Heather Lench

Biography

Selected Publications

• Recent Publications

  • Levine, L. J., Lench, H. C., Stark, C. E. L., GCarlson, S. J., GCarpenter, Z. K., GPerez, K. A., Stark, S. M., & GFrithsen, A. (2020). Predicted and remembered emotion: Tomorrow’s vividness trumps yesterday’s accuracy. Memory, 28, 128-140.

  • GColes, N. A., Larsen, J. T., & Lench, H. C. (2019). A meta-analysis of the facial feedback literature: Effects of facial feedback on emotional experience are small and variable. Psychological Bulletin, 145, 610-651. (5-yr IF: 21.99).

  • Media coverage: KBTX (May 2019); ScienceDaily, today.tamu, USNews, Sciencealert, Earth.com, Yahoo News, The Independent, Happiness Podcst, Business Standard

  • Lench, H. C., Levine, L. J., GPerez, K. A., UCarpenter, Z. K., GCarlson, S. J., PBench, S. W., & GYidou, W. (2019). When and why people misestimate future feelings: Identifying strengths and weaknesses in affective forecasting. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 116, 724-742. (5-yr IF: 7.39).

  • Bench, S. W., & Lench, H. C. (2019). Boredom as a seeking state: Boredom prompts the pursuit of novel (even negative) experiences. Emotion, 19, 242-254. 

  • Lench, H. C., Levine, L. J., Perez, K., Haggenmiller, Z. K., Carlson, S. J., & Tibbett, T. (2019). Changes in subjective well-being following the U.S. Presidential Election of 2016. Emotion, 19, 1-9.

  • Lange, K., Fields, S., Lench, H. C., & Lazerus, T. (2018). Prompts to regulate emotions improve the impact of health messages on eating intentions and behavior. Motivation Science, 42, 267-275.

  • Lench, H. C. (2018). Functions of emotion: When and why emotions help us. Springer Nature: Switzerland.

  • Lench, H. C., & Carpenter, Z. K. (2018). What do emotions do for us? In H. C. Lench (Ed.), Functions of emotion: When and why emotions help us. Springer Nature: Switzerland.

  • Lench, H. C., Baldwin, C. L., Garrison, K. E., & An, D. (2018). The emotional toolkit: Lessons from the science of emotion. In H. C. Lench (Ed.), Functions of emotion: When and why emotions help us. Springer Nature: Switzerland.

  • Alexander, J., Houghton, D. C., Bauer, C. C., Lench, H. C., & Woods, D. W. (2018). Emotion regulation deficits in persons with body-focused repetitive behaviors. Journal of Affective Disorders, 227, 463-470.

  • Perez, K. A., & Lench, H. C. (2018). Benefits of awe in the workplace. In D.Lindebaum, Geddes, D., & Jordan, P. J. (Eds.), Emotion in management: The functions of emotion at work and how we talk about it.

  • Levine, L. J., Lench, H. C., Karnaze, M., & Carlson, S. (2018). Bias in predicted and remembered emotion. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 19, 73-77.

  • Lench, H. C., Bench, S. W., & Perez, K. A. (2017). Building a house of sentiment on sand: Epistemological issues with contempt. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 40, 33-34.

  • Perez, K., & Lench, H. C. (2017). Wonder. In M. Wrobel (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences, 1-3.

  • Bench, S. W., Rivera, G. N., Schlegel, R. J., Hicks, J. A., & Lench, H. C. (2017). Does expertise matter in replication? An examination of the Reproducibility Project: Psychology. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 68, 181-184.