Associate Professor

Office: Room 316G, Davidson Hall 
Phone: (502) 852-0070
Fax: (502) 852-8904
Email:  tlnewton@louisville.edu

Lab location: 201 Davidson Hall
Lab phone: 852-2665
Lab website: UofL Stress & Health Lab

 

Education

• Ph.D. Psychology, Rutgers University, 1992; B.A. Psychology, University of Michigan, 1979

Research Interests

• Psychophysiology of stress and emotion, particularly within the broader context of mental and physical health functioning and women's health issues

Courses Often Taught

• PSYC 609 Trauma and Memory;  PSYC 485-WR Stress and Trauma; PSYC 466/WGST 411 Psychology of Women; PSYC 385 Abnormal Psychology

Selected Publications

• Newton, T. L., Fernandez-Botran, R., Miller, J. J., Cambon, A. C., Burns, V. E., & Allison, K. E.  (in press).  Posttraumatic stress symptom severity and inflammatory processes in midlife women.  Psychological Trauma:  Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy.
• Fernandez-Botran, R., Miller, J. J., Burns, V. E., & Newton, T. L.  (2011).  Correlations among inflammatory markers in plasma, saliva and oral mucosal transudate in post-menopausal women with past intimate partner violence.  Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 25, 314-321.
• Newton, T. L.  (2009).  Cardiovascular functioning, personality, and the social world:  The domain of hierarchical power.  Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 33, 145-159.

• Newton, T. L., & Ho, I. K.  (2008).  Posttraumatic stress symptoms and emotion experience in women:  Emotion occurrence, intensity, and variability in the natural environment.  Journal of Psychological Trauma, 7, 276-297.

• Newton, T.L. Parker, B. C., & Ho, I. K.  (2005).  Ambulatory cardiovascular functioning in healthy postmenopausal women with victimization histories.  Biological Psychology, 70, 121-130.
• Peirce, J., Newton, T. L., Buckley, T., & Keane, T. M.  (2002).  Gender and the psychophysiology of posttraumatic stress disorder.  In R. Kimerling, P. Ouimette, & J. Wolfe (Eds.), Gender and PTSD (pp. 177-204).  Guilford Press.
• Kiecolt-Glaser, J. K., & Newton, T. L.  (2001).  Marriage and health:  His and hers.  Psychological Bulletin, 127, 472-503.