We're hiring two Asst. Profs @RyersonPsych. CLINICAL: emphasis on Culturally-Informed Clinical Practice. hr.cf.ryerson.ca/ams/faculty/pr… SOCIAL: open research, ability to teach psych and law an asset. hr.cf.ryerson.ca/ams/faculty/pr… Please share widely!

Read online today: Benbow, K. L., Smith, B. L., Tolbert, K. J., Deska, J. C., and Kunstman, J. W. (2021). Race, social pain minimization, and mental health. bit.ly/3rvv5QE

Lots of buzz about people accepting jobs! But, did you know that there are at least 2 great positions still accepting applications? We are hiring in clinical (hr.cf.ryerson.ca/ams/faculty/pr…) and social (hr.cf.ryerson.ca/ams/faculty/pr…)!

Today my first graduate student submitted her first paper! I'm not crying, you're crying.

Our department has a newly approved CIHR Tier 1 CRC in "Sex, Gender and Diversity in Brain Health, Cognition and Aging." If you are interested or have colleagues who might be, please consider applying or reaching out for more information. hr.cf.ryerson.ca/ams/faculty/pr…

Reservation confirmed for MPA after a several-years long hiatus. Can't wait to see the many people who I've dearly missed!

Such a fascinating talk by Y. Andre Wang at our Social Area Meeting today. Glad he could share his super interesting and innovative work with our group!

Today marks the first page of a new chapter in our university’s history. The Board of Governors has unanimously approved our new name – Toronto Metropolitan University. #torontomet ryerson.ca/news-events/ne…

The #face of the #brand Through four experiments, Deska & colleagues find that appearance-based aspects of the brand spokesperson (facial width-to-height ratio) affects brand judgments and purchase intentions. Read the research here 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10… @WileyPsychology

In our lab's latest paper, we examine how spokesperson facial characteristics influence brand personality judgments and subsequent consumer decisions: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.100…

This Saturday I'll be speaking Shaw Festival as part of the "The Art of Ideas" series. We'll be chatting about identities, and why we might hide our identities or assume a persona. Looking forward to an engaging discussion!

Very happy to share that Samantha Pejic successfully defended her MA thesis! Congrats, Sam!

If you want to learn multilevel modelling but don't know where to start, JK Flake 📈📏 and I have created the website for you: learn-mlms.com A brief summary of the materials and the impetus for them: (1/6)

Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University) is hiring 3 tenure stream psychology positions in: 1) Developmental 2) Social/Personality 3) Clinical Neuropsychology Love my department, happy to answer questions. Ads here: hr.cf.ryerson.ca/ams/faculty/

In our newest paper, which started as an undergraduate honour's thesis, we show that face structure influences job selection preferences. Some faces seem to fit "blue-collar" jobs whereas other faces seem better suited to "white-collar" jobs. bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bj…

🚨 New paper alert!🚨 Using two audit studies, we examined whether prison time effects landlords' willingness to rent to exonerees. Jason Deska Lesley Zannella onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

New paper from our team! In an interdisciplinary investigation led by Sally Zheng, we explored how possible selves and self-concept clarity relate to Generalized Anxiety Disorder. link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Psych instructors: I'm teaching grad and undergrad seminars on social cognition again after a few year's hiatus, and my syllabi and reading lists are increasingly dated. Any folks willing to share their own, or can point towards openly available ones? Thanks!

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/articl…