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Heather C. Lench publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Psychology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Heather C. Lench sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 72 publications — 5th percentile

5% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 705 publications or more.

Heather C. Lench D-index placement in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Psychology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Heather C. Lench sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 31 D-Index — 3rd percentile

3% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

Overview

Heather C. Lench is a researcher affiliated with Texas A&M University in the United States. Their primary field of study is psychology, with a focus on social psychology, cognitive neuroscience, sociology and political science, experimental and cognitive psychology, and clinical psychology. The central topics in their work include emotions and moral behavior, optimism, hope and well-being, media influence and health, cultural differences and values, social and intergroup psychology, mind wandering and attention, and sleep and wakefulness research.

Lench's recent research publications include:

  • Anger has benefits for attaining goals. (2023, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology)
  • Optimistic expectations have benefits for effort and emotion with little cost. (2021, Emotion)
  • Remembering facts versus feelings in the wake of political events. (2021, Cognition & Emotion)
  • Experimental elicitations of awe: a meta-analysis. (2022, Cognition & Emotion)
  • You shall go forth with joy: Religion and aspirational judgments about emotion. (2021, Psychology of Religion and Spirituality)

Frequent coauthors of Heather C. Lench include Linda J. Levine, Noah T. Reed, Kaitlyn A. Kaiser, Sophia G. North, and Steven Carlson. These collaborations have resulted in multiple joint publications.

The most common publication venues for Lench's work are:

  • Cognition & Emotion
  • Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
  • Motivation and Emotion
  • Emotion
  • Medical Education Online

The range of journals reflects a multidisciplinary approach within psychology and related fields, combining experimental methods with applied topics in emotion and cognition.

Best Publications

  • Discrete emotions predict changes in cognition, judgment, experience, behavior, and physiology: a meta-analysis of experimental emotion elicitations

    Heather C. Lench;Sarah A. Flores;Shane W. Bench

  • On the function of boredom.

    Shane W. Bench;Heather C. Lench

  • Incremental validity of new clinical assessment measures.

    Stephen N. Haynes;Heather C. Lench

  • Metacognitive emotion regulation: Children's awareness that changing thoughts and goals can alleviate negative emotions.

    Elizabeth L. Davis;Linda J. Levine;Heather C. Lench;Jodi A. Quas

  • Boredom as a seeking state: Boredom prompts the pursuit of novel (even negative) experiences

    Shane W Bench;Heather C Lench

  • A meta-analysis of the facial feedback literature: Effects of facial feedback on emotional experience are small and variable.

    Nicholas A. Coles;Jeff T. Larsen;Heather C. Lench

  • Functions of remembering and misremembering emotion

    Linda J. Levine;Heather C. Lench;Martin A. Safer

  • Gender Gaps in Overestimation of Math Performance

    Shane W. Bench;Heather C. Lench;Jeffrey Liew;Kathi Miner

  • Effects of fear on risk and control judgements and memory: Implications for health promotion messages

    Heather C. Lench;Linda J. Levine

  • Arousal at encoding, arousal at retrieval, interviewer support, and children's memory for a mild stressor

    Jodi A. Quas;Heather C. Lench

  • Exploring the Toolkit of Emotion: What Do Sadness and Anger Do for Us?

    Heather C. Lench;Thomas P. Tibbett;Shane W. Bench

  • Belief in an Unjust World: When Beliefs in a Just World Fail

    Heather C. Lench;Esther S. Chang

  • Anger Management: Diagnostic Differences and Treatment Implications

    Heather C. Lench

  • Accuracy and artifact: reexamining the intensity bias in affective forecasting.

    Linda J. Levine;Heather C. Lench;Robin L. Kaplan;Martin A. Safer

  • Goals and responses to failure: Knowing when to hold them and when to fold them

    Heather C. Lench;Linda J. Levine

  • Automatic optimism: the affective basis of judgments about the likelihood of future events.

    Heather C. Lench

  • Automatic optimism: Biased use of base rate information for positive and negative events

    Heather C. Lench;Peter H. Ditto

  • A Functionalist Manifesto: Goal-Related Emotions From an Evolutionary Perspective

    Heather C. Lench;Shane W. Bench;Kathleen E. Darbor;Melody Moore

  • Avoidance temperament and social-evaluative threat in college students' math performance: a mediation model of math and test anxiety

    Jeffrey Liew;Heather C Lench;Grace Kao;Yu-Chen Yeh

  • Remembering and Misremembering Emotions.

    Linda J. Levine;Martin A. Safer;Heather C. Lench

  • “Accuracy and artifact: Reexamining the intensity bias in affective forecasting”: Correction to Levine et al. (2012).

    Linda J. Levine;Heather C. Lench;Robin L. Kaplan;Martin A. Safer

Frequent Co-Authors

Linda J. Levine
Linda J. Levine University of California, Irvine
Martin A. Safer
Martin A. Safer Catholic University of America
Jodi A. Quas
Jodi A. Quas University of California, Irvine
Jeffrey Liew
Jeffrey Liew Texas A&M University
Joshua A. Hicks
Joshua A. Hicks Texas A&M University
Douglas W. Woods
Douglas W. Woods Marquette University
Craig E.L. Stark
Craig E.L. Stark University of California, Irvine
Jeff T. Larsen
Jeff T. Larsen University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Oi-Man Kwok
Oi-Man Kwok Texas A&M University
Elizabeth F. Loftus
Elizabeth F. Loftus University of California, Irvine

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