About the Authors

Mareike Hofmann

mareike.hofmann@psycho.med.uni-giessen.de

Affiliation Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University of Giessen, Giessen, Germany

Birgit Köhler

Affiliation Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University of Giessen, Giessen, Germany

Falk Leichsenring

Affiliation Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University of Giessen, Giessen, Germany

Johannes Kruse

Affiliations Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University of Giessen, Giessen, Germany, Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MH FL JK. Analyzed the data: MH BK JK. Wrote the paper: MH BK.