Charlie R Crimston
Biographic Data
| ID | 4231344 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Charlie R Crimston |
| GIVEN NAMES | Charlie R |
| FAMILY NAME | Crimston |
| SIGNATURE | CRIMSTON C R |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Queensland |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4529-786X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 73 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Men's Allyship for Workplace Gender Equality: The Roles of Argument Framing and Perceived Motivation in Shaping Opinions
This research examines how different argument frames—moral, economic, and interpersonal ties—shape evaluations of men's support for workplace gender equality. Across three studies in Australia ( N = 1006), both men and women rated argument persuasiveness and assessed the motivations of men's allyship supporting workplace gender equality. Study 1 used conceptual content analysis to identify common argument frames; Studies 2 and 3 experimentally te…
Moral expansiveness and pro-environmentalism: The mediating role of moral emotions
Moral circles represent the figurative boundaries that distinguish the human and non-human entities that are considered to have moral worth from the entities that are considered to lack moral worth. The extent to which individuals have wide-reaching boundaries is referred to as moral expansiveness. Investigations into the psychological processes that underlie moral circle decision-making and moral expansiveness are only just beginning. Through tw…
Cross-sectional associations between medical affirmation, social connectedness, and psychological well-being in transgender and gender-diverse adults
Many transgender and gender-diverse adults (i.e., those whose gender identities or expressions differ from their sex presumed at birth) affirm their identities medically and, in addition, rely on their social networks for identity-related support. While both medical affirmation and social connectedness are linked to well-being, their combined effects and differences across gender identities remain underexplored. The present article aimed to exami…
Cisgender Women Underestimate Support for the Inclusion of Transgender Women in the Group ‘Women’: An Investigation of Norm Misperceptions
Individuals sometimes misjudge the views of others in their group, believing that their own attitudes differ from those held by the majority. Across five studies (N = 1159) conducted in Australia and the United Kingdom, we assessed the similarity between cisgender women’s own beliefs and their perceptions of the group norm (i.e., other cisgender women) regarding the inclusion of transgender women within the boundaries of womanhood. We found robus…
Barriers reported by nonbinary adults when accessing gender-affirming medical treatments: A systematic scoping literature review
Like transgender women and men, nonbinary adults (i.e., those who identify outside of the traditional female/male gender binary) may undergo hormone and surgical treatments to physically affirm their gender identities. Yet relatively little is known about whether nonbinary adults report similar or additional barriers to treatment compared to transgender men and women. Thus, the present systematic scoping literature review aimed to examine and syn…
Fight like hell”: Projected moral polarisation predicts anticipated conflict and the perceived responsibility to overturn an election loss
Losing an election can be a huge blow. As a result, most elections are associated with a mixture of trepidation and optimism (outgroup vs. ingroup political party winning, respectively). However, we propose that levels of anxiety and future dread in the context of an election are enhanced when society is characterised by deep intergroup divisions and morally charged polarisation. Across two studies spanning two national elections (the 2020 U.S. p…
Meat and morality: The moral foundation of purity, but not harm, predicts attitudes toward cultured meat
Cultured meat (also referred to as cultivated, cell-based, or cell-cultured meat) is a novel food technology that is presented as a method of meat production without reliance on large-scale industrial farming. The pro-cultured meat narrative rests, in part, on a moral foundation: cultured meat is purported to alleviate the environmental and animal welfare harms associated with farmed meat. Despite this narrative, no research has examined which mo…
We’re not as great as we used to be: Perceived national status threat and the desire for strong leaders
We examined whether perceived national status threat—i.e., perceiving that one’s country’s status on the international scene is in decline—predicts increased desire for a strong conservative or progressive leader through greater national nostalgia and collective angst. A pilot study on strong leaders’ speeches from the 2017 French presidential election campaign first revealed that both conservative and progressive strong leaders use the status th…
Moral Expansiveness Around the World: The Role of Societal Factors Across 36 Countries
What are the things that we think matter morally, and how do societal factors influence this? To date, research has explored several individual-level and historical factors that influence the size of our ‘moral circles.' There has, however, been less attention focused on which societal factors play a role. We present the first multi-national exploration of moral expansiveness—that is, the size of people’s moral circles across countries. We found …
I may not like you, but I still care: Children differentiate moral concern from other constructs
In industrialized societies, adults exhibit stable preferences for the types of people, animals, and entities they feel moral concern for (Crimston et al., 2016). Only one published study to date has utilized the moral circles paradigm to examine these preferences in children, finding that as children age, their preferences shift to become more similar to adults' (Neldner et al., 2018). However, it is currently unclear whether children's conceptu…
Australia Day or Invasion Day? Perspectives on the Continuing Impact of Colonialism Underlies Public Contestations Around Australia's National Day
The ways in which collective memories are constructed in the present is important in explaining how people choose to commemorate their nation's history. The present research focused on the context of Australia Day, a controversial national holiday that falls on January 26, which is a date that marks the beginning of colonization. We conducted field surveys of community members participating in an Invasion Day protest pushing for Indigenous rights…
Double jeopardy: How lower levels of support during Covid-19 exacerbated the relationship between loneliness and distress
While the relationship between loneliness and psychological distress is well documented, the mechanisms underlying this relationship are less clear. One factor known to be related to loneliness as well as psychological distress, is social support, with some studies suggesting that support–both received and provided–can serve as a mechanism to reduce the distress associated with loneliness. In this paper we examine the mediating role of both aspec…
How being rooted in the past can shape the future: The role of social identity continuity in the wish for a strong leader
Cracks before the crisis: Polarization prior to Covid‐19 predicts increased collective angst and economic pessimism
We examine how polarization within societies is associated with reduced confidence in national responses to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) crisis. We surveyed 4,731 participants across nine countries at Wave 1 (France, Germany, Indonesia, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Thailand, the United Kingdom and the United States), and then, at Wave 2 (3 months later), we recontacted 840 participants from two countries (the United Kingdom and the Unite…
Moral Polarization Predicts Support for Authoritarian and Progressive Strong Leaders via the Perceived Breakdown of Society
Polarization in society may hold consequences beyond the undermining of social cohesion. Here we provide the first evidence highlighting the power of perceived moral polarization in society to drive support for strong leaders. Across two studies and four samples drawn from the United Kingdom, Australia, and the United States (N = 1,664), we found evidence linking perceived moral polarization with perceived anomie in society (defined as the percei…
Trust predicts Covid-19 prescribed and discretionary behavioral intentions in 23 countries
The worldwide spread of a new coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) since December 2019 has posed a severe threat to individuals’ well-being. While the world at large is waiting that the released vaccines immunize most citizens, public health experts suggest that, in the meantime, it is only through behavior change that the spread of COVID-19 can be controlled. Importantly, the required behaviors are aimed not only at safeguarding one’s own health. Instead, i…
Covid‐19 and social psychological research: A silver lining
COVID-19 has changed the world in profound ways. It has changed not just how we live, work, and travel, but also how we conduct research, and this has been particularly evident in the field of social psychology. This is because COVID-19 has not only influenced our ability to do research, but the management (or mismanagement) of COVID-19 has spoken to the importance of many classic topics in social psychology: compliance; leadership; equality; att…
A world together: Global citizen identification as a basis for prosociality in the face of Covid-19
How do global citizens respond to a global health emergency? The present research examined the association between global citizen identification and prosociality using two cross-national datasets-the World Values Survey (Study 1, N = 93,338 from 60 countries and regions) and data collected in 11 countries at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic (Study 2, N = 5,427). Results showed that individuals who identified more strongly as global citizens rep…
To what extent are conspiracy theorists concerned for self versus others? A Covid‐19 test case
We examined whether people who are prone to believe COVID‐19 conspiracy theories are characterised by an especially strong concern for others or an especially strong concern for the self, and whether these orientations are associated with willingness to take a COVID‐19 vaccine. We surveyed 4,245 participants from eight nations; three months later we re‐contacted 1,262 participants from three nations. Belief in COVID‐19 conspiracy theories was rel…
Public views of the Sustainable Development Goals across countries
A microscopic dot on a microscopic dot: Self-esteem buffers the negative effects of exposure to the enormity of the universe
Moral expansiveness: Examining variability in the extension of the moral world
The nature of our moral judgments-and the extent to which we treat others with care-depend in part on the distinctions we make between entities deemed worthy or unworthy of moral consideration-our moral boundaries. Philosophers, historians, and social scientists have noted that people's moral boundaries have expanded over the last few centuries, but the notion of moral expansiveness has received limited empirical attention in psychology. This res…
Moral Polarization Predicts Support for Authoritarian and Progressive Strong Leaders via the Perceived Breakdown of Society
Polarization in society may hold consequences beyond the undermining of social cohesion. Here we provide the first evidence highlighting the power of perceived moral polarization in society to drive support for strong leaders. Across two studies and four samples drawn from the United Kingdom, Australia, and the United States (N = 1,664), we found evidence linking perceived moral polarization with perceived anomie in society (defined as the percei…
Moral expansiveness: Examining variability in the extension of the moral world
The nature of our moral judgments-and the extent to which we treat others with care-depend in part on the distinctions we make between entities deemed worthy or unworthy of moral consideration-our moral boundaries. Philosophers, historians, and social scientists have noted that people's moral boundaries have expanded over the last few centuries, but the notion of moral expansiveness has received limited empirical attention in psychology. This res…
To what extent are conspiracy theorists concerned for self versus others? A Covid‐19 test case
We examined whether people who are prone to believe COVID‐19 conspiracy theories are characterised by an especially strong concern for others or an especially strong concern for the self, and whether these orientations are associated with willingness to take a COVID‐19 vaccine. We surveyed 4,245 participants from eight nations; three months later we re‐contacted 1,262 participants from three nations. Belief in COVID‐19 conspiracy theories was rel…
We’re not as great as we used to be: Perceived national status threat and the desire for strong leaders
We examined whether perceived national status threat—i.e., perceiving that one’s country’s status on the international scene is in decline—predicts increased desire for a strong conservative or progressive leader through greater national nostalgia and collective angst. A pilot study on strong leaders’ speeches from the 2017 French presidential election campaign first revealed that both conservative and progressive strong leaders use the status th…
Meat and morality: The moral foundation of purity, but not harm, predicts attitudes toward cultured meat
Cultured meat (also referred to as cultivated, cell-based, or cell-cultured meat) is a novel food technology that is presented as a method of meat production without reliance on large-scale industrial farming. The pro-cultured meat narrative rests, in part, on a moral foundation: cultured meat is purported to alleviate the environmental and animal welfare harms associated with farmed meat. Despite this narrative, no research has examined which mo…
Australia Day or Invasion Day? Perspectives on the Continuing Impact of Colonialism Underlies Public Contestations Around Australia's National Day
The ways in which collective memories are constructed in the present is important in explaining how people choose to commemorate their nation's history. The present research focused on the context of Australia Day, a controversial national holiday that falls on January 26, which is a date that marks the beginning of colonization. We conducted field surveys of community members participating in an Invasion Day protest pushing for Indigenous rights…
A world together: Global citizen identification as a basis for prosociality in the face of Covid-19
How do global citizens respond to a global health emergency? The present research examined the association between global citizen identification and prosociality using two cross-national datasets-the World Values Survey (Study 1, N = 93,338 from 60 countries and regions) and data collected in 11 countries at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic (Study 2, N = 5,427). Results showed that individuals who identified more strongly as global citizens rep…
A microscopic dot on a microscopic dot: Self-esteem buffers the negative effects of exposure to the enormity of the universe
I may not like you, but I still care: Children differentiate moral concern from other constructs
In industrialized societies, adults exhibit stable preferences for the types of people, animals, and entities they feel moral concern for (Crimston et al., 2016). Only one published study to date has utilized the moral circles paradigm to examine these preferences in children, finding that as children age, their preferences shift to become more similar to adults' (Neldner et al., 2018). However, it is currently unclear whether children's conceptu…
Public views of the Sustainable Development Goals across countries
Moral expansiveness: Examining variability in the extension of the moral world
The nature of our moral judgments-and the extent to which we treat others with care-depend in part on the distinctions we make between entities deemed worthy or unworthy of moral consideration-our moral boundaries. Philosophers, historians, and social scientists have noted that people's moral boundaries have expanded over the last few centuries, but the notion of moral expansiveness has received limited empirical attention in psychology. This res…
A microscopic dot on a microscopic dot: Self-esteem buffers the negative effects of exposure to the enormity of the universe
Public views of the Sustainable Development Goals across countries
Trust predicts Covid-19 prescribed and discretionary behavioral intentions in 23 countries
The worldwide spread of a new coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) since December 2019 has posed a severe threat to individuals’ well-being. While the world at large is waiting that the released vaccines immunize most citizens, public health experts suggest that, in the meantime, it is only through behavior change that the spread of COVID-19 can be controlled. Importantly, the required behaviors are aimed not only at safeguarding one’s own health. Instead, i…
Covid‐19 and social psychological research: A silver lining
COVID-19 has changed the world in profound ways. It has changed not just how we live, work, and travel, but also how we conduct research, and this has been particularly evident in the field of social psychology. This is because COVID-19 has not only influenced our ability to do research, but the management (or mismanagement) of COVID-19 has spoken to the importance of many classic topics in social psychology: compliance; leadership; equality; att…
A world together: Global citizen identification as a basis for prosociality in the face of Covid-19
How do global citizens respond to a global health emergency? The present research examined the association between global citizen identification and prosociality using two cross-national datasets-the World Values Survey (Study 1, N = 93,338 from 60 countries and regions) and data collected in 11 countries at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic (Study 2, N = 5,427). Results showed that individuals who identified more strongly as global citizens rep…
To what extent are conspiracy theorists concerned for self versus others? A Covid‐19 test case
We examined whether people who are prone to believe COVID‐19 conspiracy theories are characterised by an especially strong concern for others or an especially strong concern for the self, and whether these orientations are associated with willingness to take a COVID‐19 vaccine. We surveyed 4,245 participants from eight nations; three months later we re‐contacted 1,262 participants from three nations. Belief in COVID‐19 conspiracy theories was rel…
Double jeopardy: How lower levels of support during Covid-19 exacerbated the relationship between loneliness and distress
While the relationship between loneliness and psychological distress is well documented, the mechanisms underlying this relationship are less clear. One factor known to be related to loneliness as well as psychological distress, is social support, with some studies suggesting that support–both received and provided–can serve as a mechanism to reduce the distress associated with loneliness. In this paper we examine the mediating role of both aspec…
How being rooted in the past can shape the future: The role of social identity continuity in the wish for a strong leader
Cracks before the crisis: Polarization prior to Covid‐19 predicts increased collective angst and economic pessimism
We examine how polarization within societies is associated with reduced confidence in national responses to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) crisis. We surveyed 4,731 participants across nine countries at Wave 1 (France, Germany, Indonesia, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Thailand, the United Kingdom and the United States), and then, at Wave 2 (3 months later), we recontacted 840 participants from two countries (the United Kingdom and the Unite…
Moral Polarization Predicts Support for Authoritarian and Progressive Strong Leaders via the Perceived Breakdown of Society
Polarization in society may hold consequences beyond the undermining of social cohesion. Here we provide the first evidence highlighting the power of perceived moral polarization in society to drive support for strong leaders. Across two studies and four samples drawn from the United Kingdom, Australia, and the United States (N = 1,664), we found evidence linking perceived moral polarization with perceived anomie in society (defined as the percei…
Moral Expansiveness Around the World: The Role of Societal Factors Across 36 Countries
What are the things that we think matter morally, and how do societal factors influence this? To date, research has explored several individual-level and historical factors that influence the size of our ‘moral circles.' There has, however, been less attention focused on which societal factors play a role. We present the first multi-national exploration of moral expansiveness—that is, the size of people’s moral circles across countries. We found …
I may not like you, but I still care: Children differentiate moral concern from other constructs
In industrialized societies, adults exhibit stable preferences for the types of people, animals, and entities they feel moral concern for (Crimston et al., 2016). Only one published study to date has utilized the moral circles paradigm to examine these preferences in children, finding that as children age, their preferences shift to become more similar to adults' (Neldner et al., 2018). However, it is currently unclear whether children's conceptu…
Australia Day or Invasion Day? Perspectives on the Continuing Impact of Colonialism Underlies Public Contestations Around Australia's National Day
The ways in which collective memories are constructed in the present is important in explaining how people choose to commemorate their nation's history. The present research focused on the context of Australia Day, a controversial national holiday that falls on January 26, which is a date that marks the beginning of colonization. We conducted field surveys of community members participating in an Invasion Day protest pushing for Indigenous rights…
Barriers reported by nonbinary adults when accessing gender-affirming medical treatments: A systematic scoping literature review
Like transgender women and men, nonbinary adults (i.e., those who identify outside of the traditional female/male gender binary) may undergo hormone and surgical treatments to physically affirm their gender identities. Yet relatively little is known about whether nonbinary adults report similar or additional barriers to treatment compared to transgender men and women. Thus, the present systematic scoping literature review aimed to examine and syn…
Fight like hell”: Projected moral polarisation predicts anticipated conflict and the perceived responsibility to overturn an election loss
Losing an election can be a huge blow. As a result, most elections are associated with a mixture of trepidation and optimism (outgroup vs. ingroup political party winning, respectively). However, we propose that levels of anxiety and future dread in the context of an election are enhanced when society is characterised by deep intergroup divisions and morally charged polarisation. Across two studies spanning two national elections (the 2020 U.S. p…
Meat and morality: The moral foundation of purity, but not harm, predicts attitudes toward cultured meat
Cultured meat (also referred to as cultivated, cell-based, or cell-cultured meat) is a novel food technology that is presented as a method of meat production without reliance on large-scale industrial farming. The pro-cultured meat narrative rests, in part, on a moral foundation: cultured meat is purported to alleviate the environmental and animal welfare harms associated with farmed meat. Despite this narrative, no research has examined which mo…
We’re not as great as we used to be: Perceived national status threat and the desire for strong leaders
We examined whether perceived national status threat—i.e., perceiving that one’s country’s status on the international scene is in decline—predicts increased desire for a strong conservative or progressive leader through greater national nostalgia and collective angst. A pilot study on strong leaders’ speeches from the 2017 French presidential election campaign first revealed that both conservative and progressive strong leaders use the status th…
Moral expansiveness and pro-environmentalism: The mediating role of moral emotions
Moral circles represent the figurative boundaries that distinguish the human and non-human entities that are considered to have moral worth from the entities that are considered to lack moral worth. The extent to which individuals have wide-reaching boundaries is referred to as moral expansiveness. Investigations into the psychological processes that underlie moral circle decision-making and moral expansiveness are only just beginning. Through tw…
Cross-sectional associations between medical affirmation, social connectedness, and psychological well-being in transgender and gender-diverse adults
Many transgender and gender-diverse adults (i.e., those whose gender identities or expressions differ from their sex presumed at birth) affirm their identities medically and, in addition, rely on their social networks for identity-related support. While both medical affirmation and social connectedness are linked to well-being, their combined effects and differences across gender identities remain underexplored. The present article aimed to exami…
Cisgender Women Underestimate Support for the Inclusion of Transgender Women in the Group ‘Women’: An Investigation of Norm Misperceptions
Individuals sometimes misjudge the views of others in their group, believing that their own attitudes differ from those held by the majority. Across five studies (N = 1159) conducted in Australia and the United Kingdom, we assessed the similarity between cisgender women’s own beliefs and their perceptions of the group norm (i.e., other cisgender women) regarding the inclusion of transgender women within the boundaries of womanhood. We found robus…
Men's Allyship for Workplace Gender Equality: The Roles of Argument Framing and Perceived Motivation in Shaping Opinions
This research examines how different argument frames—moral, economic, and interpersonal ties—shape evaluations of men's support for workplace gender equality. Across three studies in Australia ( N = 1006), both men and women rated argument persuasiveness and assessed the motivations of men's allyship supporting workplace gender equality. Study 1 used conceptual content analysis to identify common argument frames; Studies 2 and 3 experimentally te…
Psychology (16 works) · Social Psychology (16 works) · Political science (12 works) · Social and Intergroup Psychology (11 works) · Law (8 works) · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (8 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Politics (7 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Sociology (5 works)