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Lameese Eldesouky

  • Position: Assistant Professor of Psychology
  • Department: Department of Psychology
  • Email: [email protected]
Brief Biography

Lameese Eldesouky is an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology at The American University in Cairo. 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, including the American Psychological Association Dissertation Award, Association for Psychological Science Albert Bandura Graduate Research Award, National Institutes of Health Loan Repayment Award in Clinical Research, and Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award T32 Pre-doctoral Fellowship.

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 from the University of California, Berkeley
  • AM in Psychological and Brain Sciences from Washington University in St. Louis
  • PhD in Psychological and Brain Sciences from Washington University in St. Louis
  • Postdoctoral Fellowship in Psychology from Stanford University 

  • 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.

  • Eldesouky, L. & English, T. (2023). Keeping up appearances: The role of motives and utility beliefs in expressive suppression. Motivation and Emotion, 47, 381-398.

  • Eldesouky, L. & English, T. (2022). Always in flux: The role of attentional focus in emotion regulation dynamics. Cognition and Emotion, 36, 345-351

  • Goodman, F.R., Daniel, K.E., Eldesouky, L., Brown, B., & Kneeland, E.T. (2021). How do people with social anxiety disorder cope with daily stressors? Deconstructing emotion regulation flexibility in daily life. Journal of Affective Disorders Reports, 6, 100210. 

  • English, T. & Eldesouky, L. (2020). We’re not alone: Understanding the social consequences of intrinsic emotion regulation. Emotion, 20, 43-47. 

  • Eldesouky, L. & English, T. (2019). Regulating for a reason: Emotion regulation goals are linked to spontaneous strategy use. Journal of Personality, 87, 948-961.

  • Eldesouky, L. & English, T. (2019). Individual differences in emotion regulation goals: Does personality predict the reasons why people regulate their emotions? Journal of Personality, 87, 750-766.