Publications
Journal Articles
Lench, H. C., Levine, L. J., & Whalen, C. K. (2011). Exasperating or exceptional? Parents’ interpretations of their child’s ADHD behavior. Journal of Attention Disorders.
Lench, H. C., & Flores, S. A. (in press). The fast and the dangerous: The speed of events influences risk judgments. British Journal of Social Psychology.
Darbor, K. E., & Lench, H. C. (in press). Anger and aggression. In M. Shally-Jensen (Ed.), Mental Health Care Issues in America. ABC-CLIO (Praeger)
Lench, H. C., Flores, S. A., & Bench, S. W. (2011). Discrete emotions predict changes in cognition, judgment, experience, behavior, and physiology: A meta-analysis of experimental emotion elicitations. Psychological Bulletin, 137, 834-855.
Lench, H. C., Safer, M. A., & Levine, L. J. (2011). Event salience and bias in anticipated emotion: When it’s worse than imagined. Emotion, 11, 278-285.
Lench, H. C. (2011). Understanding optimism as an emotional response to the future. In P. R. Brandt (Ed.), Psychology of Optimism. (pp. 167-174). New York: Nova Science.
Lench, H. C. (2011). Personality and health outcomes: Making positive expectations a reality. Journal of Happiness Studies, 12, 493-507.
Lench, H. C., Schlegel, R., & Berry, C. (2010). Guide for Elementary Statistics for Psychology. Iowa: Kendall-Hunt Publishers.
Lench, H. C., Levine, L. J., & Roe, E. (2010). To the pointe: Predictors of dancer’s health. Dance Science & Medicine, 14, 163-170.
Davis, E., Levine, L. J., Lench, H. C., & Quas, J. A. (2010). Metacognitive emotion regulation: Children’s awareness that changing thoughts and goals can alleviate negative emotions. Emotion, 10, 498-510.
Lench, H. C., & Levine, L. J. (2010). Motivational biases in memory for emotion. Cognition and Emotion, 24, 401-418.
Levine, L. J., Lench, H. C., & Safer, M. A. (2009). Functions of remembering and misremembering emotion. Applied Cognitive Psychology, Special Issue: What the Hell is it for?, 23, 1059-1075.
Lench, H. C., GBench, S. W., GFlores, S. A., & Ditto, P. H. (2009). Automatic optimism: The role of desire in judgments about the likelihood of future events. In E. P. Lamont (Ed.), Social Psychology: New Research. (pp. 55-79). New York: Nova Science.
Lench, H. C. (2009). Automatic optimism: The affective basis of judgments about the likelihood of future events. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 138,187-200.
Lench, H. C., & Levine, L. J. (2008). Goals and responses to failure: Knowing when to hold them and when to fold them. Motivation and Emotion, 32, 127-140.
Lench, H. C., & Ditto, P. H. (2008). Automatic optimism: Biased use of base rate information for positive and negative events. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 44, 631-639.
Lench, H. C., & Chang, E. S. (2007). Belief in an unjust world: When beliefs in a just world fail. Journal of Personality Assessment, 89, 126-135.
Quas, J. A., & Lench, H. C. (2007). Arousal at encoding, arousal at retrieval, interviewer support, and children’s memory for a mild stressor. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 21, 289-305.
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.
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.
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.
Quas, J. A., Wallin, A. R., Papini, S., Lench, H. C., & Scullin, M. H. (2005). Suggestibility, social support, and memory for a novel experience in young children. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 91, 315-341.
Lench, H. C. (2004). Anger management: Diagnostic differences and treatment implications. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 23, 512-531.
Haynes, S. N., & Lench, H. C. (2003) Incremental validity of new clinical assessment measures. Psychological Assessment, 15, 456-466.
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.
Book Chapters
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. Click here to be taken to Amazon.com’s website for purchase options. Note: a new browser window will open.
Lench, H.C. (2006). Anger Disorders: Diagnosing unrecognized mood disorders. In T. Plante (Ed.), Mental Disorders of the New Millennium (pp. 53-72). Wesport, Conneticut: Praeger Publishers. Click here to be taken to Amazon.com’s website for purchase options. Note: a new browser window will open.
