Joseph Newman

Phone: 262.3810
Email: jpnewman@facstaff.wisc.edu
Office: 317 Psychology

Professor
Ph.D. 1979, Indiana University

I am studying the psychological processes that contribute to the dysregulationof behavior, emotion, and cognition. Most of this research has focusedon syndromes of disinhibition such as psychopathy (antisocial personalitydisorder), conduct disorder, aggression, and impulsivity. However, my studentsand I are also studying how emotionality short-circuits cognitive processingand engenders dysregulation in people with high anxiety.

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

Newman, J. P., & Lorenz, A. R. (2003). Response modulation and emotion processing: Implications for psychopathy and other dysregulatory psychopathology. In R. J. Davidson, K. Scherer, & H. H. Goldsmith (Eds.), Handbook of Affective Sciences, Oxford University Press (pp. 1043-1067).

Hiatt, K. D., Schmitt, W. A., & Newman, J. P. (2004). Stroop tasks reveal abnormal selective attention in psychopathic offenders, Neuropsychology, 18(1), 50–59.

Brinkley, C. A., Newman, J. P., Widiger, T. A., & Lynam, D. R. (2004). Two approaches to parsing the heterogeneity of psychopathy, Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice, 11, 69-94.

MacCoon, D. G., Wallace, J. F., & Newman, J. P. (2004). Self-regulation: the context-appropriate allocation of attentional capacity to dominant and non-dominant cues. In R. F. Baumeister & K. D. Vohs, (Eds.), Handbook of Self-Regulation: Research, Theory, and Applications. New York: Guilford (pp. 422-446).

Vitale, J. E., Newman, J. P., Bates, J. E., Goodnight, J., Dodge, K. A., & Petit, G. S. (in press). Deficient behavioral inhibition and anomalous selective attention in a community sample of adolescents with psychopathic and low-anxiety traits. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology.

Lorenz, A. R. & Newman, J. P. (2002). Utilization of emotion cues in male and female offenders with antisocial personality disorder: Results from a lexical decision task, Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 111, 513-516.

Lorenz, A. R., & Newman, J. P. (2002). Deficient response modulation and emotion processing in low-anxious Caucasian psychopathic offenders: Results from a lexical decision task. Emotion, 2, 91-104.

Lorenz, A. R., & Newman, J. P. (2002). Do emotion and information processing deficiencies found in Caucasian psychopaths generalize to African-American psychopaths? Personality and Individual Differences, 32, 1077-1086.

Sutton, S. K., Vitale, J. E., & Newman, J. P. (2002). Emotion among females with psychopathy during picture perception. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 111, 610-619.

Bernstein, A., Newman, J. P., Wallace, J. F., Luh, K. E. (2000). Left hemisphere activation and deficient response modulation in psychopaths, Psychological Science, 11, 414-418.

Schmitt, W. A., Brinkley, C. A., & Newman, J. P. (1999). The application of Damasio=s somatic marker hypothesis to psychopathic individuals: Risk-takers or risk-averse?, Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 108, 538-543.

Newman, J. P., & Schmitt, W. A. (1998). Passive avoidance in psychopathic offenders: A replication and extension, Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 107, 527-532.

Newman, J. P. (1998). Psychopathic behavior: An information processing perspective. In D. J. Cooke, R. D. Hare, & A. Forth (Eds.), Psychopathy: Theory, Research and Implications for Society, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, (pp. 81-104).

Newman, J. P., Schmitt, W. A., & Voss, W. (1997). The impact of motivationally neutral cues on psychopathic individuals: Assessing the generality of the response modulation hypothesis. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 106, 563-575.

Newman, J. P., & Brinkley, C. A. (1997). Reconsidering the low-fear explanation for primary psychopathy. Psychological Inquiry, 8, 236-244.

Newman, J. P., Wallace, J. F., Schmitt, W. A., & Arnett, P. A. (1997). Behavioral inhibition system functioning in anxious, impulsive, and psychopathic individuals. Personality and Individual Differences, 23, 583-592.

Wallace, J. F., & Newman, J. P. (1997). Neuroticism and the attentional mediation of dysregulatory psychopathology. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 21, 135-156.

Patterson, C. M., & Newman, J. P. (1993). Reflectivity and learning from aversive events: Toward a psychological mechanism for the syndromes of disinhibition. Psychological Review, 100, 716-736.

Gorenstein, E. E., & Newman, J. P. (1980). Disinhibitory psychopathology: A new perspective and a model for research. Psychological Review, 87, 301-315.