Edward Clarke Ph. D.

Short biography

• 2021 - present
  Postdoc, Philipps-Universtität Marburg
• 2019 - 2021
  Lecturer, Federation University Australia
• 2018
  Assistant Lecturer, Monash University
• 2011-2018
  Psychology (PhD) Deakin University,
  Thesis: "Climate Change Denial: The Effects of Ideological Polarisation and Threat"
• 2010
  Graduate Diploma (Psychology), Deakin University
• 2005-2008
  Bachelor of Arts, University of Melbourne

Research interests

- Collective climate change action
- Conceptualisation and measurement of political ideologies
- System change and maintenance
- Critical social psychology
- Structural attributions

Publications

Clarke, E. J. R., Eckerle, F., Kerr, J. R., Hill, S. R., Ling, M., Marques, M. D., & Williams, M. N. (2025). Extremism at the center: Uncovering political diversity among midpoint responders on the left–right self-placement item. Political Psychology, 00, 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1111/pops.70082 

Eckerle, F., Clarke, E. J.R., & Landmann, H. (2025). When the Means are no Dead End: Effects of Witnessing Direct Collective Action for Traffic Transformation. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 102851. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102851

Eckerle, F., Clarke, E. J. R., Lutz, A. E. (2024). Wider die Reproduktion neoliberaler Ideologien in der Umwelt- und Sozialpsychologie. Kritische Umweltpsychologie: Krisen verstehen, Handlungsfähigkeit entwickeln, 61-86. Psychosozial Verlag. doi.org/10.30820/9783837962574

Williams, M. N., Ling, M., Kerr, J. R., Hill, S. R., Marques, M. D., Mawson, H., & Clarke, E. J. R. (2024). People do change their beliefs about conspiracy theories—but not often. Scientific Reports, 14(1), 3836. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-51653-z

Jylhä, K. M., Stanley, S. K., Ojala, M., & Clarke, E. J. R. (2023). Science Denial: A Narrative Review and Recommendations for Future Research and Practice. European Psychologist, 28(3), 151–161. https://doi.org/10.1027/1016-9040/a000487

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, 16:3, 289-295, DOI: 10.1080/17524032.2022.2032244

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, 10(2), 706-722. https://doi.org/10.5964/jspp.6371

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, 175, 17. 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, 57:3, 264-279, DOI: 10.1080/10361146.2022.2122773

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

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, 16(2): e0246058. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0246058

Clarke, E. J. R., Ling, M., Kothe, E. J., & Klas, A., Richardson, B. (2019). Perceived Mitigation Threat Partially Mediates Effects of Right-Wing Ideologies on Climate Change Beliefs. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 49, 349– 360. https://doi.org/10.1111/jasp.12585