Lisa Diamond

About

Lisa Diamond, Ph.D., is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Utah, with expertise in developmental psychology, health psychology, and gender studies. Her research focuses on sexuality, gender, and intimate relationships, and their implications for health and well-being over the life course. Her primary research areas include fluidity in sexual and gender expression among women and men, biological underpinnings of sexual desire and experience, the impact of early-life adversity on social and sexual development, and the implications of sexual well-being for physical and mental health. Dr. Diamond employs a diverse range of research methods, including longitudinal observation, controlled laboratory experiments, and collection of biomarkers such as oxytocin, cortisol, and markers of systemic inflammation. She has contributed extensively to understanding sexual fluidity, gender identities among children and adolescents, and the biological and social factors influencing sexual and gender diversity.

Research topics

• Social psychology
• Psychology
• Psychiatry
• Sociology
• Medicine
• Developmental psychology
• Environmental health
• Gender studies
• Clinical psychology

Selected publications

• Rethinking minority stress: A social safety perspective on the health effects of stigma in sexually-diverse and gender-diverse populations

  Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews · 2022 · 355 citations

  1st authorCorresponding
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• Gender Fluidity and Nonbinary Gender Identities Among Children and Adolescents

  Child Development Perspectives · 2020 · 153 citations

  1st authorCorresponding

  Abstract A growing number of children and adolescents report having gender identities or expressions that differ from their birth-assigned gender or from social and cultural gender norms. Some identify as transgender, whereas others consider themselves nonbinary or gender fluid. Nonbinary and gender fluid youth are distinct from transgender youth in that they typically report that their gender identity (i.e., their internal sense of gender) or their gender expression (i.e., their public presenta…

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• The Health Benefits of Sexual Expression

  International Journal of Sexual Health · 2021-09-25 · 75 citations

  articleOpen accessSenior author

  Objective: Sexual activity is a fundamental human function with short-term and long-term emotional, social, and physical benefits. Yet within healthcare, sexuality has been marginalized and many HCPs are unaware of its beneficial implications for immediate and long-term health. Methods: To challenge this assumption we combined the data that already had been collected by the authors with an extensive search of articles on the various health benefits of sexual activity. The results of this process…

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• Systemic inflammation as a driver of health disparities among sexually-diverse and gender-diverse individuals

  Psychoneuroendocrinology · 2021 · 69 citations

  1st authorCorresponding
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• Early childhood adversity and Women’s sexual behavior: The role of sensitivity to sexual reward

  Developmental Review · 2021-07-28 · 28 citations

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Recent grants

• NIH Grant R03MH064813

  NIH · $150k · 2004

Frequent coauthors

• Angela M. Hicks

  Westminster University

  16 shared

• Jenna Alley

  Neurobehavioral Systems

  15 shared

• Christopher P. Fagundes

  University of Houston

  9 shared

• Janna A. Dickenson

  University of California, San Diego

  8 shared

• Molly R. Butterworth

  7 shared

• Ritch C. Savin‐Williams

  6 shared

• Karen L. Blair

  5 shared

• Michel Raymond

  5 shared

Labs

• Lisa Diamond's LabPI

  Postdoctoral Researchers

Education

• Ph.D., Developmental Psychology

  The University of Utah

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