Refereed Journal Publications
Fisher, J. T., Hopp, F. R., & Weber, R. (2023). Cognitive and perceptual load have opposing effects on brain network efficiency and behavioral variability in ADHD. Network Neuroscience. (Link)
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. (Link)
Youk, S., Malik, M., Chen, Y., Hopp, F. R., & Weber, R. (2023). Measures of intrinsic argument strength: A computational, large-scale analysis of effective persuasion in real-world debates. Communication Methods and Measures. (Link)
Fisher, J. T., Hopp, F. R., & Weber, R. (2023). Mapping attention across multiple media tasks. Media Psychology, 26(5), 505-529. (Link)
Fisher, J. T., Hopp, F. R., Chen, Y., & Weber, R. (2023). Uncovering the structure of media multitasking and attention problems using network analytic techniques. Computers in Human Behavior, 147, 107829. (Link)
Chen, Y., Youk, S., Wang, P. T., Pinti, P., & Weber, R. (2023). A calculus of probability or belief? Neural underpinnings of social decision-making in a card game. Neuropsychologia, 188, 108635. (Link)
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, 4(1), 208-253. (Link)
Chen, Y., Hopp, F. R., Malik, M., Wang, P. T., Woodman, K., Youk, S., & Weber, R. (2022). Reproducing FSL’s fMRI data analysis via Nipype: Relevance, challenges, and solutions. Frontiers in Neuroimaging, 1:953215. (Link)
Malik, M., Hopp, F. R., Chen, Y., & Weber, R. (2021). Does regional variation in
pathogen prevalence predict the moralization of language in COVID–19 news? Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 40(5-6), 653-676. Link
Hopp, F. R., & Weber, R.* (2021). Rejoinder: How methodological decisions impact the validity of moral content analyses. Communication Monographs, 88(3), 389–393. Link
Hopp, F. R., & Weber, R.* (2021). Reflections on extracting moral foundations from media content. Communication Monographs, 88(3), 371–379. Link
Grall, C., Tamborini, T., Weber, R., & Schmälzle, R. (2021). Stories Collectively Engage Listeners’ Brains: Enhanced Intersubject Correlations during Reception of Personal Narratives. Journal of Communication, 71(2), 332-335. Link
Fisher, J. T., Hopp, F. R., & Weber, R. (2021). A practical introduction to network neuroscience for communication researchers. Communication Methods and Measures. Link
Huskey, R., Turner, B., & Weber, R. (2020). Individual differences in brain responses: New opportunities for tailoring health communication campaigns. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 14, 531. Link
Levine, T. R., & Weber, R. (2020). Unresolved heterogeneity in meta-analysis: Combined construct invalidity, confounding, and other challenges to understanding mean effect sizes. Human Communication Research, 46(2-3), 343-354. Link
Hopp, F. R., Fisher, J. T., & Weber, R. (2020). A graph-learning approach for detecting moral conflicts in movie scripts. Media and Communication, 8(3), 164-179. Link
Carpenter, J., Brady, W., Crockett, M., Weber, R., & Sinnott-Armstrong, W. (in press). Political polarization and moral outrage on social media. The University of Connecticut Law Review. Link
Hopp, F.R., Fisher, J.T., 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. Link
Hopp, F. R., Fisher, J. T., & Weber, R. (2020). Dynamic transactions between news frames and sociopolitical events: An integrative, hidden markov model approach. Journal of Communication. Link
Weber, R., Behr, K. M., Fisher, J. T., Lonergan, C., & Quebral, C. (2020). Video game violence and interactivity: Effect or equivalence? Journal of Communication, 70(2), 219-244. Link.
Weber, R., & Hopp, F. R. (2020). Moral emotions and conflict motivate actions. Insights: Consumer Neuroscience in Business.
Dienlin, T., Johannes, N., Bowman, N., Masur, P. K., Engesser, S., … Weber, R., … DeVreese, C. (2020). An agenda for open science in communication. Journal of Communication. Link
Van Atteveldt, W., Margolin, D., Shen, C., Trilling, D., & Weber, R. (2019). A roadmap for computational communication research. Computational Communication Research, 1(1), 1-11. Link
Hopp, F. R., Schaffer, J. A., Fisher, J. T., Cornell, D., & Weber, R. (2019). iCoRe: The GDELT interface for the advancement of communication research. Computational Communication Research, 1(1), 13-44. Link
Klasen, M., Wolf, D., Eisner, P. D., Eggermann, T., Zerres, K., Zepf, F. D., Weber, R., Mathiak, K. (2019). Serotonergic contributions to human brain aggression networks. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 13, 42. Link