Prof. Dr. Mike Rinck
Department
Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy
Bochumer Fenster
Massenbergstraße 9-13
D-44787 Bochum
Tel: +49 (0)234 32 - 23169
Fax: +49 (0)234 32 - 14369
Mike.Rinck@rub.de
Adjunct Professor
1998 | Habilitation at Dresden University of Technology. |
1990 | Promotion (Dr. rer. nat.) at the University of Marburg. |
1986 | Diploma in Psychology at the Philipps-University of Marburg. |
1981 - 1986 | Major in Psychology at the Philipps-University of Marburg, Germany. |
2015 - now | Lecturer in Continuing Education Courses on "Scientific Attitude" for Behavior Therapists at Radboud University, NL. |
6/ 2014 - 7/ 2014 | Visiting scholar at the Dept. of Psychology, Stanford University, CA. Invited by Prof. Ian Gotlib. |
2012 - now | Adjunct Professor ("Außerplanmäßiger Professor") at Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany. |
2012 - now | Lecturer in Continuing
Education Courses on "Learning" for Children and Adolescents Behavior
Therapists at Ruhr-University Bochum and University of Landau, Germany. |
2010 – 2011 | Guest Lecturer at the Hochschule Rhein-Waal, Kamp-Lintfort. |
4/ 2010 - 7/ 2010 | Visiting scholar at the Dept. of Psychology, Boston University. Invited by Prof. Stefan Hofmann. |
2008 - now | Associate Professor ("Universitair Hoofddocent") at Rad¬boud University Nijmegen, Dept. of Clinical Psychology. |
2005 - 2008 | Assistant Professor ("Universitair Docent") at Radboud University Nijmegen, Dept. of Clinical Psychology. |
2004 – 2005 | Assistant Professor at Maastricht University, Dept. of Medical, Clinical, and Experimental Psychology. |
2002 - now | Lecturer in Continuing Education Courses on "Learning" for Behavior Therapists at IAP, TU Dresden, Germany. |
1999 | Guest Lecturer at the Department of Psychology at the University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC). |
1993 – 2004 | Assistant Professor and Associate Professor at the Department of General Psycho¬logy, Dresden University of Technology. |
1992 - 1993 | Temporary Professor of Educational Psychology at the Dept. of Psychology, University of Giessen, Germany. |
1991 - 1992 | Visiting scholar at the Dept. of Psychology, Stanford University. Invited by Prof. Gordon Bower. |
1987 - 1991 | Research associate in the research project "Integration of Know¬ledge" at the University of Giessen. |
Mike Rinck was trained as a cognitive psychologist. He applies cognitive
theories and experimental methods to the study of cognitive processes in
mental disorders. The focus of his research lies in an area known as
experimental psychopathology; here he studies biased cognitive processes in
emotional disorders. He published numerous studies on the role of cognitive
processes such as attention, learning, memory, associations, and
interpretation in anxiety disorders and depression. More recently, he started
research in the area of Cognitive Bias Modification, that is, the use of
computerized training programs designed to re-train cognitive processes in
mental disorders. His special area of expertise centers around the assessment
and modification of automatic approach-avoidance tendencies in various mental
disorders. For instance, several recent publications of his research group
show how relapse rates in alcohol addiction can be reduced by training
automatic avoidance of alcohol stimuli.
Publications
The complete list of publications is available upon request.
Becker, E.S., Ferentzi, H., Ferrari, G., Möbius, M., Brugman, S., Custers, J.,
Geurtzen, N., Wouters, J., & Rinck, M. (2016). Always
approach the bright side of life: A general positivity training reduces stress
vulnerability in vulnerable individuals. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 40,
57-71.
Eberl, C., Wiers, R.W., Pawelczack, S., Rinck, M., Becker, E., Lindenmeyer, J.
(2013). Approach bias modification in alcohol dependence: Do clinical effects
replicate and for whom does it work best? Developmental Cognitive
Neuroscience, 4, 38-51.
Eberl, C., Wiers, R.W., Pawelczack, S., Rinck, M., Becker, E.S., &
Lindenmeyer, J. (2014). Implementation of approach bias re-training in
alcoholism: How many sessions are needed? Alcoholism: Clinical and
Experimental Research, 38, 587-594.
Heuer, K., Rinck, M., & Becker, E. S. (2007). Avoidance of emotional facial
expressions in social anxiety: The Approach-Avoidance Task. Behaviour Research
and Therapy, 45, 2990-3001.
Huijding, J., Field, A.P., De Houwer, J., Vandenbosch, K., Rinck, M., & van
Oeveren, M. (2009). A behavioural route to disfunctional representations: The
effects of training approach or avoidance tendencies towards novel animals in
children. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 47, 471-477.
Klein, A., Becker, E. S., & Rinck, M. (2011). Approach and avoidance
tendencies in spider-fearful children: The Approach-Avoidance Task. Journal of
Child and Family Studies, 20, 224-231.
Klein, A., Becker, E. S., & Rinck, M. (2011). Direct and indirect measures of
spider fear predict unique variance in children's fear-related behaviour.
Cognition and Emotion, 25, 1205-1213.
Klein, A., Kleinherenbrink, A., Simons, C., de Gier, E., Klein, S., Allart,
E., Bögels, S., Becker, E. S., & Rinck, M. (2012). Subjective fear,
interference by threat, and fear associations independently predict
fear-related behavior in children. Journal of Behavior Therapy and
Experimental Psychiatry, 43, 952-958.
Klein, A. M., Rapee, R. M., Hudson, J. L., Schniering, C. A., Wuthrich, V.,
Kangas, M., Lyneham, H., & Rinck, M. (2015). Interpretation modification
training reduces interpretation bias and anxiety in clinically anxious
children. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 75, 78-84.
Lange, W.-G., Keijsers, G., Becker, E., & Rinck, M. (2008). Social anxiety and
evaluation of social crowds: Explicit and implicit measures. Behaviour
Research and Therapy, 46, 932-943.
Langner, O., Becker, E.S., & Rinck, M. (2009). Social anxiety and anger
identification: Bubbles reveal differential use of facial information with low
spatial frequencies. Psychological Science, 20, 666-670.
Langner, O., Becker, E. S., & Rinck, M. (2012). Higher sensitivity for low
spatial frequency expressions in social anxiety: Evident in indirect, but not
direct tasks? Emotion, 12, 847-851.
Machulska, A., Zlomuzica, A., Adolph, D., Rinck, M., & Margraf, J. (2015). "A
cigarette a day keeps the goodies away": Smokers show automatic approach
tendencies for smoking-, but not for food-related stimuli. PLoS ONE 10(2):
e0116464.
Machulska, A., Zlomuzica, A., Rinck, M., Assion, H.-J., & Margraf, J. (in
press). Approach bias modification in psychiatric inpatient smokers. Journal
of Psychiatric Research.
Reinecke, A., Rinck, M., & Becker, E. S. (2006). Spiders crawl easily through
the bottleneck: Visual working memory for negative stimuli. Emotion, 6,
438-449.
Reinecke, A., Rinck, M., Becker, E.S., & Hoyer, J. (2013). Cognitive-behavior
therapy resolves implicit fear associations in generalized anxiety disorder.
Behaviour Research and Therapy, 51, 15-23.
Reinecke, A., Soltau, C., Hoyer, J., Becker, E. S., & Rinck, M. (2012).
Treatment sensitivity of implicit threat evaluation, avoidance tendency, and
visual working memory bias in specific phobia. Journal of Anxiety Disorders,
26, 321-328.
Rinck, M. (2016). Lernen: Ein Lehrbuch für Studium und Praxis. Stuttgart:
Kohlhammer.
Rinck, M., & Becker, E. S. (2005). A comparison of attentional biases and
memory biases in women with social phobia and major depression. Journal of
Abnormal Psychology, 114, 62-74.
Rinck, M., & Becker, E. S. (2006). Spider fearful individuals attend to
threat, then quickly avoid it: Evidence from eye movements. Journal of
Abnormal Psychology, 115, 213-238.
Rinck, M., & Becker, E. S. (2007). Approach and avoidance in fear of spiders.
Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 38, 105-120.
Rinck, M., Bundschuh, S., Engler, S., Müller, A., Wissmann, J., Ellwart, T., &
Becker, E.S. (2002). Reliabilität und Validität dreier Instrumente zur Messung
von Angst vor Spinnen. Diagnostica, 48, 141-149.
Rinck, M., Koene, M., Telli, S., van den Brink, W., Verhoeven, B., & Becker,
E. (2016). The time course of location-avoidance learning in fear of spiders.
Cognition and Emotion, 30, 430-443.
Rinck, M., Kwakkenbos, L., Dotsch, R., Wigboldus, D.H.J., & Becker, E.S.
(2010). Attentional and behavioral responses of spider fearfuls to virtual
spiders. Cognition and Emotion, 24, 1199-1206.
Rinck, M., Reinecke, A., Ellwart, T., Heuer, K., & Becker, E. S. (2005).
Speeded detection and increased distraction in fear of spiders: Evidence from
eye movements. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 114, 235-248.
Rinck, M., Rörtgen, T., Lange, W.-G., Dotsch, R., Wigboldus, D.H.J., & Becker,
E.S. (2010). Social anxiety predicts avoidance behavior in virtual encounters.
Cognition and Emotion, 24, 1269-1276.
Rinck, M., Telli, S., Kampmann, I.L., Woud, M.L., Kerstholt, M., te Velthuis,
S., Wittkowski, M., & Becker, E.S. (2013). Training approach-avoidance of
smiling faces affects emotional vulnerability in socially anxious individuals.
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience.
Schuck, K., Keijsers, G. P. J., & Rinck, M. (2012). Implicit processes in
pathological skin picking: Responses to skin irregularities predict symptom
severity and treatment susceptibility. Journal of Behavior Therapy and
Experimental Psychiatry, 43, 685-691.
Vrijsen, J.N., Lange, W.-G., Becker, E.S., & Rinck, M. (2010). Socially
anxious individuals lack unintentional mimicry. Behaviour Research and
Therapy, 48, 561-564.
Vrijsen, J.N., Lange, W.-G., Dotsch, R., Wigboldus, D.H.J., & Rinck, M.
(2010). How do socially anxious women evaluate mimicry? A virtual reality
study. Cognition and Emotion, 24, 840-847.
Vrijsen, J. N., van Oostrom, I., Speckens, A., Becker, E. S., & Rinck, M.
(2013). Approach and avoidance of emotional faces in happy and sad mood.
Cognitive Therapy and Research, 37, 1-6.
Wiers, C.E., Ludwig, V.U., Gladwin, T.E., Park, S.Q., Heinz, A., Wiers, R.W.,
Rinck, M., Lindenmeyer, J., Walter, H., & Bermpohl, F. (2015). Neural effects
of cognitive bias modification training on alcohol approach tendencies in male
alcohol-dependent patients. Addiction Biology, 20, 990-999.
Wiers, C.E., Stelzel, C., Gladwin, T.E., Park, S.Q., Pawelczack, S., Gawron,
C.K., Heinz, A., Wiers, R.W., Rinck, M., Lindenmeyer, J., Walter, H., &
Bermpohl, F. (2015). Effects of Cognitive Bias Modification training on neural
alcohol cue reactivity in alcohol-dependence. American Journal of Psychiatry,
172, 335-343.
Wiers, R. W., Eberl, C., Rinck, M., Becker, E. S., & Lindenmeyer, J. (2011).
Re-training automatic action tendencies changes alcoholic patients' approach
bias for alcohol and improves treatment outcome. Psychological Science, 22,
490-497.
Wiers, R. W., Rinck, M., Dictus, M., & van den Wildenberg, E. (2009).
Relatively strong automatic appetitive action tendencies in male carriers of
the OPRM1 G-Allele. Genes, Brain and Behavior, 8, 101-106.
Wiers, R. W., Rinck, M., Kordts, R., Houben, K., & Strack, F. (2010).
Retraining automatic action-tendencies to approach alcohol in hazardous
drinkers. Addiction, 105, 279-287.