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Biography

Dr. Deska is an Associate Professor of Psychology and the director of the Social Perception and Intergroup Relations Lab at 成人大片. He received his PhD in social psychology at Miami University and completed his postdoctoral training at the University of Toronto. He supervises MA and PhD students and teaches courses related to social psychology and social cognition.

The goal of Dr. Deska鈥檚 research is to investigate how the impressions people form of others produce and sustain inequality. Specifically, Dr. Deska examines how social categories (e.g., race, socioeconomic status, sex, gender) and individual features (e.g., facial appearance, emotional expression, body shape) lead to discriminatory and dehumanizing outcomes.

Selected Publications:

O鈥橦agan, M. L., Pejic, S. R., & Deska, J. C. (2025). Black racial phenotypicality: Implications for the #BlackLivesMatter movement. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 116, 104696.

Paganini, G. A., McConnell, A. A., Deska, J. C., Almaraz, S. A., Hugenberg, K., & Lloyd, E. P. (2024). Waist-to-hip ratio predicts sexual perception and responses to sexual assault disclosures. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 50(6), 857-870.

Kunstman, J. W., Ogungbadero, T., Deska, J. C., Bernstein, M. J., Smith, A. R., & Hugenberg, K. (2023). Race-based biases in psychological distress and treatment judgments. PLOS ONE, 18(10), e0293078.

Hamovitch, L., Pejic, S. R., Zannella, L., & Deska J. C. (2023). Examining the effect of prison time on landlords鈥� willingness to rent to exonerees: A test of the stigma-by-association framework. Behavioral Sciences & The Law, 41(2), 78-95.

Alaei, R., Deska J. C., Hugenberg, K., & Rule, N. O. (2022). People attribute humanness to men and women differently based on their facial appearance. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 123(2), 400鈥�422.