Publications

Refereed Journal Articles

Efimoff, I. H. & Starzyk, K. B. (2026). 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

Efimoff, I. H. (In Press). North American Indigenous research approaches and applied social psychology. In K. C. O’Doherty (Ed.), Handbook of Research Methods and Practice in Applied Social Psychology (pp. TBD). Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.

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

White, E. E.-L., Efimoff, I. H., & Welch, M.-A. (December 15, 2025). Orange shirts aren’t enough when systemic equality is backsliding. [Series: Ten years later, reconciliation has stalled]. Policy Options. 

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.