Journal Articles
Thai, Michael, Borgella, Alex M. and Sanchez, Melanie S. (2019) It's only funny if we say it: Disparagement humor is better received if it originates from a member of the group being disparaged. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 85 . doi:10.1016/j.jesp.2019.103838
Thai, Michael, Stainer, Matthew J. and Barlow, Fiona Kate (2019) The “preference” paradox: disclosing racial preferences in attraction is considered racist even by people who overtly claim it is not. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 83 70-77. doi:10.1016/j.jesp.2019.03.004
Thai, Michael, Sheeran, Nicola and Cummings, Daniel J. (2019) We're all in this together: the impact of Facebook groups on social connectedness and other outcomes in higher education. Internet and Higher Education, 40 44-49. doi:10.1016/j.iheduc.2018.10.001
Thai, Michael and Barlow, Fiona Kate (2018) Bareback sexually explicit media consumption and men who have sex with men’s responses to sexual partners who prefer anal intercourse with or without condoms. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 1-11. doi:10.1007/s10508-018-1182-y
Radke, Helena R. M., Hornsey, Matthew J., Sibley, Chris G., Thai, Michael and Barlow, Fiona Kate (2017) Is the racial composition of your surroundings associated with your levels of social dominance orientation?. PloS One, 12 10: 1-16. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0186612
Thai, Michael, Hornsey, Matthew J. and Barlow, Fiona Kate (2016) Friends with moral credentials: minority friendships reduce attributions of racism for majority group members who make conceivably racist statements. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 7 3: 272-280. doi:10.1177/1948550615624140
Harris, Emily Ann, Thai, Michael and Barlow, Fiona Kate (2016) Fifty shades flipped: effects of reading erotica depicting a sexually dominant woman compared to a sexually dominant man. Journal of Sex Research, 54 3: 1-12. doi:10.1080/00224499.2015.1131227
La Macchia, Stephen T., Louis, Winnifred R., Hornsey, Matthew J., Thai, Michael and Barlow, Fiona Kate (2016) The Whitewashing Effect: Using racial contact to signal trustworthiness and competence. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 42 1: 118-129. doi:10.1177/0146167215616801
Barlow, Fiona Kate, Thai, Michael, Wohl, Michael J. A., White, Sarah, Wright, Marie-Ann and Hornsey, Matthew J. (2015) Perpetrator groups can enhance their moral self-image by accepting their own intergroup apologies. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 60 39-50. doi:10.1016/j.jesp.2015.05.001
Techakesari, Pirathat, Barlow, Fiona Kate, Hornsey, Matthew J, Sung, Billy, Thai, Michael and Chak, Jocelyn L. Y (2015) An Investigation of Positive and Negative Contact As Predictors of Intergroup Attitudes in the United States, Hong Kong, and Thailand. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 46 3: 454-468. doi:10.1177/0022022115570313
Thai, Michael, Barlow, Fiona Kate and Hornsey, Matthew J. (2014) (Deviant) friends with benefits the impact of group boundary permeability on minority group members’ responses to ethnic deviance. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 5 3: 360-368. doi:10.1177/1948550613499939
Barlow, Fiona Kate, Hornsey, Matthew J., Thai, Michael, Sengupta, Nikhil K. and Sibley, Chris G. (2013) The wallpaper effect: the contact hypothesis fails for minority group members who live in areas with a high proportion of majority group members. PloS One, 8 12: 2152-2178. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0082228
Thesis
Thai, Michael (2016). From opposition to alliance: Asian Westerners’ drive to fit in to a White society PhD Thesis, School of Psychology, The University of Queensland. doi:10.14264/uql.2016.395