Assistant Professor, Psychology
Contact Information
Email [email protected]
Phone 909-558-8578
Department of Psychology
Loma Linda University, Central Building, Suite 119
11130 Anderson St., Loma Linda, CA 92350
Website
Degrees and Certifications
- PhD, Social Psychology - University of Southern California, 2019
- MA, Social Psychology - University of Southern California, 2016
- MA, Experimental Psychology - College of William and Mary, 2014
Areas of Specialization
- Well-being
- Social psychology
- Personality psychology
- Health psychology
- Emotions
- Ecological Momentary Assessment
- Multilevel modeling
Professional Licenses and Memberships
- Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Member
- Association for Psychological Science, Member
- International Positive Psychology Association, Member
Recent Publications and Presentations
- Newman, D. B., Gordon, A. M., & Mendes, W. B. (2025). Income and education show distinct links to health and happiness in daily life. Nature Human Behaviour, 9, 2299–2312.
- Kiper, G., Newman, D. B., & Oyserman, D. (2025). Believing that difficulties are character-building supports well-being and positively frames daily life. Self and Identity, 24(5), 449-476.
- Newman, D. B., Balkaya-Ince, M., Nelson, J. M., Tsang, J., & Schnitker, S. A. (2025). Feelings of gratitude to Allah and people and their associations with affect in daily life. Cognition and Emotion, 39(4), 821-828
- Newman, D. B., Lutz, P. K., Sachs, M. E., & Zelenski, J. M. (2025). Unlocking the bitter potential of nostalgia: Covariation between and causal effects of nostalgia on envy. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 128(2), 438-455.
- Trujillo, M. A., Newman, D. B., & Mendes, W. B. (2025). Sexual orientation and daily stress and wellbeing. Health Psychology, 44(3), 197-206.
- Lutz, P. K., Newman, D. B., & Zelenski, J. M. (2025). Belief in a just world, well-being, and prosocial behavior: A daily diary perspective. Personality and Individual Differences, 233, 112886.
- Newman, D. B., Gordon, A. M., O’Bryan, J., & Mendes, W. B. (2024). Stress reduction experiments in daily life: Scaling from the lab to the world. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 153(4), 1076-1092.
- Newman, D. B., Nezlek, J. B., & Tay, L. (2024). General gratitude and gratitude to God: Associations with personality and well-being. Journal of Positive Psychology, 19(1), 157-165.
- Busseri, M. A. & Newman, D. B. (2024). Happy days: Resolving the structure of daily subjective well-being, between and within individuals. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 15(1), 80-92.
- Lutz, P. K., Zelenski, J. M., & Newman, D. B. (2023). Eco-anxiety in daily life: Relationships with well-being and pro-environmental behavior. Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology, 4, 100110.
- Newman, D. B., & Sachs, M. E. (2023). Variation in bittersweet nostalgic feelings and their divergent effects on daily well-being. Emotion, 23(4), 937-948.
- Newman, D. B., Gordon, A. M., Prather, A. A., & Mendes, W. B. (2023). Examining daily associations among sleep, stress, and blood pressure across adulthood. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 57(6), 453-462.
- Newman, D. B., Nezlek, J. B., & Thrash, T. M. (2023). The dynamics of prayer in daily life and implications for well-being. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 124(6), 1299-1313.
- Lutz, P. K., Newman, D. B., Schlegel, R. J., & Wirtz, D. (2023). Authenticity, meaning in life, and life satisfaction: A multicomponent investigation at the trait and state levels. Journal of Personality, 91(3), 541-555.
- Tay, L., Thapa, S., Newman, D. B., & De Choudhury, M. (2022). Using social media to assess expressions of gratitude to God: Issues for consideration. Religions, 13(9), 778.
- Newman, D. B. (2022). Low income amplifies the negative relationship between nostalgia proneness and well-being. Applied Research in Quality of Life, 17, 3311-3326.
- Newman, D. B., Epel, E. S., Coccia, M., Puterman, E., & Prather, A. A. (2022). Asymmetrical effects of sleep and emotions in daily life. Affective Science, 3, 307-317. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42761-022-00112-x
- Newman, D. B., Schneider, S., & Stone, A. A. (2022). Contrasting effects of finding meaning and searching for meaning, and political orientation and religiosity, on feelings and behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 48(6), 923-936
- Newman, D. B., & Nezlek, J. B. (2022). The influence of daily events on emotion regulation and well-being in daily life. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 48(1), 19-33.
- Newman, D. B., Gordon, A. M., & Mendes, W. B. (2021). Comparing daily physiological and psychological benefits of gratitude and optimism using a digital platform. Emotion, 21(7), 1357-1365.
- Wen, C., K., Junghaenel, D. U., Newman, D. B., Schneider, S., Mendez, M…. & Stone, A. A. (2021). The effect of training on participant adherence with a reporting time frame for momentary subjective experiences in Ecological Momentary Assessment: Cognitive interview study. Journal of Medical Internet Research: Formative Research, 5(5), e28007
- Newman, D. B., Schwarz, N., & Stone, A. A. (2021). Global reports of well-being overestimate aggregated daily states of well-being. Journal of Positive Psychology, 16(3), 407-416. doi. 10.1080/17439760.2020.1725608
- Newman, D. B., Gordon, A. M., & Mendes, W. B. (2025, May). Is it better to be rich or educated? Associations of individual and community level socioeconomic indicators with health and well-being. Symposium talk presented at the annual conference for the Association for Psychological Science, Washington, D.C.
- Newman, D. B., Gordon, A. M., & Mendes, W. B. (2025, March). Is it better to be rich or educated? Associations of individual and community level socioeconomic indicators with health, stress, and positive emotions. Flash talk presented at the annual conference for the Society for Affective Science, Portland, OR.
- Trujillo, M. A., Newman, D. B., & Mendes, W. B. (2025, February). Sexual orientation and daily stress and wellbeing. Symposium talk presented at the 26th annual conference of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Denver, CO.
- Newman, D. B., Gordon, A. M., & Mendes, W. B. (2024, February). Is it better to be rich or educated? An Ecological Momentary Assessment study examining associations of individual and community level socioeconomic indicators with health and happiness. Symposium talk presented at the 25th annual conference of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Diego, CA.
- Newman, D. B., Gordon, A. M., O’Bryan, J., & Mendes, W. B. (2023, March). Examining the effectiveness of a paced breathing exercise on positive affect and blood pressure: Scaling from the lab to daily life. Flash talk presented at the annual conference for the Society for Affective Science, Long Beach, CA.
- Newman, D. B., Gordon, A. M., & Mendes, W. B. (2023, March). Large scale mobile sensing to assess physiological and psychological states in daily life. Symposium talk presented at the 80th annual conference for the American Psychosomatic Society, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
- Newman, D. B., Lutz, P., & Sachs, M. E. (2023, February). Nostalgia’s bitter potential: Bidirectional relationships between nostalgia and envy. Symposium talk presented at the 24th annual conference of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Atlanta, GA.
- Newman, D. B., Nezlek, J. B., & Tay, L. (2023, February). Expressions and feelings of interhuman gratitude and gratitude to God in daily life. Invited talk presented at the Psychology of Religion and Spirituality Pre-Conference at the 24th annual conference of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Atlanta, GA.
- Newman, D. B., Gordon, A. M., Moore, J., & Mendes, W. B. (2022, October). Stress reduction experiments in daily life: Scaling from the lab to the world. Symposium talk presented at the annual conference for the Society of Experimental Social Psychology, Philadelphia, PA.
- Newman, D. B. (2022, March). The unique affective benefits of gratitude to God relative to interhuman gratitude in daily life. Flash talk presented at the Positive Emotions Pre-conference at the annual conference for the Society for Affective Science, virtual conference.
- Newman, D. B. (2022, February). Reflections of gratitude to God in daily life. Data Blitz talk to be presented at the Psychology of Religion and Spirituality Pre-conference at the 23rd annual conference of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Francisco, CA.
- Newman, D. B., & Mendes, W. B. (2021, July). The influence of dispositional gratitude and optimism on health and well-being in daily life. Podium talk presented at the 7th International Positive Psychology Association World Congress, virtual conference.
- Newman, D. B., & Sachs, M. E. (2021, April). The effect of nostalgia on well-being depends on the elicitor. Talk presented at the conference for the Society for Affective Society, virtual conference.
- Newman, D. B., Schneider, S., & Stone, A. A. (2021, February). Contrasting effects of finding meaning and searching for meaning in life on feelings and behaviors during the covid-19 pandemic. Symposium talk presented at the 22nd annual conference of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, virtual conference.