The International Communication Association has honored Frederic Hopp with the “Rising Star in Communication Award”. Frederic Hopp is Juniorprofessor (Asst. Professor) for Big Data in Psychology at the Leibniz Institute for Psychology (ZPID) and principal researcher of the Moral Computing Lab. His research examines how morality permeates human communication and how moralized messages are cognitively processed and motivate behavior. His recent work examines how neural activation patterns give rise to moral judgments, and how large language models align with humans moral judgments.
His work has been published in leading scientific journals including Nature Human Behavior, Journal of Communication, and Communication Methods & Measures. His research has been recognized by ICA (Annie Lang Dissertation Award) and the McCune Foundation (George D. McCune Dissertation Fellowship).