Publications

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2023

Johnson, B., Freiburger, E. E., Deska, J. C., & Kunstman, J. W., (2023). Social class and social pain: Target SES biases judgments of pain and support. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. Advance Online Publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167223115602 [PDF]

Paganini, G. A., McConnell, A. A., Deska, J. C., Almaraz, S. A., Hugenberg, K., & Lloyd, E. P. (2023). Waist-to-hip ratio predicts sexual perception and responses to sexual assault disclosures. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. Advance Online Publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672221148008 [PDF]

Hamovitch, L., Pejic, S. R., Zannella, L., & Deska J. C. (2023). Examining the effect of prison time on landlords’ willingness to rent to exonerees: A test of the stigma-by-association framework. Behavioral Sciences & The Law. Advance Online Publication. https://doi.org/10.1002/bsl.2608 [PDF]

2022

Deska J. C., Hingston, S. T., Lundin, M., & Hugenberg, K. (2022). Having the right face for the job: The effect of facial width-to-height ratio on job selection preference. British Journal of Social Psychology. Advance Online Publication. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12604 [PDF]

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), 400–422. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspi0000364 [PDF]

Deska, J. C., Hingston, S. T., DelVecchio, D., Stenstrom, E., Walker, R. J., & Hugenberg, K. (2022). The face of the brand: Spokesperson facial width-to-height ratio predicts brand personality judgments. Psychology & Marketing, 39(8), 1487-1503. https://doi.org/10.1002/mar.21666 [PDF]

2021

Benbow, K., Smith, B., Tolbert, K., Deska, J. C., & Kunstman, J. W. (2021). Race, the perceived minimization of social pain, and mental health. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 25(7), 1861-1879. https://doi.org/10.1177/13684302211040864 [PDF]

Summers K. M., Deska, J. C., Almaraz, S. M., Hugenberg, K., & Lloyd, E. P. (2021). Poverty and pain: Low-SES people are believed to be insensitive to pain. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 81, Article 104116. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2021.104116 [PDF]

2020

Deska, J. C., Kunstman, J. W., Smith, A. R., Witte, T. K., & Rancourt, D. (2020). Clinicians’ mental representations of psychopathology are more positive and complex than the lay public but also stigmatize suicide. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 51(5), 425-434. https://doi.org/10.1037/pro0000358 [PDF]

Deska, J. C.*, Kunstman, J. W.*, Bernstein, M. J., Ogungbadero, T., Hugenberg, K. (2020). Black racial phenotypicality shapes social pain and support judgments. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 90, Article 103998. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2020.103998 [PDF]
*shared first author

Deska, J. C., Almaraz, S. M., & Hugenberg, K. (2020). Dehumanizing prisoners: Remaining sentence duration predicts the ascription of mind to prisoners. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 46(11), 1614-1627. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167220911496 [PDF]

Deska, J. C.*, Kunstman, J. W.*, Lloyd, E. P., Almaraz, S. M., Bernstein, M. J., Gonzales, J. P., & Hugenberg, K. (2020). Race-based biases in judgments of social pain. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 88, Article 103964. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2020.103964 [PDF]
*shared first author

2019

Crowell, C. R., Deska, J. C., Villano, M., Zenk, J., Roddy Jr., J. T. (2019) Anthropomorphism of robots: Study of appearance and agency. JMIR Human Factors, 6(2), e12629. https://doi.org/10.2196/12629

Lloyd, E. P., Deska, J. C., Humphrey, B., Hugenberg, K., McConnell, A. R., & Kunstman, J. W. (2019). Miami University deception detection database. Behavior Research Methods, 51(1), 429-439. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-018-1061-4  [PDF]

2018

Deska, J. C., Lloyd, E. P., & Hugenberg, K. (2018). The face of fear and anger: Facial width-to-height ratio biases recognition of angry and fearful expressions. Emotion, 18(3), 453-464. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0000328 [PDF]

Deska, J. C., Lloyd, E. P., & Hugenberg, K. (2018). Facing humanness: Facial width-to-height ratio predicts ascriptions of humanity. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 114(1), 75-94. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspi0000110 [PDF]

Deska, J. C., & Hugenberg, K. (2018). Targets’ facial width-to-height ratio biases pain judgments. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 74, 56-64. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2017.08.004  [PDF]

2017

Deska, J. C., & Hugenberg, K. (2017). The face-mind link: Why we see minds behind faces, and how others’ minds change how we see their face. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 11(12), Article e12361. https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12361 [PDF]

Lloyd, E. P., Hugenberg, K., McConnell, A. R., Kunstman, J. W., & Deska, J. C. (2017). Black and White lies: Race-based biases in deception judgments. Psychological Science, 28(8), 1125-1136. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797617705399  [PDF]

Deska, J. C., Almaraz, S. M., & Hugenberg, K. (2017). Of mannequins and men: Judgments of animacy in faces are bounded by perceptual and processing similarities to human faces. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 8(2), 183-190. https://doi.org/10.1177/1948550616671404  [PDF]

2016

Khalid, S., Deska, J. C., & Hugenberg, K. (2016). The eyes are the windows to the mind: Direct eye gaze triggers the ascription of others’ minds. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 42(12), 1666-1677. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167216669124  [PDF]

Deska, J. C., Lloyd, E. P., & Hugenberg, K. (2016). Advancing our understanding of the interface between perception and intergroup relations. Psychological Inquiry, 27(4), 286-289. https://doi.org/10.1080/1047840X.2016.1215208  [PDF]

Kunstman, J. W., Plant, E. A., & Deska, J. C. (2016). White ≠ poor: Whites distance, derogate, and deny low-status ingroup members. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 42(2), 230-243. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167215623270  [PDF]

Walker, R. J., Smallman, R., Summerville, A., & Deska, J. C. (2016). Motivated by us but not by them: Group membership influences the impact of counterfactual thinking on behavioral intentions. Social Cognition, 34(4), 286-305. https://doi.org/10.1521/soco.2016.34.4.3  [PDF]