Frederic R. Hopp
Jun. Professor for Big Data in Psychology at Leibniz Institute for Psychology (ZPID) and U of Trier | PI Moral Computing Lab | https://fhopp.github.io
- Do character networks predict story telling success? In a new study led by the amazing @gongxuanjun.bsky.social we pursue this question. Preprint is available 👇
- Enjoying Stranger Things during the holiday season? Have you thought about why some stories are more successful than others? Our new preprint investigates this question by studying the character networks in the narratives: osf.io/preprints/ps...
- It’s been a pleasure presenting our recent work on neural biomarkers of morality at #ICANDay2025. Hopefully, shifting from brain maps to neural models will help us to develop a more precise and reliable moral neuroscience.
- Very inspiring keynote by @fhopp.bsky.social at #ICANDay2025: “From Maps to Models: A Paradigm Shift for Moral Neuroscience.” A fascinating case for moving beyond brain mapping toward predictive modeling and multivariate neural decoding to better understand morality in the brain.
- Reposted by Frederic R. HoppAt ZPID we are searching for a tenure track assistant professor for Psychological Metascience in joint appointment with @unitrier.bsky.social preferably someone who has conducted quantitative research in metascience in psychology or related disciplines. Questions? Feel free to contact me personally.
- Reposted by Frederic R. HoppResearchers are often advised to "reveal the person behind the science" in #scicomm to appear more approachable and trustworthy to their audiences. But does this really work? 🤔 In this short piece for Current Opinion in Psych, I review the recent literature... 👇 1/3 doi.org/10.1016/j.co...
- Really excited to see this work out! In her *first* dissertation chapter, Anna combined NLP and semantic network analysis to examine #moralization of populist rhetoric in the multiparty system of the Netherlands. Follow-up studies are currently on their way 🚀
- My first publication :) in Social Media + Society with @fhopp.bsky.social, Michael Hameleers & @lindabos.bsky.social: “Moral Foundations of Populist Communication.” We found populists lean more on Care/Authority plus they shift moral tone across platforms more than mainstreamers. shorturl.at/ip9i4
- Reposted by Frederic R. HoppNew pre-print! Is there a need for domain-specificity when studying mental health (MH) and politics? In our study in the Netherlands, we find political mental health (PMH) is distinct from MH & has unique political correlates, from polarization to ideological extremism. doi.org/10.31234/osf...
- Reposted by Frederic R. HoppWould you let AI cheat for you? Our new paper in @nature.com, 5 years in the making, is out today. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- 🚨 Be aware of the tool pile for measuring moral foundations 🚨 In a new multiverse analysis led by @marvins.bsky.social , we report that existing moral foundation measurements (surprisingly?) fail to converge on multilingual party manifestos, with implications for substantial research questions.
- New publication, out in Political Analysis: There is an increasing array of tools to measure facets of morality in political language. But while they ostensibly measure the same concept, do they actually? I and @fhopp.bsky.social set out to see what happens.
- @t-1m.bsky.social doing an excellent job presenting our work on MoralNet at #CCN2025 where we explore the alignment between brains and machines during moral perception.
- 🧠❤️🤖⚖️ We had an inspiring and fun satellite event at #CCN2025 forging new research ideas at the intersection of emotion, morality, and brains. Excited for next steps!
- Reposted by Frederic R. HoppI’m excited to share my first first-authored paper with @abitter.bsky.social in the Journal of Happiness Studies: “The Emotional Climate of Academia: Exploring Social Media Data as an Indicator of Well‑Being.” 📖 Read it here (OA): link.springer.com/article/10.1...
- I am truly grateful and honored to receive the rising star award by the wonderful @icacsab.bsky.social A huge thank you to everyone for their support along this wonderful journey. Science is a team sport that would not be possible without you!
- We want to congratulate @fhopp.bsky.social at the Leibniz Institute for Psychology (ZPID) for receiving the Rising Star in Communication Science Award 💫 for his excellent work in moralized messages and how large language models align with humans’ moral judgements. Watch out for this rising star!!
- 🚀 Very happy (and proud!) that rockstar @michelleschimmel.bsky.social received a top student paper for her MSc thesis, which I had the pleasure to supervise. Excited to see this work out soon!
- Congratulations to @michelleschimmel.bsky.social and @fhopp.bsky.social on receiving a Top Student Paper Award for their work “Engage and divide: The role of moral language for cross-ideological interactions on social media” #ICA25
- Do you enjoy good stories? Tune into the latest episode of Opinion Science, where @mattgrizz.bsky.social talks about how and why we enjoy character-driven narratives. Shoutout to @andyluttrell.bsky.social for another great episode! open.spotify.com/episode/3Hpf...
- Reposted by Frederic R. HoppReddit’s AITA? board is a goldmine of data on how real people conceptualize and solve moral dilemmas. A study of posts on the board finds that the nature of the relationships between people in a dilemma is central to moral decision making. In PNAS Nexus: academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
- ⚖️❤️ Please share widely 🧠🤖 If you are attending #CCN25 and are interested in #emotion and #morality, @pkragel.bsky.social and I are organizing a collaborative, hands-on satellite event @cogcompneuro.bsky.social. More info, including sign-up link below: github.com/Moral-Comput...
- If you are interested in extracting moral values from text corpora, check out our latest resource, the extended Morality as Cooperation Dictionary (eMACD). Led by the brilliant @musamalik.bsky.social, we show that eMACD surpasses the (predictive) validity of previous moral foundations dictionaries 📕
- Finally, it is published 😀 open access: The Extended Morality as Cooperation Dictionary (eMACD): A Crowd-Sourced Approach via the Moral Narrative Analyzer Platform www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.....
- Are we allowed to lie to protect someone? And how would an #AI decide? 🤖⚖ Frederic Hopp is part of #BookaScientist and answers your questions about human and artificial #morality!🧠💬 📅Book your time slot now: www.leibniz-gemeinschaft.de/ueber-uns/ne... #psychology #ZPID @leibniz-gemeinschaft.de
- Are LLMs impartial moral judges? @sarahmlr.bsky.social doing an excellent job sharing our first results at #MoralMedia25, highlighting that LLMs rate moral violations from ingroup members less severely than the same actions committed by outgroup members.
- Reposted by Frederic R. Hopp@curtispuryear.bsky.social a study of a decade of twitter posts shows and new measure of moralization shows that moralization has substantially increased over time (d = .45!). Driven by both self selection and within-user increase over time! #comppsych #spsp2025 (also stay tuned for this paper😎)
- Reposted by Frederic R. HoppDo whales optimize their vocalizations for efficiency, just like human language? 🐋🎶 My latest study in Science Advances (@science.org) suggests they do—following linguistic laws seen in human speech. 🧵 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- Reposted by Frederic R. Hopp👉 Vertrauen in Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler ist moderat hoch 👈 @marlephie.bsky.social aus dem ZPID ist an 68-Länder-Befragung beteiligt Infos, DOI u. Links zu @naturehumbehav.bsky.social & zum Beitrag mit @lauramkoenig.bsky.social bei InMind: ➡️ leibniz-psychology.org/news/detail/...
- In a new study led by @delaneypeterson.bsky.social , we show how loneliness correlates with support for the populist radical right. Short summary and paper link in the thread below.
- Does loneliness correlate with support for the populist radical right? In the Netherlands, yes-lonelier individuals were more likely to support the PRR across 15 years of data (2008-2023), with effect sizes comparable to health correlates of loneliness. (1/9) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Reposted by Frederic R. Hopp(1/4) Our new JEP:G paper dives into how moral values and misinformation spread on social media: media.mola-lab.org/file/1737039...
- Truly excited to be a keynote speaker at this year's Moral Media conference! If you are interested in ⚖️ and 📺 in a 🌎 context, please consider applying!
- Thrilled to announce keynote speakers for #moralmedia25 - Drs. Helena Bilandzic (U Augsburg), @mdehghani.bsky.social (U Southern California), @aeden.bsky.social (Michigan State U), & @fhopp.bsky.social (Leibniz Institute for Psychology). Submissions are due Feb 2!
- Reposted by Frederic R. Hopp🚨New Preprint🚨 *Moral Stereotyping in Large Language Models* We show that LLMs are inaccurate in estimating the moral values of diverse cultures: LLMs stereotype cultures in predictable ways. Led by my star Ph.D. student, Aliah Zewail osf.io/preprints/ps...
- Busy bookworm or targeted hunter? Check out this amazing work on using computational modeling for exploring #curiosity in book selection!
- In Jan 2022, over 🌮s, Jason & I kicked off a project on sequential media selection. A theory article (doi.org/10.1093/hcr/...) laid the foundation. Now, a new preprint using real-world data, careful experimentation, & computational modeling shows how curiosity modulates exploration. Way to go Jason!
- We checked all boxes for a great research retreat! ✅ Exchanged interests and expertise ✅ Forged new collaborations ✅ Stayed in an old castle in the middle of nowhere :)
- Excited for the research retreat from @zpid.bsky.social with @kaisassenberg.bsky.social @svenjabfrenzel.bsky.social @claudiaaraya.bsky.social @cspetrule.bsky.social @abitter.bsky.social @fhopp.bsky.social @marlephie.bsky.social and many more :)
- We have lift off! 🚀Super excited to be working with these brilliant researchers on integrating #sciencereception, #metascience, and #computation in #psychology.
- How marvelous! 😍 @marlephie.bsky.social, Kinga Bierwiaczonek und @fhopp.bsky.social hold joint junior professorships at the @zpid.bsky.social and @unitrier.bsky.social. ➡️https://leibniz-psychology.org/en/news/detail/three-junior-professorships-for-research-at-zpid #psychology #research
- Reposted by Frederic R. HoppTraining objective drives the consistency of representational similarity across datasets Laure Ciernik, Lorenz Linhardt, …, Simon Kornblith, Lukas Muttenthaler @lukasmut.bsky.social 👉 Indeed, people need to better appreciate the interaction of datasets and hypotheses arxiv.org/abs/2411.05561
- Reposted by Frederic R. HoppI figure a fitting start to my life on this 'new' app is to share a recent piece I put out in Nature Communications. @natureportfolio.bsky.social 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... Checkout my ported 🧵 from the-other-site, below 👇
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After a great conference in Boston, CCN is going to take place in Amsterdam in 2025! To help the exchange of ideas between #neuroscience, cognitive science, and #AI, CCN will for the first time have full length paper submissions (alongside the established 2 pagers)! Info below👇 #NeuroAI #CompNeuro - Reposted by Frederic R. HoppWhat makes people good? And who decides what's good? What drives moral outrage? Why are we often hypocrites? Can you cultivate empathy & compassion, even across social/political divides? Is religion a moral guide or hindrance? If you want insights into these perennial questions 👇🏼 go.bsky.app/Kr8RqgDat://did:plc:i7drecsx5mlt2a2zlayrsprh/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3laqztssc2w2o
- Reposted by Frederic R. HoppJoining the club! A social and affective neuroscience starter pack! go.bsky.app/MXAKEYN A very partial list. Let us know if you would like to be added.at://did:plc:52cuu4htnvya4dplf35yvu4s/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3laptvspdpv2k
- In view of the recent discussions concerning the Nobel price, a gentle reminder from Feynman: www.youtube.com/watch?v=f61K...
- Reposted by Frederic R. HoppNew publication in Political Behavior: rdcu.be/dOhJ2 Very happy to see this paper with @maierjuergen.bsky.social @monadian.bsky.social and @sgeber.bsky.social printed. In preregistered candidate survery (N = 1.087), we identify social norms as a driver on candidates use of negative campaigning
- 1/3: Big Personal News: I am thrilled to be joining the Leibniz Institute for Psychology @zpid.bsky.social as Juniorprofessor for Big Data in Psychology! 🤖⚖️🧠
- 2/3: Together with two emerging teams on meta-science and science reception, you will be joining an interdisciplinary research hub in Germany’s oldest city of Trier, have access to cutting-edge compute power, and the amazing @unitrier.bsky.social Come join us...
- 3/3 Starting in October, I am looking for a PhD student (75% TV-L E13, 3+1 years) interested in moral psychology, machine/deep learning, and data science. Please RETWEET: leibniz-psychology.onlyfy.jobs/job/90o408mf
- Reposted by Frederic R. HoppPaper w/ @scottclifford.bsky.social accepted at APSR! Are moral values distinct from values? How? Based on the insight that morality is about cooperation, we find variation in moralization of a total of 21 values and that disagreement on moral values is uniquely divisive. jaeheejung.com/research/
- 🇳🇱 New Paper ⚖️ We provide an adapted stimulus database of moral vignettes and socio-moral images for studying moral judgment in Dutch populations. We also report similarities and differences in moral judgment between US/Australian and Dutch samples: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
- Reposted by Frederic R. HoppNew preprint from @chujunlin.bsky.social & me! "Bottom-up and top-down information determinants of naturalistic trait impression updating" osf.io/preprints/ps... #psychology #socialpsyc #PsychSciSky 🧪
- Reposted by Frederic R. HoppNew paper demonstrating the hidden cost of receiving favors led by Xiaoxue Gao with @eshjolly.bsky.social, Hongbo Yu, Huiying Liu, & Xiaolin Zhou. We demonstrate that brain patterns of emotional states can be integrated with economic utility models to predict reciprocity behavior bit.ly/41Pm7O2.
- Reposted by Frederic R. HoppWishing you a Happy New Year from the entire Hot Politics Lab team! We're starting off 2024 with an enlightening talk by @jmping.bsky.social on the adoption of biased political attitudes. We hope to see you in the Common Room (REC-B9.22) or online via teams.microsoft.com/dl/launcher/....
- Reposted by Frederic R. HoppAttention neuroscientsts! We just launched Neurosynth Compose: A free and open platform for neuroimaging meta-analysis. NS-Compose makes it easy to perform custom neuroimaging meta-analyses without leaving the browser. It's live, check it out! compose.neurosynth.org
