Pirathat Techakesari

The University of Sydney · Clinical Psychology Unit (CPU)

A fear that one's physical illness will recur or worsen has received substantial research attention over the past decade, most notably as fear of cancer recurrence. Indeed, such fear is known to be associated with poorer quality of life, adjustment, and psychopathology. However, fear of a recurrence or progression (FORP) of mental health conditions...

Use of precision medicine in oncology is burgeoning and can provide patients with new treatment options. However, it is not clear how precision medicine is impacting healthcare professionals (HCPs), particularly with regards to their concerns about this new approach. We therefore synthesized the existing literature on HCPs' attitudes toward cancer...

Introduction: Understanding the cause of their cancer is important for many cancer patients. Childhood cancer survivors’/survivors’ parents’ beliefs about cancer etiology are understudied. We aimed to assess survivors’/parents’ beliefs about what causes childhood cancer, compared with beliefs in the community. We also investigated the influence of...

We expected a positive boosting effect of a performance-based extrinsic reward on motivation and performance for those with higher control-related resources (i.e., perceived task control and trait self-control), and a positive compensating effect for those who lacked these resources. Study 1 supported compensation. Those with lower resources experi...

A growing body of literature suggests that positive cross-group contact between members of advantaged and disadvantaged groups can undermine disadvantaged group members’ collective action engagement. It has also been proposed that supportive contact (i.e., positive contact with advantaged group members who express explicit support for social change...

Advantaged group members have an important role to play in creating social change, and intergroup contact has tremendous implications in shaping intergroup relations. However, little research has examined how intergroup contact predicts advantaged group members’ inclinations toward collective action to support the interests of disadvantaged groups....

Decades of research have indicated that positive contact with sexual minorities is reliably associated with reduced sexual prejudice among heterosexuals (see Pettigrew & Tropp, 2006; Smith, Axelton, & Saucier, 2009). Despite this extensive literature, the gender of contact partners has been largely overlooked. In the present article, we propose a n...

Contact researchers have overlooked (a) the mechanisms that explain the association between negative contact and prejudice, (b) the effects of positive and negative contact on outcomes beyond prejudice, and (c) the importance of testing contact effects cross-culturally. In the present article, we addressed these gaps in the literature by drawing on...

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to present a framework that can be used to identify detrimental team processes in high reliability teams (HRTs), such as conflict, asymmetric perceptions and stress and coping appraisals, and develop interventions that eliminate these detrimental team processes. In addition, this paper suggests new directions for...