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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.

Price, P.C., Smith, A.R., & Lench, H.C. (2006). Effects of target group size on risk judgments and comparative optimism: The more, the riskier. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 90, 382-398.

Quas, J.A., & Lench, H.C. (2007). The effects of emotion, physiological reactivity, and context on children's memory. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 21, 289-305.

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., 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.

Heather Lench, Ph.D.