Jens Blechert
International Journal of Eating Disorders
(Mouse cursor)-Tracking food decisions in binge eating disorder reveals preference for high-energy foods and a role of BMI
Katharina Naomi Eichin, Claudio Georgii, Ann-Kathrin Arend, Zoé Van Dyck, Jens Blechert
Appetite
I change my mind to get better: Process tracing-based microanalysis of food choice processes reveals differences between Anorexia Nervosa and bulimia nervosa during inpatient treatment
Claudio Georgii, Katharina Naomi Eichin, Anna Richard, Rebekka Schnepper, Silke Naab, Ulrich Voderholzer, Janet Treasure, Jens Blechert
Appetite

2021

Is there stress eating in children and adolescents?: A first validation of the Dutch version of the Salzburg Stress Eating Scale
Ine Verbiest, Jens Blechert, T. Debeuf, S. Verbeken, J.C. Klosowska, N. Michels, S. De Henauw, Caroline Braet
Appetite
Grab it or not? Measuring avoidance of spiders with touchscreen-based hand movements
Mike Rinck, Anna Dapprich, Anja Lender, Sercan Kahveci, Jens Blechert
Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry
Comparison of different response devices to assess behavioral tendencies towards chocolate in the Approach-Avoidance Task
Charlotte E. Wittekind, Jens Blechert, Tanja Schiebel, Anja Lender, Sercan Kahveci, Simone Kühn
Appetite
Emotional reactivity to binge food and erotic cues in women with bulimia nervosa symptoms
Isabel Hernández-Rivero, Jens Blechert, Laura Miccoli, Katharina Naomi Eichin, M. Carmen Fernández-Santaella, Rafael Delgado-Rodríguez
Journal of Eating Disorders
Time-Lagged Prediction of Food Craving with Qualitative Distinct Predictor Types: An Application of BISCWIT
Tim Kaiser, Björn Butter, Samuel Arzt, Björn Pannicke, Julia Reichenberger, Simon Grinzinger, Jens Blechert
Frontiers in Digital Health
Characterising binge eating over the course of a feasibility trial among individuals with binge eating disorder and bulimia nervosa
Rayane Chami, Julia Reichenberger, Valentina Cardi, Natalia Lawrence, Janet Treasure, Jens Blechert
Appetite
Bad mood food? Increased versus decreased food cue reactivity in anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa during negative emotions
Rebekka Schnepper, Anna Richard, Claudio Georgii, Ann‐Kathrin Arend, Silke Naab, Ulrich Voderholzer, Frank H. Wilhelm, Jens Blechert
European Eating Disorders Review
Touchscreen-based assessment of food approach biases: investigating reliability and item-specific preferences
Sercan Kahveci, Hannah Van Alebeek, Matthias Berking, Jens Blechert
Appetite
Gastric interoception and gastric myoelectrical activity in bulimia nervosa and binge-eating disorder
Zoé van Dyck, André Schulz, Jens Blechert, Beate M. Herbert, Annika P.C. Lutz, Claus Vögele
International Journal of Eating Disorders
Emotional eating across different eating disorders and the role of body mass, restriction, and binge eating
Julia Reichenberger, Rebekka Schnepper, Ann‐Kathrin Arend, Anna Richard, Ulrich Voderholzer, Silke Naab, Jens Blechert
International Journal of Eating Disorders
Assessment of approach-avoidance tendencies in body image using a novel touchscreen paradigm
Laura Dondzilo, Julian Basanovic, Jason Bell, Caitlin Mills, Radomir Dinic, Jens Blechert
Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry
Mind the food: behavioural characteristics and imaging signatures of the specific handling of food objects
Sebastian M. Max, Philipp A. Schroeder, Jens Blechert, Katrin E. Giel, Ann-Christine Ehlis, Christian Plewnia
Brain Structure and Function
Increased screen use on days with increased perceived COVID-19-related confinements: A day level ecological momentary assessment study
Ann-Kathrin Arend, Jens Blechert, Björn Pannicke, Julia Reichenberger
Frontiers in Public Health
Does stress eat away at you or make you eat?: EMA measures of stress predict day to day food craving and perceived food intake as a function of trait stress-eating
Julia Reichenberger, Björn Pannicke, Ann-Kathrin Arend, Katja Petrowski, Jens Blechert
Psychology and Health
Mood induced changes in the cortical processing of food images in bulimia nervosa
Annika P. C. Lutz, Angelika Dierolf, Zoé Van Dyck, Claudio Georgii, Rebekka Schnepper, Jens Blechert, Claus Vögele
Addictive Behaviors
Networks of stress, affect and eating behaviour: anticipated stress coping predicts goal-congruent eating in young adults
Björn Pannicke, Tim Kaiser, Julia Reichenberger, Jens Blechert
International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity
Emotion regulation and emotional eating in anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa
Adrian Meule, Anna Richard, Rebekka Schnepper, Julia Reichenberger, Claudio Georgii, Silke Naab, Ulrich Voderholzer, Jens Blechert
Eating Disorders

2020

Sensation seeking and neuroticism in fear conditioning and extinction: the role of avoidance behaviour
Julina A. Rattel, Stephan F. Miedl, Michael Liedlgruber, Jens Blechert, Esther Seidl, Frank H. Wilhelm
Behaviour Research and Therapy
Food approach bias is moderated by the desire to eat specific foods
Sercan Kahveci, Adrian Meule, Anja Lender, Jens Blechert
Appetite
Pulling for pleasure? Erotic approach-bias associated with porn use, not problems
Sercan Kahveci, Bram Van Bockstaele, Jens Blechert, Reinout W. Wiers
Learning and Motivation
Love at first taste: Activation in reward-related brain regions during single-trial naturalistic appetitive conditioning in humans
Anja Lender, Stephan Franz Miedl, Frank H. Wilhelm, Joe Miller, Jens Blechert
Physiology & Behavior
Measuring approach-avoidance tendencies towards food with touchscreen-based arm movements
Adrian Meule, Anna Richard, Anja Lender, Radomir Dinic, Timo Brockmeyer, Mike Rinck, Jens Blechert
Psychological Research
The dynamics of self-control: within-participant modeling of binary food choices and underlying decision processes as a function of restrained eating
Claudio Georgii, Michael Schulte-Mecklenbeck, Anna Richard, Zoé Van Dyck, Jens Blechert
Psychological Research
Emotional eating in healthy individuals and patients with an eating disorder: evidence from psychometric, experimental and naturalistic studies
Julia Reichenberger, Rebekka Schnepper, Ann-Kathrin Arend, Jens Blechert
Proceedings of the Nutrition Society
Affect Improvements and Measurement Concordance Between a Subjective and an Accelerometric Estimate of Physical Activity
Björn Pannicke, Julia Reichenberger, Dana Schultchen, Olga Pollatos, Jens Blechert
European Journal of Health Psychology
Fight, Flight, – Or Grab a Bite! Trait Emotional and Restrained Eating Style Predicts Food Cue Responding Under Negative Emotions
Rebekka Schnepper, Claudio Georgii, Katharina Eichin, Ann-Kathrin Arend, Frank H. Wilhelm, Claus Vögele, Annika P. C. Lutz, Zoé van Dyck, Jens Blechert
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
Exploring Changes in Event-Related Potentials After a Feasibility Trial of Inhibitory Training for Bulimia Nervosa and Binge Eating Disorder
Rayane Chami, Janet Treasure, Valentina Cardi, María Lozano-Madrid, Katharina Naomi Eichin, Grainne McLoughlin, Jens Blechert
Frontiers in Psychology
Neural Processing During Fear Extinction Predicts Intrusive Memories
Stephan F. Miedl, Julina A. Rattel, Laila K. Franke, Jens Blechert, Martin Kronbichler, Victor I. Spoormaker, Frank H. Wilhelm
Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging
Body-related cognitive distortions (thought–shape fusion body) associated with thin-ideal exposure in female students—An ecological momentary assessment study
Andrea Wyssen, Judith Leins, Julia Reichenberger, Jens Blechert, Simone Munsch, Sabine Steins-Loeber
Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy

2019

Approach–avoidance tendencies towards food: Measurement on a touchscreen and the role of attention and food craving
Adrian Meule, Anja Lender, Anna Richard, Radomir Dinic, Jens Blechert
Appetite
Bidirectional relationship of stress and affect with physical activity and healthy eating
Dana Schultchen, Julia Reichenberger, Theresa Mittl, Tabea R.M. Weh, Joshua M. Smyth, Jens Blechert, Olga Pollatos
British Journal of Health Psychology
Fear of negative and positive evaluation and reactivity to social-evaluative videos in social anxiety disorder
Julia Reichenberger, Nicole Wiggert, Frank H. Wilhelm, Michael Liedlgruber, Ulrich Voderholzer, Andreas Hillert, Barbara Timmer, Jens Blechert
Behaviour Research and Therapy
Peritraumatic unconditioned and conditioned responding explains sex differences in intrusions after analogue trauma
Julina A Rattel, Melanie Wegerer, Stephan F Miedl, Jens Blechert, Lisa M Grünberger, Michelle G Craske, Frank H Wilhelm
Behaviour Research and Therapy
Peritraumatic Neural Processing and Intrusive Memories: The Role of Lifetime Adversity
Julina Rattel, Stephan F Miedl, Laila K Franke, Lisa M. Grünberger, Jens Blechert, Martin Kronbichler, Victor I. Spoormaker, Frank H. Wilhelm
Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging
Frequency of Intrusions and Appraisal of Related Distress After Analogue Trauma: A Comparative Ecological Momentary Assessment Methods Study
Julina A Rattel, Lisa M Grünberger, Julia Reichenberger, Michael Liedlgruber, Stephan F Miedl, Jens Blechert, Frank H Wilhelm
Cognitive Therapy and Research
A Combined Mindfulness'Prolonged Chewing Intervention Reduces Body Weight, Food Craving, and Emotional Eating
Rebekka Schnepper, Anna Richard, Frank H. Wilhelm, Jens Blechert
Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology
Associations between interoceptive sensitivity, intuitive eating, and body mass index in patients with anorexia nervosa and normal-weight controls
Anna Richard, Adrian Meule, Claudio Georgii, Ulrich Voderholzer, Ulrich Cuntz, Frank H. Wilhelm, Jens Blechert
European Eating Disorders Review
Resilienztraining für unbegleitete minderjährige Flüchtlinge: Eine randomisiert-kontrollierte Pilotstudie
Barbara Scheiber, Gerda Greinz, Jan B. Hillebrand, Frank H. Wilhelm, Jens Blechert
Kindheit und Entwicklung

2018

Smoking, Stress Eating, and Body Weight: The Moderating Role of Perceived Stress
Adrian Meule, Julia Reichenberger, Jens Blechert
Substance Use and Misuse
It's craving time: time of day effects on momentary hunger and food craving in daily life
Julia Reichenberger, Anna Richard, Joshua M. Smyth, Dana Fischer, Olga Pollatos, Jens Blechert
Nutrition
Food cue-induced craving in individuals with bulimia nervosa and binge-eating disorder
Adrian Meule, Carolyn Küppers, Louisa Harms, Hans Christoph Friederich, Ulrike Schmidt, Jens Blechert, Timo Brockmeyer
PLoS ONE
Suppressing images of desire: Neural correlates of chocolate-related thoughts in high and low trait chocolate cravers
Stephan F. Miedl, Jens Blechert, Adrian Meule, Anna Richard, Frank H. Wilhelm
Appetite
Measurement of food-related approach–avoidance biases: Larger biases when food stimuli are task relevant
Anja Lender, Adrian Meule, Mike Rinck, Timo Brockmeyer, Jens Blechert
Appetite
Facial gender but not emotion distinguishes neural responses of 10- to 13-year-old children with social anxiety disorder from healthy and clinical controls
Verena Keil, Andero Uusberg, Jens Blechert, Brunna Tuschen-Caffier, Julian Schmitz
Biological Psychology
Fear of evaluation unpacked: day-to-day correlates of fear of negative and positive evaluation
Julia Reichenberger, Joshua M. Smyth, Jens Blechert
Anxiety, Stress and Coping
Development and preliminary validation of the Salzburg Emotional Eating Scale
Adrian Meule, Julia Reichenberger, Jens Blechert
Frontiers in Psychology
Imaging the up’s and down’s of emotion regulation in lifetime depression
Sina Radke, Felix Hoffstaedter, Leonie Löffler, Lydia Kogler, Frank Schneider, Jens Blechert, Birgit Derntl
Brain Imaging and Behavior
No haste, more taste: An EMA study of the effects of stress, negative and positive emotions on eating behavior
Julia Reichenberger, Peter Kuppens, Michael Liedlgruber, Frank H. Wilhelm, Martin Tiefengrabner, Simon Ginzinger, Jens Blechert
Biological Psychology
Neural activity during traumatic film viewing is linked to endogenous estradiol and hormonal contraception
Stephan Franz Miedl, Melanie Wegerer, Hubert Kerschbaum, Jens Blechert, Frank Wilhelm
Psychoneuroendocrinology

2017

Attend or defend?: Sex differences in behavioral, autonomic, and respiratory response patterns to emotion-eliciting films
Frank Wilhelm, Julina A. Rattel, Melanie Wegerer, Michael Liedlgruber, Simon Schweighofer, Sylvia D. Kreibig, Vitaliy Kolodyazhniy, Jens Blechert
Biological Psychology
Unobtrusive electromyography-based eating detection in daily life: A new tool to address underreporting?
Jens Blechert, Michael Liedlgruber, Anja Lender, Julia Reichenberger, F. H. Wilhelm
Appetite