Jason Deska

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)!

Basargekar et al. (2024) find a sensitization effect for individuals with autism and speculate (albeit without data to support) it could be dehumanization/infantilization. Not sure I would put all of my eggs in that basket, but a similar paternalistic account could potentially explain our data too.

I've half a dozen ideas but nothing concrete and not nearly enough words to unpack them. Could be the group, could be the ppts, could be a shift in the literature. None of the mechanisms we tested panned out (hardship, SDO, empathy). It's striking considering how refugees are treated in reality.

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.

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I believe the old Meissner & Brigham meta-analysis talks about this

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...

Narrow prototypes of Asian subgroups in the United States: Implications for the Stop Asian Hate movement - Samantha R. Pejic, Jason C. Deska, 2025 The Stop Asian Hate movement is a collective for several anti-Asian-violence rallies and organizations in the United States (US). Research indicates that when a...

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.

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<em>British Journal of Social Psychology</em> | Wiley Online Library Psychological ownership refers to the subjective feeling that something is mine. Although research shows that observed behaviours towards a target object can signal psychological ownership to others,...

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.

Black racial phenotypicality: Implications for the #BlackLivesMatter Movement Black individuals with phenotypically African features tend to experience heightened discrimination and mistreatment. The current research examined ho…

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!

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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.

Congrats, and well-deserved! To this day I continue using many of your videos in my classes. Grateful for your efforts here.

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!

Welcome to the great white north!

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

I am not particularly active on social media, but you can add me if you like.

I really like my Branch chair. For the price it's great, and arguably more comfortable than my Herman Miller at work. If the HM wasn't provided, I'm sure I wouldn't have purchased one (so expensive!). The main difference, that I can tell, is fewer knobs and levers.

Ergonomic Chair Overview Designed in Italy and featuring eight points of adjustment, the Branch Ergonomic Chair delivers an exceptional range of ergonomic support for bodies of all shapes and sizes. Benefits Supports...

This is what I have at home www.branchfurniture.ca/products/erg...

At work we have herman miller chairs

In our recently published article, we explored pain perception biases in recently released prisoners.

Also, my first student's first lead-author paper! 🥰

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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...