School of Psychology

Dr Michael Thai

Lecturer Developmental Psychology
School of Psychology
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Journal Articles (25)
Thesis (1)

Journal Articles

Manchha, Asmita V., Way, Kïrsten A., Tann, Ken and Thai, Michael (2022). The social construction of stigma in aged-care work: implications for health professionals’ work intentions. The Gerontologist, 62 (7), 994-1005. doi: 10.1093/geront/gnac002
Woodyatt, Lydia, Wenzel, Michael, Okimoto, Tyler and Thai, Michael (2022). Interpersonal transgressions and psychological loss: understanding moral repair as dyadic, reciprocal, and interactionist. Current Opinion in Psychology, 44, 7-11. doi: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2021.08.018
Thai, Michael, Wenzel, Michael and Okimoto, Tyler G. (2021). Turning tables: offenders feel like “Victims” when victims withhold forgiveness. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 014616722110624. doi: 10.1177/01461672211062401
Thai, Michael, Lizzio-Wilson, Morgana and Selvanathan, Hema Preya (2021). Public perceptions of prejudice research: the double-edged sword faced by marginalized group researchers. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 96 104181, 104181. doi: 10.1016/j.jesp.2021.104181
Marinucci, Marco, Maunder, Rachel, Sanchez, Kiara, Thai, Michael, McKeown Jones, Shelley, Turner, Rhiannon N. and Stevenson, Clifford (2021). Intimate intergroup contact across the lifespan. Journal of Social Issues, 77 (1), 64-85. doi: 10.1111/josi.12399
Thai, Michael, O’Donnell, Alexander W., Turner, Rhiannon N. and Barlow, Fiona Kate (2021). An investigation of the relationship between cross-race friendships and attraction. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 48 (6), 1461672211026130-922. doi: 10.1177/01461672211026130
Manchha, Asmita V., Walker, Nicole, Way, Kïrsten A., Dawson, Danielle, Tann, Ken and Thai, Michael (2020). Deeply discrediting: a systematic review examining the conceptualizations and consequences of the stigma of working in aged care. The Gerontologist, 61 (4), e129-e146. doi: 10.1093/geront/gnaa166
Thai, Michael and Dellers, Leander Y. E. (2020). Rejecting equality: psychological differences between Australian sexual minority men voting "Yes," voting "No," or abstaining from voting on the legalization of same-sex marriage. Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity, 7 (2), 186-196. doi: 10.1037/sgd0000368
Thai, Michael, Lee, Anthony J., Axt, Jordan R., Hornsey, Matthew J. and Barlow, Fiona Kate (2020). Discrepancies in East Asians’ perceived actual and ideal phenotypic facial features. Asian American Journal of Psychology, 11 (3), 117-125. doi: 10.1037/aap0000181
Thai, Michael, Szeszeran, Nicholas A., Hornsey, Matthew J. and Barlow, Fiona Kate (2020). Forever foreign? Asian Australians assimilating to Australian culture are still perceived as less Australian than White Australians. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 11 (6), 194855061987990-820. doi: 10.1177/1948550619879907
Thai, Michael (2020). Sexual racism is associated with lower self-esteem and life satisfaction in men who have sex with men. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 49 (1), 347-353. doi: 10.1007/s10508-019-1456-z
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 103838, 103838. doi: 10.1016/j.jesp.2019.103838
Hornsey, Matthew J., Wohl, Michael J. A., Harris, Emily A., Okimoto, Tyler G., Thai, Michael and Wenzel, Michael (2019). Embodied remorse: physical displays of remorse increase positive responses to public apologies, but have negligible effects on forgiveness. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 119 (2), 367-389. doi: 10.1037/pspi0000208
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
Topp, Kieren, Thai, Michael and Hryciw, Deanne H. (2019). The role of entertainment in engagement with climate change. Environmental Education Research, 25 (5), 691-700. doi: 10.1080/13504622.2019.1572072
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, 48 (4), 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) e0186612, 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) e82228, 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