Research areas

• – Social decision-making
• – Social inference
• – Interpersonal beliefs
• – Depression

Methodological and/or psychotherapeutic expertise

• – Active inference modeling
• – Cognitive-behavioral therapy
• – Experimental psychopathology

Relevant publications

• Berg, M., Feldmann, M., Kirchner, L., & Kube, T. (2022). Oversampled and undersolved: Depressive rumination from an active inference perspective. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 142(August), 104873. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2022.104873
• Kirchner, L., Eckert, A.-L., & Berg, M. (2022). From broken models to treatment selection: Active inference as a tool to guide clinical research and practice. Clinical Psychology in Europe, 4(2). https://doi.org/10.32872/cpe.9697 [Editorial]
• Kirchner, L., Eckert, A., Berg, M., Endres, D., Straube, B., & Rief, W. (2022, August 9). Better Safe than Sorry? - An Active Inference Approach to Biased Social Inference in Depression. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/bp9re
• Kirchner, L., Eckert, A., Berg, M., Endres, D., Straube, B., & Rief, W. (2024). An active inference approach to interpersonal differences in depression. New Ideas in Psychology, 74(March), 101092. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.newideapsych.2024.101092