Profile Frederic Hopp

Jun.-Prof. Dr. Frederic Hopp

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  • Assistant Professor (UD2) Amsterdam School of Communication Research, University of Amsterdam 2021-2024
  • Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Communication, University of California, Santa Barbara 2021
  • Master of Arts (M.A.) in Communication, University of California, Santa Barbara 2018
  • Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Media- and Communication Studies, University of Mannheim 2016

 

Research Interests

Moral Psychology, NeuroAI, Natural Language Processing, Deep Neural Networks

 

Publications (selection)

  • Musa, N. S., Müller, S. M., & Hopp, F. R. (2026). Validation of the moral foundations questionnaire-2 (MFQ-2) in Germany: Psychometric properties and associations with political ideology, religiosity, and personality. PloS one, 21(3), e0345599.
  • Hopp, F. R., Youk, S., Amir, O., Malik, M., Woodman, K., Wheeler, B., ... & Weber, R. (2026). The Moral Foundations MRI Collection: A Multi-Center, Multi-Country Functional MRI Collection for Evaluating Moral Judgment. Pre-print available at http://dx.doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.21564
  • Stecker, M. & Hopp, F.R. (2026). Moral foundation measurements fail to converge on multilingual party manifestos. Political Analysis. 
  • Hopp, F. R., Youk, S., Sinnott-Armstrong, W., & Weber, R. (2025). A sensitive and specific neural signature robustly predicts graded computations of moral wrongness. Pre-print available https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-7935407/v1
  • Lauer, T., Drożdż, K., Müller, S., & Hopp, F. R. (2025). MoralNet: Visual representations of moral intuitions in artificial and biological neural networks. Cognitive Computational Neuroscience. https://2025.ccneuro.org/poster/?id=zYSAS7tTWO
  • Weber, R., Hopp, F.R., Eden, A., Fisher, J.T., Lee, H.E. (2024). Vicarious punishment of moral violations in naturalistic drama narratives predicts cortical synchronization. NeuroImage.
  • Hopp, F.R., Jargow, B., Kouwen, E., & Bakker, B.N. (2024). The Dutch moral foundations stimulus database: A validation of standardized vignettes and images. Judgment and Decision Making.
  • Hopp, F.R., Amir, O., Fisher, J.T., Grafton, S., Sinnott-Armstrong, W., & Weber, R. (2023). Moral foundations elicit shared and dissociable cortical activation modulated by political ideology. Nature Human Behavior.
  • Malik, M., Hopp, F.R., & Weber, R. (2022). Representations of racial minorities in popular movies: A content-analytic synergy of computer vision and network science. Computational Communication Research.
  • Malik, M., Hopp, F.R., Chen, Y., & Weber, R. (2021). Does regional variation in pathogen prevalence predict the moralization of COVID-19 in online news? Journal of Language and Social Psychology.
  • Hopp, F.R., & Weber, R. (2021). Reflections on extracting moral foundations from media content. Communication Monographs.
  • Hopp, F.R., Fisher, J., Cornell, D., Huskey, R., & Weber, R. (2020). The extended moral foundations dictionary (eMFD): Development and applications of a crowd-sourced approach to extracting moral intuitions from text. Behavior Research Methods.
  • Hopp, F.R., Fisher, J., & Weber, R. (2020). A graph-learning approach for detecting moral conflict in movie scripts. Media and Communication.
  • Hopp, F.R., Fisher, J., & Weber, R. (2020). Dynamic transactions between news frames and sociopolitical events: An integrative, hidden markov model approach. Journal of Communication.

 

Third-party funds (selection)

  • Bridging Divides: The Role of Mindfulness and Perspective-Taking in Reducing Political Polarization (with Co-PIs Bathelt, J. & Bakker, B.N., RPA Polarisation Seed Grant, University of Amsterdam)
  • Moral dilemmas in politics: How moral conflict shapes discourse and decision-making (with Co-PIs Bos, L. & Hameleers, M., University of Amsterdam Starter Grant)
  • George D. McCune Dissertation Fellowship (University of California, Santa Barbara)
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