Ian Newby-Clark

Area: 
Applied Social Psychology
Email: 
inewby@uoguelph.ca
Phone: 
519-824-4120 x53517
Office/Building: 
Mackinnon Extension
Office Hours: 

By Appointment

Room: 
3008
Accepting Graduate Students: 
Yes
Accepting New Experiential Learning Students: 
Yes

My Research

In the Flow of Consciousness Lab (FoCL), my students and I are endeavouring to measure aspects of everyday thought, including the nature and frequency of off-task thought. Our lab follows open science practices (https://osf.io/) and I am a signatory of the Openness Initiative (https://opennessinitiative.org/). I approach my work as a Descriptive Psychologist (http://www.sdp.org/)

Education

BSc (1993), Psychology Specialist, University of Toronto

PhD (1999), Social Psychology, University of Waterloo

SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow (1999 to 2000), Cornell Univeristy

Selected Publications

Recent Publications

* = Student author

*Nabbijohn, A. N., Newby-Clark, I. R., Mack, D., Stintzi, A., & McMurtry, C. M. (2025). Pain trajectories in pediatric inflammatory bowel disease: Disease severity, optimism, and pain self-efficacy. Clinical Journal of Pain, 41, e1279. https://doi.org/10.1097/AJP.0000000000001279 

*Hou, S. H., Safdar, S., Newby-Clark, I. R., & Giguère, B. (2023). Navigating parent-child value differences: Capturing strategies used by immigrant parents from the perspective of East Asian young adult children of immigrants. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 97, 101902.

Senn, C. Y., Barata, P., Eliasziw, M., Hoben, K. L., Radtke, H. L., Thurston, W. E., & Newby-Clark, I. R. (2022). Sexual assault resistance education’s benefits for survivors of attempted and completed rape. Women & Therapy, 45, 41-67. DOI: 10.1080/02703149.2021.1971425

Vaswani, M., Esses, V. M., Newby-Clark, I. R., & Giguère, B. (2022). Cultural differences in fear of negative evaluation after social norm transgressions and the impact on mental health. Frontiers in psychology, 13, e804841-e804841.

*Genik, L. M., Aerts, E. L., Barata, P. C., Barney, C. C., Lewis, S. P., Newby-Clark, I., & McMurtry, C. M. (2021). A randomized controlled trial evaluating a pain assessment and management program for respite workers supporting children with disabilities part one: pain-related knowledge and perceptions. American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 126(4), 271-288.

*Redden, E. K., Bailey, H. N., Katan, A., *Kondo, D., Czosniak, R., Upfold, C., & Newby-Clark, I. R. (2021). Evidence for self-compassionate talk: What do people actually say? Current Psychology, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-020-01339-2

*Vaswani, M., Safdar, S., Newby-Clark, I. R., & Giguère, B. (2021). Canadian identity attenuates the negative impact of familial rejection on psychological distress. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 81, 142-153.

Radtke, H. L., Barata, P. C., Senn, C. Y., Thurston, W. E., Hobden, K. L., Newby-Clark, I. R., & Eliasziw, M. (2020). Countering rape culture with resistance education. Violence interrupted: Confronting sexual violence on university campuses, 349-370.

Senn, C. Y., Eliasziw, M., Hoben, K. L., Barata, P., Radtke, H. L., Thurston, W. E., & Newby-Clark, I. R. (2020). Testing a model of how a sexual assault resistance program for women reduces sexual assaults. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 45, 20-36. https://doi.org/10.1177/0361684320962561

McGregor, I., Newby-Clark, I. R., & Zanna, M. P. (2019). Dissonance now: How accessible discrepancies moderate distress and diverse defenses. In E. Harmon-Jones (Ed.), Cognitive dissonance: Reexamining a pivotal theory in psychology (pp. 117–138). American Psychological Association. https://doi.org/10.1037/0000135-006

Newby-Clark, I. R., & *Thavendran, K. (2018). To daydream is to imagine events: Conceptual, theoretical, and empirical considerations. Theory and Psychology, 28, 261-268. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959354317752270

*MacDonald, K., Newby-Clark, I. R., *Walker, J., & *Henselwood, K. (2018). It's written all over your face: Socially rejected people display microexpressions that are detectable after training in the Micro Expression Training Tool (METT). European Journal of Social Psychology, 48, O175-O181. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2301

Senn, C. Y. Eliasziw, M., Hobden, K. L., Newby-Clark, I. R., Barata, P. C., Radtke, L., & Thurston, W. E. (2017). Secondary and 2-year outcomes of a sexual assault resistance program for university women. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 41, 147-162.