Frederic Hopp

Frederic Hopp is an Assistant Professor (UD2) at the Amsterdam School of Communication Research, University of Amsterdam (2021-2024). He holds a Ph.D. in Communication from the University of California, Santa Barbara (2021), an M.A. in Communication (2018), and a B.A. in Media and Communication Studies from the University of Mannheim (2016). His research focuses on moral psychology, neuroAI, natural language processing, and deep neural networks, with emphasis on applying computational methods to study moral cognition, political polarization, and societal threat perceptions. He leads projects funded by grants like 'Bridging Divides: The Role of Mindfulness and Perspective-Taking in Reducing Political Polarization' (RPA Seed Grant) and 'Moral Dilemmas in Politics' (University of Amsterdam Starter Grant).

• Education:
• Ph.D. in Communication, UCSB (2021)
• M.A. in Communication, UCSB (2018)
• B.A. in Media/Communication Studies, University of Mannheim (2016)

His work bridges neuroscience and computational methods, such as fMRI studies on moral violations and cortical synchronization, validation of moral stimulus databases, and network science approaches to media content analysis. He pioneered the Extended Moral Foundations Dictionary (eMFD) using crowd-sourced text analysis. Recent studies examine how moral conflict shapes political discourse and how media narratives influence collective empathy.

Awards include the George D. McCune Dissertation Fellowship (UCSB). He collaborates with labs like the Moral Computing Lab and ZPID's Big Data in Psychology unit, focusing on large-scale data integration and AI-driven social science research.