Clint Knight

Biography

Clinton Knight is a social and political psychologist with work and interests grounded in intergroup processes, social cognition, and individual differences.

Specific interests include:

Acquisition and development of political and religious ideologies.
Institutional theories of coercion and control.
System legitimizing biases including patriotism and nationalism, collective consciousness, apathy and insight blindness.
Prejudice and ex-offender reintegration.
Psychology of collective action, conflict and terrorism.

Available projects for Honours and Post Graduate students:

Ex-offender reintegration (acceptance and resistance).
Willingess to engage in collective action as a function of identity, patriotism and nationalism.

Teaching

Taught Modules

[PY4203] The Psychology of Health, Wellbeing and ResilienceCoordinator, Lecturer

2022

[PY4210] Research and Statistics for PsychologyCoordinator

2021

[PY4209] Principles of CounsellingLecturer

2021

Activities

Education

PhD; BPsySc (Hons 1), The University of Queensland

Associations

Society of Australasian Social Psychologists

Output

Gender-based in-group social influence can lead women to view a hostile sexist attitude as less prejudiced and more true

2024

Platow, Michael J.; Strong, Isadora; Grace, Diana M.; Knight, Clinton G.; Augoustinos, Martha; Bar-Tal, Daniel; Spears, Russell; Van Rooy, Dirk (2024) 'Gender-based in-group social influence can lead women to view a hostile sexist attitude as less prejudiced and more true'. Journal of Social Psychology, 164 (6):995-1007. [DOI]

Journal Publication ResearchOnline@JCU

“We’re tolerant and they’re prejudiced”: Same-sex marriage supporters’ and opponents’ perceptions of supportive and oppositional claims

2023

Platow, Michael J.; Knight, Clinton G.; Van Rooy, Dirk; Augoustinos, Martha; Bar-Tal, Daniel; Spears, Russell (2023) '“We’re tolerant and they’re prejudiced”: Same-sex marriage supporters’ and opponents’ perceptions of supportive and oppositional claims'. PLOS ONE, 18 (8). [DOI]

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Lay perceptions of modern prejudice toward "White" and "Asian" people: It matters who said it, whom it's about, and who's judging

2022

Platow, Michael J.; Van Rooy, Dirk; Wang, Chris; Ollis, Lara; Knight, Clinton G.; Blakey, Parker; Calaby, Pablo; Cho, Haejung; Kim, Jeongin; Naar, Hayden; Oh, Jordan Veng Thang; Stoney, Corinne; Wilson-Woolley, Kate; Augoustinos, Martha; Bar Tal, Daniel; Spears, Russell (2022) 'Lay perceptions of modern prejudice toward White and Asian people: It matters who said it, whom it's about, and who's judging'. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 25 (4):674-687. [DOI]

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Moral vitalism: seeing good and evil as real, agentic forces

2015

Bastian, Brock; Bain, Paul; Buhrmester, Michael D.; Gómez, Ángel; Vázquez, Alexandra; Knight, Clinton G.; Swann, William B. (2015) 'Moral vitalism: seeing good and evil as real, agentic forces'. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 41 (8):1069-1081. [DOI]

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From fighting the system to embracing it: control loss promotes system justification among those high in psychological reactance

2014

Knight, Clinton G.; Tobin, Stephanie J.; Hornsey, Matthew J. (2014) 'From fighting the system to embracing it: control loss promotes system justification among those high in psychological reactance'. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 54 :139-146. [DOI]

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