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Overview

Daniel Linz is affiliated with the University of California, Santa Barbara in the United States. Their research spans several fields, predominantly focusing on psychology, medicine, and social sciences. Within these fields, their work addresses subfields such as clinical psychology, social psychology, public health, environmental and occupational health, gender studies, and cultural studies.

The main topics explored in Linz's research include grief, bereavement, and mental health; LGBTQ health, identity, and policy; patient dignity and privacy; sexuality, behavior, and technology; gender, feminism, and media; Asian culture and media studies; and palliative care and end-of-life issues.

Linz has contributed to multiple academic publications with notable papers such as:

  • "Methodological Issues in the Content Analysis of Pornography," 2025, University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
  • "End-of-life topic avoidance among gender-diverse young adults: the importance of normalizing gender-affirming end-of-life conversations," 2023, Human Communication Research
  • "Overcoming Ungrievability: Transgender Expectations for Identity after Death," 2020, Sociological Inquiry

Their frequent co-authors include Stephenson Brooks Whitestone, with whom they have collaborated on multiple papers, as well as Howard Giles and Edward Donnerstein. Linz has published in various academic venues including Sociological Inquiry, University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform, and Human Communication Research.

The interdisciplinary nature of Linz's research centers on issues at the intersection of social identity, mental health, and communication. Their work on transgender identity and end-of-life topics contributes to social sciences and health communication, while their methodological work addresses challenges in analyzing sensitive content such as pornography. Studies related to patient dignity and privacy emphasize clinical and public health concerns, reflecting their engagement with healthcare communication.

Best Publications

  • The Influence of Media Violence on Youth

    Craig A. Anderson;Leonard Berkowitz;Edward I Donnerstein;L. Rowell Huesmann

  • Overrepresentation and Underrepresentation of African Americans and Latinos as Lawbreakers on Television News

    Travis L. Dixon;Daniel Linz

  • Using the confluence model of sexual aggression to predict men's conflict with women: A 10-year follow-up study.

    Neil M. Malamuth;Daniel Linz;Christopher L. Heavey;Gordon Barnes

  • Effects of long-term exposure to violent and sexually degrading depictions of women.

    Daniel G. Linz;Edward Donnerstein;Steven Penrod

  • Race and the Misrepresentation of Victimization on Local Television News

    Travis L. Dixon;Daniel Linz

  • The Question of Pornography: Research Findings and Policy Implications

    Edward I. Donnerstein;Daniel Linz;Steven Penrod

  • The inventory of beliefs about wife beating: the construction and initial validation of a measure of beliefs and attitudes

    Daniel G. Saunders;Ann B. Lynch;Marcia Grayson;Daniel Linz

  • The Effects of Multiple Exposures to Filmed Violence Against Women

    Daniel G. Linz;Edward Donnerstein;Steven Penrod

  • Predicting Men's Antisocial Behavior Against Women: The Interaction Model of Sexual Aggression

    Neil M. Malamuth;Christopher L. Heavey;Daniel Linz

  • Violence in Children's Television Programming: Assessing the Risks

    Barbara J. Wilson;Stacy L. Smith;W. James Potter;Dale Kunkel

  • Desensitization and resensitization to violence against women: Effects of exposure to sexually violent films on judgments of domestic violence victims.

    Charles R. Mullin;Daniel Linz

  • Sexual Priming, Gender Stereotyping, and Likelihood to Sexually Harass: Examining the Cognitive Effects of Playing a Sexually-Explicit Video Game

    Mike Z. Yao;Chad Mahood;Daniel G Linz

  • Physiological Desensitization and Judgments About Female Victims of Violence

    Daniel Linz;Edward I Donnerstein;Steven M. Adams

  • Mass Media Sexual Violence and Male Viewers Current Theory and Research

    Edward I. Donnerstein;Daniel G. Linz

  • The Confluence Model of Sexual Aggression: Combining Hostile Masculinity and Impersonal Sex

    Neil M. Malamuth;Christopher L. Heavey;Daniel Linz

  • The Context of Current Content Analysis of Gender Roles: An Introduction to a Special Issue

    Rena M. Rudy;Lucy Popova;Daniel G. Linz

  • Exposure to sexually explicit materials and attitudes toward rape: A comparison of study results

    Daniel Linz

  • Television News, Prejudicial Pretrial Publicity, and the Depiction of Race

    Travis L. Dixon;Daniel Linz

  • Sexuality and pornography.

    Gert Martin Hald;Christopher Seaman;Daniel Linz

  • The findings and recommendations of the Attorney General's Commission on Pornography: Do the psychological "facts" fit the political fury?

    Daniel Linz;Edward Donnerstein;Steven Penrod

Frequent Co-Authors

Steven D. Penrod
Steven D. Penrod John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Edward Donnerstein
Edward Donnerstein University of Arizona
Neil M. Malamuth
Neil M. Malamuth University of California, Los Angeles
Howard Giles
Howard Giles University of California, Santa Barbara
Daniel G. Saunders
Daniel G. Saunders University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Ellen Wartella
Ellen Wartella Northwestern University
L. Rowell Huesmann
L. Rowell Huesmann University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Robin L. Nabi
Robin L. Nabi University of California, Santa Barbara
Craig A. Anderson
Craig A. Anderson Iowa State University
Leonard Berkowitz
Leonard Berkowitz University of Wisconsin–Madison

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