Participants
depressed
We recruited participants via emails and flyers at the University Hospital of Tuebingen, the University of Tuebingen and via outpatient psychotherapists. All procedures are in line with the Declaration of Helsinki in its latest version and were approved by the ethics committee at the University Hospital and University of Tuebingen. The study protocol is registered at In the final sample we collected data of 56 depressed patients and of 43 healthy controls. Sample sizes were determined by a previously performed power analysis that identified 42 patients and 42 healthy controls as needed. In the study at hand, only the clinical sample will be analyzed, which after dropouts was composed of the data of 42 patients (see Flow of participants. 