Publications
2026
Clarke, E. J. R., Eckerle, F., Kerr, J. R., Hill, S. R., Ling, M., Marques, M. D., & Williams, M. N. (2026). Extremism at the center: Uncovering political diversity among midpoint responders on the left–right self-placement item. Political Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1111/pops.70082
Williams, M., Marques, M. D., Ling, M., Hill, S., Kerr, J., Clarke, E. J. R., Martin, A., & Ross, R. (2026). Do you really believe that? Examining the prevalence and predictors of belief in conspiracy theories when accounting for insincerity. Royal Society Open Science. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.260163
Aarons, F., Clarke, E. J. R., & Klas, A. (2026). Ideological and partisan predictors of support for climate change policy. Psychological Reports. https://doi.org/10.1177/00332941261428074
Marques, M. D., Williams, M. N., Clarke, E. J. R., Fida, N., Heffernan, J., Hill, S. R., Kerr, J. R., Ling, M., Parkinson, C., Thermos, M., & Tier, J. (2026). Testing the socio-functional model: Does precarity cause conspiracy belief? British Journal of Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.70037
Kazarovytska, F., Árnadóttir, K., D’Ottone, S., Clarke, E. J. R., et al. (2026). Do people across the world want to remember positive ingroup histories? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspi0000513
Eckerle, F., Clarke, E. J. R., & Landmann, H. (2026). When the means are no dead end: Effects of witnessing direct collective action for traffic transformation. Journal of Environmental Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102851
2025
Williams, M. N., Marques, M. D., Kerr, J. R., Hill, S. R., Ling, M., & Clarke, E. J. R. (2025). Does developing a belief in one conspiracy theory lead a person to be more likely to believe in others? European Journal of Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.3153
2024
Williams, M., Ling, M., Kerr, J., Hill, S., Marques, M. D., Mawson, H., & Clarke, E. J. R. (2024). People do change their beliefs about conspiracy theories—but not often. Scientific Reports. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-51653-z
2023
Lizzio-Wilson, M., Klas, A., & Clarke, E. J. R. (2023). When ‘good guys’ do bad things: Evaluations of sexual harassment allegations against male allies. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations. https://doi.org/10.1177/13684302221094432
Jylhä, K. M., Stanley, S. K., Ojala, M., & Clarke, E. J. R. (2023). Science denial. European Psychologist. https://doi.org/10.1027/1016-9040/a000487
2022
Clarke, E. J. R., Klas, A., Lizzio-Wilson, M., & Kothe, E. J. (2022). Partisan bias in responses to sexual misconduct allegations against male politicians. Journal of Social and Political Psychology. https://doi.org/10.5964/jspp.6371
Clarke, E. J. R., Klas, A., Stevenson, J., & Kothe, E. J. (2022). The role of late-night infotainment comedy in communicating climate change consensus. Environmental Communication. https://doi.org/10.1080/17524032.2022.2032244
Klas, A., Clarke, E. J. R., Fielding, K., Mackay, M., Lohmann, S., & Ling, M. (2022). Investigating how economic and national identity loss messages impact climate change policy support. Climatic Change. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-022-03472-2
Marques, M. D., Hill, S. R., Clarke, E. J. R., Williams, M. N., Ling, M., Kerr, J. R., Douglas, K. M., Cichocka, A., & Sibley, C. G. (2022). Democracy and belief in conspiracy theories in New Zealand. Australian Journal of Political Science. https://doi.org/10.1080/10361146.2022.2122773
2021
Stanley, S. K., Klas, A., Clarke, E. J. R., & Walker, I. (2021). The effects of a temporal framing manipulation on environmentalism: A replication and extension. PLoS ONE. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0246058
Clarke, E. J. R., Klas, A., & Dyos, E. (2021). The role of ideological attitudes in responses to COVID-19 threat and government restrictions in Australia. Personality and Individual Differences. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2021.110734
2019
Clarke, E. J. R., Ling, M., Kothe, E. J., Klas, A., & Richardson, B. (2019). Mitigation system threat partially mediates the effects of right-wing ideologies on climate change beliefs. Journal of Applied Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1111/jasp.12585
Klas, A., Zinkiewicz, L., Zhou, J., & Clarke, E. J. R. (2019). “Not all environmentalists are like that…”: Unpacking the negative and positive beliefs and perceptions of environmentalists. Environmental Communication. https://doi.org/10.1080/17524032.2018.1488755
Book Chapters
Klas, A., & Clarke, E. J. R. (2020). The role of psychological variables in developing effective climate change message frames. In Research Handbook on Communicating Climate Change. Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789900408.00018
Eckerle, F., Clarke, E. J. R., & Lutz, A. (2024). Wider die Reproduktion neoliberaler Ideologien in der Umwelt- und Sozialpsychologie. In Psychologists/Psychotherapists for Future e. V. & Arbeitskreis Kritische Umweltpsychologie der Initiative Psychologie im Umweltschutz e. V. (Eds.), Kritische Umweltpsychologie. Psychosozial-Verlag, Gießen. https://doi.org/10.30820/9783837962574-61
Thesis
Clarke, E. (2017). Climate change denial: The effects of ideological polarisation and threat. PhD Thesis, Deakin University. PDF
Preprints & Working Papers
Clarke, E. J. R., & Eckerle, F. (2026). Critical empowerment: Awareness of the structural roots of climate change and fostering transformational solutions. Preprint. https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/djtu3_v1/
Aarons, F., Eckerle, F., & Clarke, E. J. R. (2026). From engaged trusters to disengaged distrusters: Exploring political engagement styles and their relationship to partisanship. Preprint. https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/st3gw_v1/
Acar, Y. G., Vestergren, S., Eckerle, F., Clarke, E. J. R., et al. (2025). Beyond the politics of demand: Prefigurative politics and the future of collective action research. Preprint. https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/h2up6_v1/
Aarons, F., & Clarke, E. J. R. (2025). “You can not like cake but still have a favourite”: How people evaluate and engage with political parties in multi-party systems. Preprint. https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/3nshj_v1/
Clarke, E. J. R., Stanley, S., Klas, A., & Dyos, E. (2024). A cross-sectional and experimental test of a climate policy systems threat account of climate change denial. Preprint. https://osf.io/b3ge7_v4/
Loram, G., Ling, M., Head, A., & Clarke, E. J. R. (2019). Validation of a novel climate change denial measure using item response theory. Preprint. https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/57nbk_v1/