Clayton Mcclure, Dr Helgi

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Clayton Mcclure, Dr Helgi

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h.claytonmcclure@yorksj.ac.uk

Department:

School of Education, Language & Psychology

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Future Thinking, Self-Regulation, Motivation and Goal Pursuit, Mental Health / Psychopathology, Procrastination, Cognitive Processes in Higher Education

Job title:

Lecturer in Psychology

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Clayton McClure, Jack Helgi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6858-3116, Sayan, Stephanie and Anderson, Rachel (2026) High trait procrastination predicts increased goal anxiety despite invariance in simulation of goal achievement. Psychological Reports.
Clayton McClure, J. Helgi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6858-3116, Cole, Scott ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8176-283X and Barzykowski, Krystian ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4016-3966 (2025) On the Dangers of Overthinking: A Natural Experiment on Self‐Regulatory Thought, Mind‐Wandering and Undergraduate Exam Performance. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 39 (6). e70138.
Clayton McClure, Jack Helgi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6858-3116, Elwell, Charlotte, Jones, Theo, Mirkovic, Jelena and Cole, Scott ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8176-283X (2024) On Second Thoughts: Testing the Underlying Mechanisms of Spontaneous Future Thought. Cognition, 250 (105863).
Anderson, Rachel J, Clayton McClure, Jack Helgi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6858-3116, Bishop, Emma, Howe, David, Riggs, Kevin J and Dewhurst, Stephen A (2024) The implicit power of positive thinking: The effect of positive episodic simulation on implicit future expectancies. PLOS ONE, 19 (4).
Clayton McClure, Jack Helgi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6858-3116, Riggs, Kevin J, Dewhurst, Stephen A and Anderson, Rachel J (2024) Differentiating anticipated and anticipatory emotions and their sensitivity to depressive symptoms. Emotion, 24 (7). pp. 1642-1651.
Shevchenko, Jennifer ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8717-0437, Arnold, Megan and Clayton McClure, Jack Helgi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6858-3116 (2023) No evidence of association between autism spectrum quotient (<fc>AQ</fc>) and spontaneous mental time travel in a general adult sample performing an online vigilance task. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 38 (1). e4147.
Anderson, Rachel J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9191-0004, Clayton McClure, Jack Helgi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6858-3116, Boland, Jennifer ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8717-0437, Howe, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8618-5776, Riggs, Kevin J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4294-9738 and Dewhurst, Stephen A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5834-0049 (2023) The relationship between depressive symptoms and positive emotional anticipation of goal achievement. Journal of Experimental Psychopathology, 14 (1).
Clayton McClure, Jack Helgi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6858-3116 and Cole, Scott ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8176-283X (2022) Controllability is key: Goal pursuit during COVID‐19 and insights for theories of self‐regulation. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 52 (12). pp. 1196-1210.
Clayton McClure, Jack Helgi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6858-3116 (2022) Spontaneous Future Cognition: Cognitive Mechanisms and Goal-Directed Functions. Doctoral thesis, York St John University.

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1	Differentiating anticipated and anticipatory emotions and their sensitivity to depressive symptoms	240	77
2	The implicit power of positive thinking: The effect of positive episodic simulation on implicit future expectancies	150	238
3	On the Dangers of Overthinking: A Natural Experiment on Self‐Regulatory Thought, Mind‐Wandering and Undergraduate Exam Performance	18	9
4	High trait procrastination predicts increased goal anxiety despite invariance in simulation of goal achievement	2