Frederic R. Hopp

Come to work with me! I am looking for a PhD researcher (f/m/d) for a 4-year research project on the impact of negative emotions on the formation of conspiracy beliefs - considering appraisals theories and emotion regulation. Ideal starting: 03/27 leibniz-psychology.onlyfy.jobs/de/job/snmy3...

Interdisciplinary research is great and necessary, and also has consistently lower funding success www.nature.com/articles/nat... #academiclabourmarket #academia #research

Reference limits can exacerbate biased citation behavior! In my current commentary article on the work of @kaileylawson.bsky.social, @brettmurpsych.bsky.social, et al. (2025), I provide empirical support for this thesis. Now published #OA @collabrapsychology.bsky.social 👉 doi.org/10.1525/coll...

I’m hiring a PhD student to work with me on metascience in psychology at @zpid.bsky.social! The position is very open - could cover a wide range of topics/themes 🤸🏻‍♀️✨ If you have questions, please reach out! Applications are open until October 1st. leibniz-psychology.onlyfy.jobs/en/job/fyjwt...

I’m honored and excited to share that I’ve been elected into the Junge Akademie. Beyond the privilege of joining such an inspiring group of people, I’m looking forward to the projects and collaborations ahead — and to working together on questions that matter, both scientifically and for society.

Fellow Europeans, did you know about this alternative to COS/OSF? They have upload templates for the usual academic formats, but also data and even Bachelor's /Master's theses. www.psycharchives.org/en

@marlephie.bsky.social kicking off the Monday lectures with a very inspiring talk about trust in science/scientists, stereotypes of scientific disciplines, and science communication. 🔬🧬🥼🧑‍🔬

Moral psychology flourishes because of our variation in moral values both within and across cultures. I'm happy to see that our registered report protocol for developing and validating the MFQ-2 in German populations is out now! Next up: Data collection and analysis ⚖️ 💻

No matter where they live, kids cooperate according to their community’s social norms by middle childhood. Learn more in #ScienceAdvances: https://scim.ag/4r0Rxga

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 👇

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.

At 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.

Researchers 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 🚀

New 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...

Would 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.

@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!

I’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!

🚀 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!

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...

Reddit’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 📕

I’m looking forward to my first #BookaScientist and interesting questions on #AI and #morality.

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.

@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😎)

Do 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/...

👉 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.

(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!

🚨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!

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 :)

We have lift off! 🚀Super excited to be working with these brilliant researchers on integrating #sciencereception, #metascience, and #computation in #psychology.

Training 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

I 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 👇

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

What 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/Kr8RqgD

Joining 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.

In view of the recent discussions concerning the Nobel price, a gentle reminder from Feynman: www.youtube.com/watch?v=f61K...

New 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

Paper 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...