Jason Deska
@jdeska.bsky.social
Associate professor of psychology and director of the Social Perception and Intergroup Relations Laboratory at Toronto Metropolitan University.
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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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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August 14, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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...
doi.org/10.1525/coll...
Reposted by Jason Deska
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...
Postdoctoral Fellowships for Black Scholars
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January 27, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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.
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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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January 17, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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/...
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.
<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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November 26, 2024 at 3:00 PM
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!
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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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November 18, 2024 at 7:59 PM
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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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.
November 12, 2024 at 11:10 PM
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!
October 16, 2024 at 10:14 PM
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/...
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October 6, 2024 at 6:27 PM
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! 🥰
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Also, my first student's first lead-author paper! 🥰
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November 18, 2023 at 7:59 PM
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/...
Also, my first student's first lead-author paper! 🥰
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Reposted by Jason Deska
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...
October 19, 2023 at 7:17 PM
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...