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D-Index
32
Citations
5584
World Ranking
7267
National Ranking
3532

Dana Mastro publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Dana Mastro sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 71 publications — 3rd percentile

3% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Dana Mastro D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Dana Mastro sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 32 D-Index — 8th percentile

8% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Overview

Dana Mastro is affiliated with the University of California, Santa Barbara in the United States. Their research primarily belongs to the field of Social Sciences, with significant contributions across subfields such as Sociology and Political Science, Communication, Literature and Literary Theory, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, and Education.

The main topics covered in their work include Social Media and Politics, Social and Intergroup Psychology, Impact of Technology on Adolescents, Media Studies and Communication, Media Influence and Health, Media Influence and Politics, and Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior.

Their recent publications include:

  • Confirming Bias Without Knowing? Automatic Pathways Between Media Exposure and Selectivity, 2020, Communication Research
  • Reinvention mediates impacts of skin tone bias in algorithms: implications for technology diffusion, 2024, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication
  • If They Only Disrespect Us a Little, and the Story is Interesting, I Keep Watching: Navigation of Ethnic Media Gratifications by Latino Teens, 2021, Journal of Adolescent Research
  • Dis"Like", 2021, Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
  • Linguistic Characteristics of Interracial Interactions on Primetime TV: A Quantitative Content Analysis, 2022, Western Journal of Communication

Frequent coauthors in Dana Mastro's work include Amy L. Gonzales, Muniba Saleem, Anne C. Kroon, Toni G.L.A. van der Meer, and Hannah Overbye-Thompson.

Their publications have often appeared in venues such as Communication Research, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, Journal of Adolescent Research, Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, and Western Journal of Communication.

Best Publications

  • Latino Representation on Primetime Television

    Dana E. Mastro;Elizabeth Behm-Morawitz

  • The Effects of the Sexualization of Female Video Game Characters on Gender Stereotyping and Female Self-Concept

    Elizabeth Behm-Morawitz;Dana Mastro

  • The Portrayal of Racial Minorities on Prime Time Television

    Dana E. Mastro;Bradley S. Greenberg

  • Documenting Portrayals of Race/Ethnicity on Primetime Television over a 20-Year Span and Their Association with National-Level Racial/Ethnic Attitudes

    Riva Tukachinsky;Dana Mastro;Moran Yarchi

  • MEAN GIRLS? THE INFLUENCE OF GENDER PORTRAYALS IN TEEN MOVIES ON EMERGING ADULTS' GENDER-BASED ATTITUDES AND BELIEFS

    Elizabeth Behm-Morawitz;Dana E. Mastro

  • Representations of Race in Television Commercials: A Content Analysis of Prime-Time Advertising

    Dana E. Mastro;Susannah R. Stern

  • Exposure to Television Portrayals of Latinos: The Implications of Aversive Racism and Social Identity Theory

    Dana E. Mastro;Elizabeth Behm-Morawitz;Maria A. Kopacz

  • A social identity approach to understanding the impact of television messages

    Dana E. Mastro

  • The Cultivation of Social Perceptions of Latinos: A Mental Models Approach

    Dana Mastro;Elizabeth Behm-Morawitz;Michelle Ortiz

  • The Influence of Exposure to Depictions of Race and Crime in TV News on Viewer's Social Judgments

    Dana Mastro;Maria Knight Lapinski;Maria A. Kopacz;Elizabeth Behm-Morawitz

  • Media's influence on immigration attitudes: An intergroup threat theory approach

    Anita Atwell Seate;Dana Mastro

  • Depictions of Gender on Primetime Television: A Quantitative Content Analysis

    Alexander Sink;Dana Mastro

  • Minorities and the mass media: Television into the 21st century

    Bradley S Greenberg;Dana Mastro;Jeffrey E Brand

  • The Influence of Exemplar Versus Prototype‐Based Media Primes on Racial/Ethnic Evaluations

    Dana Mastro;Riva Tukachinsky

  • Social Identity Theory as a Framework for Understanding the Effects of Exposure to Positive Media Images of Self and Other on Intergroup Outcomes

    Christopher J. McKinley;Dana Mastro;Katie M. Warber

  • EFFECTS OF RACIAL AND ETHNIC STEREOTYPING

    Dana Mastro

  • Media Representations of Race, Prototypicality, and Policy Reasoning: An Application of Self-Categorization Theory

    Dana E. Mastro;Maria A. Kopacz

  • The Effect of Prime Time Television Ethnic/Racial Stereotypes on Latino and Black Americans: A Longitudinal National Level Study

    Riva Tukachinsky;Dana Mastro;Moran Yarchi

  • Internet Search Behaviors and Mood Alterations: A Selective Exposure Approach

    Dana E. Mastro;Matthew S. Eastin;Ron Tamborini

  • The Color of Crime and the Court: A Content Analysis of Minority Respresentation on Television:

    Ron Tamborini;Dana E. Mastro;Rebecca M. Chory-Assad;Ren He Huang

Frequent Co-Authors

Ron Tamborini
Ron Tamborini Michigan State University
Bradley S. Greenberg
Bradley S. Greenberg Michigan State University
Maria Knight Lapinski
Maria Knight Lapinski Michigan State University
Howard Giles
Howard Giles University of California, Santa Barbara
Linda R. Tropp
Linda R. Tropp University of Massachusetts Amherst
Andrew C. Billings
Andrew C. Billings University of Alabama

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