Research
My research spans the areas of identity, group dynamics, minority psychology, and interpersonal relationships.
My publications are presented below by research area.
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Social Identity & Group Dynamics
Public perceptions of prejudice research:
The double-edged sword faced by marginalized group researchers (2021)
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
Michael
Thai
Morgana
Lizzio-Wilson
Hema Preya
Selvanathan
Discrepancies in East Asians’ perceived actual and ideal phenotypic facial features (2020)
Asian American Journal of Psychology
Michael
Thai
Anthony J.
Lee
Jordan R.
Axt
Matthew J.
Hornsey
Fiona Kate
Barlow
Forever foreign? Asian Australians assimilating to Australian culture
are still perceived as less Australian than White Australians (2020)
Social Psychological and Personality Science
Michael
Thai
Nicholas A.
Szeszeran
Matthew J.
Hornsey
Fiona Kate
Barlow
It's only funny if we say it:
Disparagement humor is better received if it originates from a member of the group being disparaged (2020)
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
Michael
Thai
Alex M.
Borgella
Melanie
Sanchez
We're all in this together:
The impact of Facebook groups on social connectedness and other outcomes in higher education (2019)
The Internet and Higher Education
Michael
Thai
Nicola
Sheeran
Daniel J.
Cummings
Is the racial composition of your surroundings associated with your levels of social dominance orientation? (2017)
PLoS One
Helena R. M.
Radke
Matthew J.
Hornsey
Chris G.
Sibley
Michael
Thai
Fiona Kate
Barlow
Friends with moral credentials: Minority friendships reduce attributions of racism for
majority group members who make conceivably racist statements (2016)
Social Psychological and Personality Science
Michael
Thai
Matthew J.
Hornsey
Fiona Kate
Barlow
The whitewashing effect: Using racial contact to signal trustworthiness and competence (2016)
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
Stephen T.
La Macchia
Winnifred R.
Louis
Matthew J.
Hornsey
Michael
Thai
Fiona Kate
Barlow
(Deviant) friends with benefits:
The impact of group boundary permeability on minority group members’ responses to ethnic deviance (2014)
Social Psychological and Personality Science
Michael
Thai
Fiona Kate
Barlow
Matthew J.
Hornsey
Forgiveness & Relationship Repair
Michael
Thai
Michael
Wenzel
Tyler G.
Okimoto
Michael
Thai
Michael
Wenzel
Tyler G.
Okimoto
Michael
Wenzel
Cara
Rossi
Michael
Thai
Lydia
Woodyatt
Tyler G.
Okimoto
Everett L.
Worthington Jr
Interpersonal transgressions and psychological loss:
Understanding moral repair as dyadic, reciprocal, and interactionist (2022)
Current Opinion in Psychology
Lydia
Woodyatt
Michael
Wenzel
Tyler G.
Okimoto
Michael
Thai
Embodied remorse: Physical displays of remorse increase positive responses to public apologies,
but have negligible effects on forgiveness (2020)
European Journal of Social Psychology
Matthew J.
Hornsey
Michael J. A.
Wohl
Emily A.
Harris
Tyler G.
Okimoto
Michael
Thai
Michael
Wenzel
Perpetrator groups can enhance their moral self-image by accepting their own intergroup apologies (2015)
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
Fiona Kate
Barlow
Michael
Thai
Michael J.
Wohl
Sarah
White
Marie-Ann
Wright
Matthew J.
Hornsey
Race & Attraction
Racial preferences in the intimate sphere elicit negative reactions in
heterosexual racial minority and majority group members (2023)
Journal of Sex Research
Luke
Huxley
Michael
Thai
An investigation of the relationship between cross-race friendships and attraction (2022)
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
Michael
Thai
Alexander W.
O'Donnell
Rhiannon N.
Turner
Fiona Kate
Barlow
Sexual racism is associated with lower self-esteem and life satisfaction in men who have sex with men (2020)
Archives of Sexual Behavior
Michael
Thai
The “preference” paradox:
Disclosing racial preferences in attraction is considered racist even by people who overtly claim it is not (2019)
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
Michael
Thai
Matthew J.
Stainer
Fiona Kate
Barlow
Intergroup Contact
Intimate intergroup contact across the lifespan (2021)
Journal of Social Issues
Marco
Marinucci
Rachel
Maunder
Kiara
Sanchez
Michael
Thai
Shelley
McKeown
Rhiannon N.
Turner
Clifford
Stevenson
An investigation of positive and negative contact as predictors of intergroup attitudes
in the United States, Hong Kong, and Thailand (2015)
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
Pirathat
Techakesari
Fiona Kate
Barlow
Matthew J.
Hornsey
Billy
Sung
Michael
Thai
Jocelyn L. Y.
Chak
The wallpaper effect: The contact hypothesis fails for minority group members
who live in areas with a high proportion of majority group members (2013)
PLoS One
Fiona Kate
Barlow
Matthew J.
Hornsey
Michael
Thai
Nikhil K.
Sengupta
Chris G.
Sibley
Sex & Sexuality
Rejecting equality: Psychological differences between Australian sexual minority men voting “yes”,
voting “no”, or abstaining from voting on the legalization of same-sex marriage (2020)
Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity
Michael
Thai
Leander Y. E.
Dellers
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 (2019)
Archives of Sexual Behavior
Michael
Thai
Fiona Kate
Barlow
Fifty shades flipped:
Effects of reading erotica depicting a sexually dominant woman compared to a sexually dominant man (2017)
The Journal of Sex Research
Emily A.
Harris
Michael
Thai
Fiona Kate
Barlow
Occupational Stigma
“The stigma is what you do”: Examining the relationship between occupational stigma
and worker outcomes in the aged care context (2023)
Journal of Applied Gerontology
Asmita V.
Manchha
Kirsten A.
Way
Michael
Thai
Ken
Tann
Reconceptualizing stigmas in aged care:
A typology of stigmatizing discourses in the aged-care context (2022)
The Gerontologist
Asmita V.
Manchha
Ken
Tann
Kirsten A.
Way
Michael
Thai
The social construction of stigma in aged-care work:
Implications for health professionals’ work intentions (2022)
The Gerontologist
Asmita V.
Manchha
Kirsten A.
Way
Ken
Tann
Michael
Thai
Deeply discrediting: A systematic review examining the conceptualizations
and consequences of the stigma of working in aged care (2021)
The Gerontologist
Asmita V.
Manchha
Nicole
Walker
Kirsten A.
Way
Danielle
Dawson
Ken
Tann
Michael
Thai