Jason Deska

I had the great privilege to hood my first PhD student today. Congratulations to Dr. Pejic for this wonderful accomplishment. I'm so proud and grateful to have played a role in your journey.

Psychology department at Toronto Metropolitan University is hiring at the assistant rank, several possible areas of expertise, see ad here: hr.cf.torontomu.ca/ams/faculty/...

Paper alert, and first in a new line of work! We examined a frustrating paradox - using bisexual display to combat bi-invisibility and feel authentic lead ppts to judge women as relatively inauthentic, untrustworthy, and unlikeable. Stay tuned for more on authenticity and sexuality. rdcu.be/fqe1y

New paper from our team, led by the exceptional @lindseysnaychuk.bsky.social, shows how compulsive sexual behaviour is generally more stigmatized than other addictions and mental health conditions - especially for men relative to women. www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Recently surpassed 1000 citations for my papers, which feels an occasion worth marking. Interestingly, no paper has more than 100 citations, evincing the consistent impact we’ve been able to make. I’m excited for the next 1000 citations (and to see which paper wins the race to 100)!

Refugees are often marginalized, vulnerable, and at-risk for substandard healthcare and pain management. In our newest paper, we examined how people evaluate refugees’ sensitivity to pain, finding evidence consistent with a sensitization effect. doi.org/10.1525/coll...

My university, Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU), has Postdoctoral Fellowships for Black Scholars. Deadline is March 31, 2025. You must be eligible to work in Canada by the time the award would begin (Sept 2025). Decisions are July 2025. More info here: www.torontomu.ca/graduate/pos...

New paper alert! In the US, people view East Asians as prototypically Asian, especially compared to South Asians. This has implications for representation in #StopAsianHate, and it affects how hate crime reports are evaluated. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

In our newest paper, we find a link between cues signaling dominance and judgments of psychological ownership. We infer that more dominant people are likelier to claim psychological ownership over both tangible products and intangible entities.

Now available online: our new paper examining how Black racial prototypicality influences who gets to claim membership in #BlackLivesMatter and implications for perceptions of hate crime victimization. Led by graduate students Maire O'Hagan and Sam Pejic! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Our lab team has had two student-led papers accepted in the past week! Both examine questions related to who gets to claim membership in social justice movements, and implications for victims of hate crimes. I'll share more details in the near future.

Very proud of my two students who received their MA today! Lucas examined how people evaluate Bi+ individuals' authenticity. His PhD research will continue in this theme. Karen examined how people evaluate deepfake videos. She recently started a full-time industry research position. Congrats!

Toronto Metropolitan University is hiring in Quantitative Psych. hr.cf.torontomu.ca/ams/faculty/...

In our recently published article, we explored pain perception biases in recently released prisoners. Also, my first student's first lead-author paper! 🥰 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Our new paper finds, " Laypeople and mental healthcare providers believed psychopathology harms Black individuals less than White individuals and these distress biases informed treatment judgments." journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...