Frederic R. Hopp

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
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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.

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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.

Congrats Ale!

@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...

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!

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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

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