Frederic R. Hopp

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...

Wonderful news Josh, congratulations!

Thank you so much and for all the continuing support!

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!

#108: Characters Matter with Matt Grizzard Opinion Science · Episode

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...

A semantic map of the situations described across all posts. The most frequently occurring situations pertained to family (21%), the office (8.4%), and weddings (4.2%).

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...

GitHub - Moral-Computing-Lab/ccn25_emorality: This official repo for the CCN 2025 workshop: Modelling Emotion and Morality in Brain and Machine This official repo for the CCN 2025 workshop: Modelling Emotion and Morality in Brain and Machine - Moral-Computing-Lab/ccn25_emorality

⚖️❤️ 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.

Congrats Steve!

@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😎)

Language-like efficiency in whale communication Whale vocalizations follow efficiency rules seen in human language, revealing striking similarities in communication systems.

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 :)

Thanks Bine! Let’s catch up soon :)

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 The Platonic Representation Hypothesis claims that recent foundation models are converging to a shared representation space as a function of their downstream task performance, irrespective of the obje...

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

Why experimental variation in neuroimaging should be embraced - Nature Communications Brain imaging analysis lacks accessible ground-truth approaches, leading to varied results across the field. Embracing analytical variability may allow researchers to enhance the generalizability of f...

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.

YouTube video by batxg3 Feynman_i_dont_like_honors_ [longer_version]

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