Search Results - "Lench, Heather C."

A Meta-Analysis of the Facial Feedback Literature: Effects of Facial Feedback on Emotional Experience Are Small and Variable by Coles, Nicholas A., Larsen, Jeff T., Lench, Heather C.

“…The facial feedback hypothesis suggests that an individual's experience of emotion is influenced by feedback from their facial movements. To evaluate the…”
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Discrete Emotions Predict Changes in Cognition, Judgment, Experience, Behavior, and Physiology: A Meta-Analysis of Experimental Emotion Elicitations by Lench, Heather C., Flores, Sarah A., Bench, Shane W.

“…Our purpose in the present meta-analysis was to examine the extent to which discrete emotions elicit changes in cognition, judgment, experience, behavior, and…”
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On the function of boredom by Bench, Shane W, Lench, Heather C

“…Boredom is frequently considered inconsequential and has received relatively little research attention. We argue that boredom has important implications for…”
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Do liberals value emotion more than conservatives? Political partisanship and Lay beliefs about the functionality of emotion by Choi, Minyoung, Karnaze, Melissa M., Lench, Heather C., Levine, Linda J.

“…Relying on feelings to guide thoughts and plans may be functional from the perspective of the individual but threaten the cohesion of social groups. Thus,…”
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The Struggle to Entertain Yourself: Consequences of the Internal Stimulation Factor of Boredom Proneness during Pandemic Lockdown by Dang, Van, Lench, Heather C

“…Boredom is a ubiquitous human experience that most people try to avoid feeling. People who are prone to boredom experience negative consequences. This study…”
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Medical residency match applicants undervalue factors that predict stress and burnout by Kaiser, Kaitlyn A., Lench, Heather C., Levine, Linda J.

“…In the medical residency match process, applicants' ranking decisions are influenced by multiple factors related to training, geography, and lifestyle…”
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Do People Eat the Pain Away? The Effects of Acute Physical Pain on Subsequent Consumption of Sweet-Tasting Food by Darbor, Kathleen E, Lench, Heather C, Carter-Sowell, Adrienne R

“…Sweet tasting foods have been found to have an analgesic effect. Therefore people might consume more sweet-tasting food when they feel pain. In Study 1,…”
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Correction: Do People Eat the Pain Away? The Effects of Acute Physical Pain on Subsequent Consumption of Sweet-Tasting Food by Darbor, Kathleen E, Lench, Heather C, Carter-Sowell, Adrienne R

“…[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0166931.]…”
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Goals and responses to failure: Knowing when to hold them and when to fold them by Lench, Heather C., Levine, Linda J.

“…The ability to disengage from hopeless situations is critical to goal attainment and effective self-regulation. Two experiments investigated the effects of…”
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Anger Has Benefits for Attaining Goals by Lench, Heather C., Reed, Noah T., George, Tiffany, Kaiser, Kaitlyn A., North, Sophia G.

“…Functional accounts of emotion have guided research for decades, with the core assumption that emotions are functional-they improve outcomes for people. Based…”
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Voter emotional responses and voting behaviour in the 2020 US presidential election by Lench, Heather C, Fernandez, Leslie, Reed, Noah, Raibley, Emily, Levine, Linda J, Salsedo, Kiki

“…Political polarisation in the United States offers opportunities to explore how beliefs about candidates - that they could save or destroy American society -…”
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Experimental elicitations of awe: a meta-analysis by Pérez, Kenneth A., Lench, Heather C., Thompson, Christopher G., North, Sophia

“…A meta-analytic review of studies that experimentally elicited awe and compared the emotion to other conditions (84; 487 effects; 17,801 participants) examined…”
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Boredom as a Seeking State: Boredom Prompts the Pursuit of Novel (Even Negative) Experiences by Bench, Shane W, Lench, Heather C

“…Building on functional models of emotion, we propose that boredom creates a seeking state that prompts people to explore new experiences, even if those…”
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When and Why People Misestimate Future Feelings: Identifying Strengths and Weaknesses in Affective Forecasting by Lench, Heather C., Levine, Linda J., Perez, Kenneth, Carpenter, Zari Koelbel, Carlson, Steven J., Bench, Shane W., Wan, Yidou

“…People try to make decisions that will improve their lives and make them happy, and to do so, they rely on affective forecasts-predictions about how future…”
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Functional perspectives on emotion, behavior, and cognition by Lench, Heather C, Darbor, Kathleen E, Berg, Logan A

“…This Editorial reviews the challenges and advantages posed by a functional perspective on the relationships among emotion, behavior, and cognition. We identify…”
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Automatic Optimism: The Affective Basis of Judgments About the Likelihood of Future Events by Lench, Heather C

“…People generally judge that the future will be consistent with their desires, but the reason for this desirability bias is unclear. This investigation examined…”
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Gender Gaps in Overestimation of Math Performance by Bench, Shane W., Lench, Heather C., Liew, Jeffrey, Miner, Kathi, Flores, Sarah A.

“…In the United States, men are more likely to pursue math-intense STEM courses and careers than women. This investigation explored whether positivity bias in…”
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Exploring the Toolkit of Emotion: What Do Sadness and Anger Do for Us? by Lench, Heather C., Tibbett, Thomas P., Bench, Shane W.

“…What do negative emotions do for people? We present a framework that defines the function of emotions as the degree to which discrete emotions result in better…”
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Forgetting Feelings: Opposite Biases in Reports of the Intensity of Past Emotion and Mood by Kaplan, Robin L., Levine, Linda J., Lench, Heather C., Safer, Martin A.

“…Memory for feelings is subject to fading and bias over time. In 2 studies, the authors examined whether the magnitude and direction of bias depend on the type…”
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Changes in Subjective Well-Being Following the U.S. Presidential Election of 2016 by Lench, Heather C, Levine, Linda J, Perez, Kenneth A, Carpenter, Zari Koelbel, Carlson, Steven J, Tibbett, Tom

“…This investigation examined predictors of changes over time in subjective well-being (SWB) after the 2016 United States presidential election. Two indicators…”
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