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Jason Deska

@jdeska.bsky.social
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Associate professor of psychology and director of the Social Perception and Intergroup Relations Laboratory at Toronto Metropolitan University.

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Jason Deska @jdeska.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Biidaasige Park on the new island down cherry street is probably the most notable new public space. I don’t think it’s fully complete yet though
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Jason Deska @jdeska.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
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
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Sincere But Suspect: Perceptions of Bisexual Women’s Authentic Expression in the Dating Context
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Jason Deska @jdeska.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
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...
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Jason Deska @jdeska.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
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)!
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Jason Deska @jdeska.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
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.
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Jason Deska @jdeska.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
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.
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Jason Deska @jdeska.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
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...
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Judgments of Refugees’ Sensitivity to Pain: Evidence for a Sensitization Effect
Refugees are often marginalized, vulnerable, and at-risk for substandard healthcare and pain management. Yet, little is known about how other individuals evaluate refugees’ pain sensitivity. As such, ...
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Jason Deska @jdeska.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
I believe the old Meissner & Brigham meta-analysis talks about this
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Becky Choma @beckychoma.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
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...
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Postdoctoral Fellowships for Black Scholars
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Jason Deska @jdeska.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
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/...
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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...
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Jason Deska @jdeska.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
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.
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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,...
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Jason Deska @jdeska.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
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...
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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…
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Jason Deska @jdeska.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
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.
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Jason Deska @jdeska.bsky.social · 24/10/2024
Congrats, and well-deserved! To this day I continue using many of your videos in my classes. Grateful for your efforts here.
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Jason Deska @jdeska.bsky.social · 16/10/2024
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!
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Jason Deska @jdeska.bsky.social · 11/10/2024
Welcome to the great white north!
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Jason Deska @jdeska.bsky.social · 06/10/2024
Toronto Metropolitan University is hiring in Quantitative Psych. hr.cf.torontomu.ca/ams/faculty/...
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Career Opportunities
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Jason Deska @jdeska.bsky.social · 13/09/2024
I am not particularly active on social media, but you can add me if you like.
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Jason Deska @jdeska.bsky.social · 10/09/2024
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.
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Jason Deska @jdeska.bsky.social · 10/09/2024
This is what I have at home www.branchfurniture.ca/products/erg... At work we have herman miller chairs
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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...
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Jason Deska @jdeska.bsky.social · 18/11/2023
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/...
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Research on Eating Disorders & Suicidality Lab @redslabauburn.bsky.social · 19/10/2023
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...
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