Heather C. Lench
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I am interested in the interactions between cognitions and emotions, including: (1) how thoughts and emotions influence judgments about the likelihood of future events and judgments about emotional reactions to those events; (2) how thoughts before entering a situation influence emotional and behavioral reactions; and (3) the implications of forecasts for health, memory and success.
Primary Interests:
- Applied Social Psychology
- Emotion, Mood, Affect
- Health Psychology
- Judgment and Decision Making
- Motivation, Goal Setting
- Research Methods, Assessment
- Social Cognition
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Journal Articles:
- Haynes, S. N., & Lench, H. C. (2003). Incremental validity of new clinical assessment measures. Psychological Assessment, 15, 456-466.
- Lench, H. C., & Chang, E. S. (in press). Belief in an unjust world: When beliefs in a just world fail. Journal of Personality Assessment.
- Lench, H. C., & Ditto, P. H. (in press). Automatic optimism: Biased use of base rate information for positive and negative events. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.
- Lench, H. C., & Levine, L. J. (2005). Effects of fear on risk and control judgments and memory: Implications for health promotion messages. Cognition and Emotion, 19, 1049-1069.
- Lench, H. C., Quas, J. A., & Edelstein, R. (2006). My child is better than average: The extension and restriction of unrealistic optimism. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 36, 2963-2979.
- Price, P. C., Pentecost (Lench), H. C., & Voth, R. D. (2002). Perceived event frequency and the optimistic bias: Evidence for a two-process model of personal risk judgments. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 38, 242-252.
- Price, P. C., Smith, A. R., & Lench, H. C. (2006). Effects of group size on the perceived risk of the average group member: The more, the riskier. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 90, 382-398.
Other Publications:
- Levine, L. J., Safer, M. A., & Lench, H. C. (2006). Remembering and misremembering emotions. In L. J. Sanna & E. C. Chang (Eds.), Judgments over time: The interplay of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors (pp. 271-290). New York: Oxford University Press.
Courses Taught:
- Cognition and Emotion
- Introduction to Human Behavior
- Introduction to Psychology
- The Social Animal
Heather C. Lench
Department of Psychology
Texas A&M University
College Station, Texas 77843-4235
United States of America
- Phone: (979) 845-0377