Clayton Mcclure, Helgi

• Lecturer in Psychology
• School of Education, Language & Psychology

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Anderson, Rachel J., Clayton Mcclure, Helgi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6858-3116, Shevchenko, Jennifer, Riggs, Kevin J. and Dewhurst, Stephen A. (2026) The effects of episodic simulation on the cognitive and emotional expectancies related to personal goals. Psychological Research, 90 (5).

Anderson, Rachel J. and Clayton Mcclure, Helgi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6858-3116 (2026) Future-oriented emotions and physical activity: Anticipated and anticipatory emotions as predictors of behavioural intentions and expectations. Performance Enhancement & Health, 14 (3).

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).

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.

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).

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.

Thesis

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.