Michael Thai

Really excited to share our new paper "How perceived polarization predicts moralization (and vice versa)", now online in JPSP! dx.doi.org/10.1037/pspi00… Introduces and tests a new model linking polarization with moralization over time. With Martijn van Zomeren and @Koudenburg

Yearly plug for my 'Brief Conversations About Intergroup Relations' video series, now up to 27 guests! Much much thanks to @MikeyPasek, @KimEChaney and @brycejdietrich for joining this year. More information here: osf.io/va3g5

🎉 Thrilled to share my first first-author article! We delved into sustained Collective Action (CA), which is repeated participation in a social movement, and found its unique predictors. See the thread for details. (1/9) doi.org/10.1177/014616… #AcademicTwitter

Just one week til our next online seminar: Motivated prejudice behind the 'perpetual foreigner syndrome' - with social psychologist @drmichaelthai. Exploring how Asian Australians continue to be categorised as 'foreign' 12.30 Thu 21/9 online buff.ly/3sQAeFC

New paper out today with @mocraig4 and twitterless Duane. Who is a more effective advocate when pushing for social justice - people from marginalized groups or majority groups? sciencedirect.com/science/articl… 🧵1/8

Happy to see my first PhD paper out! With @jetten_j, @HemaPreya, Roberto González and Héctor Carvacho we used a person-centred approach to examine types of participants in the Chilean Student Movement (1/n)

The preprint got a lot of attention - great to have the paper finally published: We show justice concerns translate to online shaming when there is also an emotional payoff for participants (schadenfreude) #onlineshaming #cyberpsychology sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Applications for the 2023 SASP Summer School in Melbourne (November 27-30) are open (submit by COB Monday 14 August). For more info and to apply, go to: sasp.org.au/events/summer-… /1

🚨New Pub Alert 🚨 In this paper, we argue that gendered racial stereotypes are an underlying motivational mechanism that shapes Black girls’ STEM identity and persistence. We also highlight the need to participate in more theoretical integrations across disciplines!

Happy Online First Day (yesterday) for my intersectional stereotype paper! It is finally available! doi.org/10.1177/036168…

In our new paper, we find that marginalised group members evaluate allies more positively if (a) their allyship persists in the face of personal costs, and (b) they have little to personally gain from their allyship. @jarren @UQPsych doi.org/10.1111/bjso.1…

My last paper as a PhD student was finally published in Perspectives on Psychological Science: "Lay Misperceptions of Culture as “Biological” and Suggestions for Reducing Them"! you can read freely here thanks to CRKN-Sage open access agreement: doi.org/10.1177/174569…

Last semester, I had students do the "UnEssay" assignment in my 3rd year social psychology course on group processes & intergroup relations. Students rose to the challenge and absolutely blew me away!!! 😭 Here are some examples of their creations (shared with permission)...

Excited to announce our latest research, published in SPPS! We found that people perceiving higher economic inequality are more likely to support structural climate policies over individual-level behaviour change. With @ @jetten_j 🌍 1/3

Just published in #JSexResearch Racial Preferences in the Intimate Sphere Elicit Negative Reactions in Heterosexual Racial Minority and Majority Group Members by @drmichaelthai @Sex_Science @kinseyinstitute @JustinLehmiller @TheIASR tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

@KlaraGreffin @UQPsych Thanks Klara! 😊

My first paper with the wonderful @Scott1Griffiths! We looked at how masculinity and femininity are associated with body satisfaction among sexual minority men. Brief summary below sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

A survey exploring LGBTQA+ Australians experiences with religion & faith is now open. We want to hear about people’s experiences with religion, religious schools, personal relationships with spirituality, or those with no relationship with faith. lgbtqareligiousexperiences.org.au/survey #LGBTQ

Our new paper with @jetten_j, Kim Peters and colleagues. Inequality shapes social class stereotypes in 32 countries. Levels of corruption, democracy and social mobility change how inequality shapes social class stereotyping onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

This project we (@melisulug @be_burrows) started in 2016 is now published! We used Q-methodology and interviews to investigate the views of activists on the role of White allies in racial justice efforts in the U.S. doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2…