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Lameese Eldesouky

Brief Biography

Lameese Eldesouky is an associate professor in the Department of Psychology at The American University in Cairo (AUC). Her specialization is in social and personality psychology. She received her BA in psychology from the University of California, Berkeley and her AM and PhD in social/personality psychology from Washington University in St. Louis. She completed a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship at Stanford University in the Department of Psychology. She has received notable awards for her research, such as the American Psychological Association Dissertation Award, Association for Psychological Science Albert Bandura Graduate Research Award and the SAGE Early Career Trajectory Award from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology.

Research Interest
  • The factors that predict how people regulate their emotions
  • The consequences of emotion regulation for social functioning and health
  • How to effectively measure emotion regulation
Education
  • BA in psychology, University of California, Berkeley
  • AM in psychological and brain sciences, Washington University in St. Louis
  • PhD in psychological and brain sciences, Washington University in St. Louis
  • Postdoctoral fellowship in psychology, Stanford University 

  • Eldesouky, L. & Kenyon Brown, C. (in press). Regulating for others’ sake: An integrative framework of    prosocial emotion regulation. Perspectives on Psychological Science. 

  • Eldesouky, L., Rum, R., El-Nasharty, K., El-Garhy, Y., & Goodman, F.R. (2026). Individual differences in religious emotion regulation in daily life. Affective Science, 7, 123-134.

  • Gligorić, V., Jost, J.T., Mićanović I., Tase, O., Do Bú, E.A.,…., Eldesouky, L.,….., Schaaf, J. (2025). Macro-economic conditions and national stereotypes in 45 non-Western countries. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 17, 1-18. 

  • Eldesouky, L., Gross, J.J., & English, T. (2025). Trait emotion regulation similarity and well-being. Scientific Reports, 15, 28820.

  • Eldesouky, L. & Gross, J.J. (2024). Using expressive writing to improve cancer caregiver and patient health: A randomized controlled feasibility trial. European Journal of Oncology Nursing, 70, 102578.

  • Eldesouky L., Goldenberg, A., & Ellis, K. (2024). Loneliness and emotion regulation in daily life. Personality and Individual Differences, 221, 112566.

  • Eldesouky, L. & English, T. (2023). The impact of suppressing and amplifying expressions on personality judgments. Journal of Research in Personality, 105, 104399.

  • Eldesouky, L., Ellis, K., Goodman, F.R., & Khadr, Z. (2023). Daily emotion regulation and emotional well-being: A replication and extension in Egypt. Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology, 4, 100106.