Publications

Refereed Journal Articles

Efimoff, I. H. & Starzyk, K. B. (2025). A mixed methods investigation of Indigenous university students’ experiences with and strategies to challenge racism. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology. Online First Publication.

Starzyk, K. B.,* Neufeld, K. H. S.,* Efimoff, I. H., Fontaine, A. S. M., White, E. E.-L., Moran, R., Peachey, D., Fontaine, L. S., & Welch, M. A. (2024). The Canadian Reconciliation Barometer: A rigorous tool for tracking reconciliation in Canada. Frontiers in Social Psychology, 2. https://doi.org/10.3389/frsps.2024.1369816 *These authors share first authorship.

Starzyk, K. B.,* Efimoff, I. H.,* Neufeld, K. H. S., Fontaine, A. S. M., Woolford, A., Young, J., Bunt, A., Trickey, J., Sinclair, S., & Muller, A. (2024). The influence of Survivor stories and a virtual reality representation of a residential school on reconciliation in Canada. Frontiers in Social Psychology, 2, Article 1346101. https://doi.org/10.3389/frsps.2024.1346101 *These authors share first authorship.

Efimoff, I. H. & Starzyk, K. B. (2024). An Example of Embedding Indigenous Research Approaches into Social Psychology: A Mixed Methods Program of Research to Reduce Anti-Indigenous Prejudice. SAGE Research Methods: Diversifying and Decolonizing Research Case Studies. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781529683400

Efimoff, I. H. & Starzyk, K. B. (2023). The impact of education about historical and current injustices, individual racism, and systemic racism on anti-Indigenous prejudice. European Journal of Social Psychology, 53, 1542-1562. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2987

Efimoff, I. H. (2022). A thematic analysis of Indigenous students’ experiences with Indigenization at a Canadian post-secondary institution: Paradoxes, potential, and moving forward together. The International Indigenous Policy Journal, 13(1). https://doi.org/10.18584/iipj.2022.13.1.10700

Neufeld, K. H. S., Starzyk. K. B., Boese, G., Efimoff, I. H., & Wright, S. (2021). “The more you know”: Critical historical knowledge about Indian Residential Schools increases non-Indigenous Canadians’ empathy for Indigenous Peoples. Political Psychology, 43, 617-633. http://doi.org/10.1111/pops.12783.

Efimoff, I. H.,* Patrick, L.,* Josewski, V., Gross, P. A., Lambert, S., & Smye, V. (2021). The power of connections: How a novel Canadian men’s wellness program is improving the health and well-being of Indigenous and non-Indigenous men. The International Indigenous Policy Journal, 12(2), 1-22. doi.org/10.18584/iipj.2021.12.2.10896. *These authors contributed equally.

Gross, P. A., Efimoff, I. H., Patrick, L., Joweski, V., Hau, K., Lambert, S., & Smye, V. (2016). The DUDES Club: A brotherhood for men’s health. Canadian Family Physician, 62(6), e311–e318.

Book Chapters

Smye, V., Josewski, V., Gross, P., Efimoff, I. H., Patrick, L., & Lambert, S. (2023). Trauma- and Violence-Informed Mental Health Interventions: Our Work with Indigenous Men. In C. N. Wathen & C. Varcoe (Eds), Implementing Trauma- and Violence-Informed Care: A Handbook for Diverse Contexts. University of Toronto Press.

Gross, P., Efimoff, I. H., Josewski, V., Cohn, F., Lambert, S., Everstz, T., & Oliffe, J. (2023). Where are our men? How the DUDES Club has supported Indigenous men in British Columbia, Canada to seek a path of healing and wellness. In J. Smith, D. Watkins & D. Griffith (Eds.), Health Promotion for Adolescent Boys & Men of Color: Global Strategies for Advancing Research, Policy, and Practice in Context. Springer.

Efimoff, I. H. (2019). Indigenous student experience in an Indigenizing institution: Preliminary results from a Canadian university. In L. Forsythe, & J. Markides (Eds.), Research journeys in/to multiple ways of knowing (pp. 235–244). DIO Press.

Refereed Knowledge Mobilization Pieces

Efimoff, I. H. (2022). Grounding psychology in Indigenous worldviews: The need to address epistemological racism. Psynopsis: Canada’s Psychology Magazine, 44(1), 16-17.

Starzyk, K. B., Moran, R., Fontaine, L., Peachey, D., Neufeld, K., Fontaine, A., & Efimoff, I. H. (2019). Lessons learned for psychological research with Indigenous Peoples from the Canadian reconciliation barometer project. Psynopsis: Canada’s Psychology Magazine, 41(3), 26–27.

Knowledge Mobilization Pieces

Efimoff, I. H., & Starzyk, K. B. (2024, January 24). Learning about systemic racism can reduce anti-Indigenous bias. Character & Context Blog (Society for Personality and Social Psychology Blog).

Efimoff, I. H., Moran, R., & Welch, M.-A. (2024). There is hope for reconciliation – but it will only get harder if we don’t get to know each other. The Globe & Mail.

Efimoff, I. H.,* Kumar, K.,* & Mehak, A.* (2021). Psychology’s Reckoning: Executive Summary of the Canadian Psychology Association’s Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Panel. Canadian Psychological Association. *These authors contributed equally.

Efimoff, I. H. (2021, April 13). Why words matter: The negative impacts of racial microaggressions on Indigenous and other racialized people. The Conversation.

Podcast Episodes With Dr. Efimoff

Fontaine, A. F., & Starzyk, K. B. (2022, September 5). Ep 10: Attitudes toward reconciliation in Canada: Connectedness to nature [Talking Papers with Haley Hrymak podcast].

Starzyk, K. B. (2022, March 5). Social and personality research in Canada [Canadian Psychological Association podcast with host E. Bollman & co-guests C. Harasymchuk & J. Zelenski].

Khandaker, T. (2021, September 30). Can we measure reconciliation? [Podcast with co-guests R. Moran and K. B. Starzyk]. The Decibel, The Globe and Mail.