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Regina Miranda

TitleDr.
Faculty RankProfessor
InstitutionHunter College, CUNY
DepartmentPsychology
AddressDepartment of Psychology
695 Park Ave., Room 611HN
New York NY 10065
Phone(212) 772-4809
Fax(212) 772-5620
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    My research seeks to understand why young people think about and attempt suicide in a way that can inform assessment, treatment, and prevention of suicide risk. My lab's program of research has four broad goals: 1) to study the link between different forms of repetitive thinking, hopelessness, and suicidal ideation; 2) to understand what young people actually think about when they think about suicide, the form that these thoughts take, and whether there are subtypes of suicidal thoughts that can be used to predict who is likely to make a future suicide attempt; 3) to understand the interplay between culture and cognition in explaining risk for suicidal ideation and attempts; and 4) to identify laboratory-based methods of shifting the hopelessness-related cognitions that give rise to suicidal ideation.

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    T34MH016705     (MIRANDA, REGINA)Aug 1, 1981 - Jun 30, 2011
    NIH
    Hunter College COR Program
    Role: Principal Investigator
    R25GM060665     (ORTIZ, BENJAMIN D.,)Mar 1, 2000 - May 31, 2023
    NIH
    RISE Program at Hunter College CUNY
    Role: Co-Principal Investigator
    SC1MH091873     (MIRANDA, REGINA)Feb 5, 2010 - Mar 31, 2022
    NIH
    Persistent versus brief suicidal ideation subtypes in risk for adolescent suicide attempts
    Role: Principal Investigator
    R25GM097634     (QUINONES-JENAB, VANYA)Sep 30, 2010 - Aug 31, 2015
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    BP-ENDURE at Hunter
    Role: Co-Principal Investigator
    R25NS080686     (SCHAFE, GLENN E)Sep 30, 2010 - Aug 31, 2025
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    BP-ENDURE at Hunter and NYU
    Role: Co-Principal Investigator
    RF1MH120846     (MIRANDA, REGINA)Jul 22, 2019 - Jun 30, 2023
    NIH
    Multimethod measurement of proximal risk for persistent suicide ideation and future attempts among adolescents
    Role: Principal Investigator

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    1. Fernandes SN, Zuckerman E, Miranda R, Baroni A. When Night Falls Fast: Sleep and Suicidal Behavior Among Adolescents and Young Adults. Psychiatr Clin North Am. 2024 Mar; 47(1):273-286. PMID: 38302212.
      Citations:    Fields:    Translation:Humans
    2. Matuza T, Shikh A, Sullivan SR, Wheeler A, Miranda R. Induced optimism to lessen hopelessness-related cognitions among young adults at risk for suicidal thoughts and behavior. J Affect Disord Rep. 2023 Dec; 14. PMID: 38125966.
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    3. Mitchell E, Rosario-Williams B, Yeshchenko I, Miranda R. Cognitive emotion regulation strategies among emerging adults with different self-harm histories. J Affect Disord Rep. 2023 Dec; 14. PMID: 38047209.
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    4. Zuckerman E, Fernandes SN, Sullivan SR, Ortin-Peralta A, Jeglic E, Miranda R, Baroni A. Sleep quality and in-person versus online social interaction during the early COVID-19 pandemic lockdown: Impact on affect and interpersonal needs among young adults. Psychiatry Res Commun. 2023 Sep; 3(3). PMID: 37736570.
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    5. Ortin-Peralta A, Sheftall AH, Osborn A, Miranda R. Severity and Transition of Suicidal Behaviors in Childhood: Sex, Racial, and Ethnic Differences in the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study. J Adolesc Health. 2023 10; 73(4):724-730. PMID: 37389520.
      Citations: 1     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    6. Miranda R, Ortin-Peralta A, Macrynikola N, Nahum C, Ma?an? J, Rombola C, Runes S, Waseem M. Content and Process of Adolescent Suicide Ideation: Implications for Risk Assessment. Res Child Adolesc Psychopathol. 2023 11; 51(11):1657-1668. PMID: 37318739.
      Citations:    Fields:    Translation:Humans
    7. Miranda R, Wheeler A, Chapman JE, Ortin-Peralta A, Ma?an? J, Rosario-Williams B, Andersen S. Future-oriented repetitive thought, depressive symptoms, and suicide ideation severity: Role of future-event fluency and depressive predictive certainty. J Affect Disord. 2023 08 15; 335:401-409. PMID: 37217102.
      Citations: 2     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    8. Rosario-Williams B, Miranda R. Prospective Relation between Ruminative Subtypes and Suicide Ideation: Moderating Role of Problem Solving. Cognit Ther Res. 2023 Aug; 47(4):574-586. PMID: 38152613.
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    9. Molock SD, Boyd RC, Alvarez K, Cha C, Denton EG, Glenn CR, Katz CC, Mueller AS, Meca A, Meza JI, Miranda R, Ortin-Peralta A, Polanco-Roman L, Singer JB, Zullo L, Miller AB. Culturally responsive assessment of suicidal thoughts and behaviors in youth of color. Am Psychol. 2023 10; 78(7):842-855. PMID: 36913280.
      Citations: 3     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    10. Xu M, Rosario-Williams B, Kline EA, Miranda R. Social cognitive mechanisms between psychological maltreatment and adolescent suicide ideation: Race/ethnicity and gender as moderators. Psychol Violence. 2022 Nov; 12(6):393-402. PMID: 38044964.
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    11. Rosario-Williams B, Rombola C, Miranda R. Being certain that negative events will happen or that positive events will not happen: Depressive predictive certainty and change in suicide ideation over time. Suicide Life Threat Behav. 2021 12; 51(6):1106-1116. PMID: 34309062.
      Citations: 1     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    12. Polanco-Roman L, Miranda R, Hien D, Anglin DM. Racial/ethnic discrimination as race-based trauma and suicide-related risk in racial/ethnic minority young adults: The explanatory roles of stress sensitivity and dissociation. Psychol Trauma. 2021 Oct; 13(7):759-767. PMID: 34264740.
      Citations: 3     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    13. Polanco-Roman L, Miranda R. A cycle of exclusion that impedes suicide research among racial and ethnic minority youth. Suicide Life Threat Behav. 2022 02; 52(1):171-174. PMID: 33811663.
      Citations: 3     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    14. Rosario-Williams B, Kaur S, Miranda R. Examining decentering as a moderator in the relation between non-suicidal self-injury and suicide ideation via cognitive-affective factors. Suicide Life Threat Behav. 2021 08; 51(4):741-754. PMID: 33724535.
      Citations: 2     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    15. Kline EA, Ortin-Peralta A, Polanco-Roman L, Miranda R. Association Between Exposure to Suicidal Behaviors and Suicide Attempts Among Adolescents: The Moderating Role of Prior Psychiatric Disorders. Child Psychiatry Hum Dev. 2022 04; 53(2):365-374. PMID: 33569742.
      Citations: 1     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    16. Fernandes SN, Zuckerman E, Miranda R, Baroni A. When Night Falls Fast: Sleep and Suicidal Behavior Among Adolescents and Young Adults. Child Adolesc Psychiatr Clin N Am. 2021 01; 30(1):269-282. PMID: 33223066.
      Citations: 4     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    17. Valderrama J, Macrynikola N, Miranda R. Early Life Trauma, Suicide Ideation, and Suicide Attempts: The Role of Rumination and Impulsivity. Arch Suicide Res. 2022 Apr-Jun; 26(2):731-747. PMID: 33017263.
      Citations: 1     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    18. Ortin A, Miranda R. Age at menarche and onset of suicide ideation among high-risk girls. Psychiatry Res. 2020 08; 290:113059. PMID: 32470718.
      Citations: 2     Fields:    
    19. Rosario-Williams B, Rowe-Harriott S, Ray M, Jeglic E, Miranda R. Factors precipitating suicide attempts vary across race. J Am Coll Health. 2022 Feb-Mar; 70(2):568-574. PMID: 32407183.
      Citations: 2     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    20. Polanco-Roman L, Ahmad K, Tigershtrom A, Jacobson C, Miranda R. Emotion expressivity, suicidal ideation, and explanatory factors: Differences by Asian American subgroups compared with White emerging adults. Cultur Divers Ethnic Minor Psychol. 2024 Jan; 30(1):11-21. PMID: 31868380.
      Citations:    Fields:    Translation:Humans
    21. Xu M, Macrynikola N, Waseem M, Miranda R. Racial and Ethnic Differences in Bullying: Review and Implications for Intervention. Aggress Violent Behav. 2020 Jan-Feb; 50. PMID: 32863731.
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    22. Ortin A, Elkington KS, Eisenberg R, Miranda R, Canino G, Bird HR, Duarte CS. Suicide Attempts and Course of Suicidal Ideation among Puerto Rican Early Adolescents. J Abnorm Child Psychol. 2019 10; 47(10):1723-1734. PMID: 31065859.
      Citations: 2     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    23. Polanco-Roman L, Anglin DM, Miranda R, Jeglic EL. Racial/Ethnic Discrimination and Suicidal Ideation in Emerging Adults: The Role of Traumatic Stress and Depressive Symptoms Varies by Gender not Race/Ethnicity. J Youth Adolesc. 2019 Oct; 48(10):2023-2037. PMID: 31541372.
      Citations: 18     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    24. Whisman MA, Miranda R, Fresco DM, Heimberg RG, Jeglic EL, Weinstock LM. Measurement Invariance of the Ruminative Responses Scale Across Gender. Assessment. 2020 04; 27(3):508-517. PMID: 29809071.
      Citations: 3     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    25. Ortin A, Miranda R, Polanco-Roman L, Shaffer D. Parent-Adolescent Acculturation Gap and Suicidal Ideation among Adolescents from an Emergency Department. Arch Suicide Res. 2017 Oct-Dec; 22(4):529-541. PMID: 28934077.
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    26. Lane R, Miranda R. The effects of familial acculturative stress and hopelessness on suicidal ideation by immigration status among college students. J Am Coll Health. 2018 Feb-Mar; 66(2):76-86. PMID: 28922098.
      Citations: 1     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    27. Macrynikola N, Miranda R, Soffer A. Social connectedness, stressful life events, and self-injurious thoughts and behaviors among young adults. Compr Psychiatry. 2018 01; 80:140-149. PMID: 29091780.
      Citations: 11     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    28. Valderrama J, Miranda R. Early life stress predicts negative urgency through brooding, depending on 5-HTTLPR genotype: A pilot study with 6-month follow-up examining suicide ideation. Psychiatry Res. 2017 12; 258:481-487. PMID: 28890225.
      Citations: 5     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    29. Polanco-Roman L, Moore A, Tsypes A, Jacobson C, Miranda R. Emotion Reactivity, Comfort Expressing Emotions, and Future Suicidal Ideation in Emerging Adults. J Clin Psychol. 2018 Jan; 74(1):123-135. PMID: 28493550.
      Citations: 7     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    30. Macrynikola N, Goklani S, Slotnick J, Miranda R. Positive future-oriented fantasies and depressive symptoms: Indirect relationship through brooding. Conscious Cogn. 2017 05; 51:1-9. PMID: 28273521.
      Citations: 2     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    31. Miranda R, Weierich M, Khait V, Jurska J, Andersen SM. Induced optimism as mental rehearsal to decrease depressive predictive certainty. Behav Res Ther. 2017 03; 90:1-8. PMID: 27918916.
      Citations: 4     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    32. Miranda R, Wheeler A, Polanco-Roman L, Marroqu?n B. The future-oriented repetitive thought (FoRT) scale: A measure of repetitive thinking about the future. J Affect Disord. 2017 Jan 01; 207:336-345. PMID: 27743536.
      Citations: 4     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    33. Lane R, Cheref S, Miranda R. Ethnic Differences in Suicidal Ideation and its Correlates among South Asian American Emerging Adults. Asian Am J Psychol. 2016 Jun; 7(2):120-128. PMID: 27525054.
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    34. Polanco-Roman L, Gomez J, Miranda R, Jeglic E. Stress-Related Symptoms and Suicidal Ideation: The Roles of Rumination and Depressive Symptoms Vary by Gender. Cognit Ther Res. 2016 Oct; 40(5):606-616. PMID: 27695146.
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    35. Valderrama J, Miranda R, Jeglic E. Ruminative subtypes and impulsivity in risk for suicidal behavior. Psychiatry Res. 2016 Feb 28; 236:15-21. PMID: 26791398.
      Citations: 8     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    36. Qui?ones V, Jurska J, Fener E, Miranda R. Active and passive problem solving: moderating role in the relation between depressive symptoms and future suicidal ideation varies by suicide attempt history. J Clin Psychol. 2015 Apr; 71(4):402-12. PMID: 25760651.
      Citations: 6     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    37. Miranda R, Soffer A, Polanco-Roman L, Wheeler A, Moore A. Mental Health Treatment Barriers Among Racial/Ethnic Minority Versus White Young Adults 6 Months After Intake at a College Counseling Center. J Am Coll Health. 2015; 63(5):291-8. PMID: 25692661.
      Citations: 12     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    38. Polanco-Roman L, Tsypes A, Soffer A, Miranda R. Ethnic differences in prevalence and correlates of self-harm behaviors in a treatment-seeking sample of emerging adults. Psychiatry Res. 2014 Dec 30; 220(3):927-34. PMID: 25446462.
      Citations: 5     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    39. Polanco-Roman L, Jurska J, Qui?ones V, Miranda R. Brooding, Reflection, and Distraction: Relation to Non-Suicidal Self-Injury versus Suicide Attempts. Arch Suicide Res. 2015; 19(3):350-65. PMID: 25517765.
      Citations: 17     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    40. Jacobson C, Hill R, Pettit JW, Miranda R. The Measure of Verbally Expressed Emotion: Development and factor structure of a scale designed to assess comfort expressing feelings to others. J Psychopathol Behav Assess. 2015 Jun; 37(2):358-369. PMID: 29805198.
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    41. Cheref S, Lane R, Polanco-Roman L, Gadol E, Miranda R. Suicidal ideation among racial/ethnic minorities: moderating effects of rumination and depressive symptoms. Cultur Divers Ethnic Minor Psychol. 2015 Jan; 21(1):31-40. PMID: 25111544.
      Citations: 12     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    42. Miranda R, Ortin A, Scott M, Shaffer D. Characteristics of suicidal ideation that predict the transition to future suicide attempts in adolescents. J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 2014 Nov; 55(11):1288-96. PMID: 24827817.
      Citations: 44     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    43. Miranda R, Shaffer D. Understanding the suicidal moment in adolescence. Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2013 Nov; 1304:14-21. PMID: 24138124.
      Citations: 6     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    44. Miranda R, Polanco-Roman L, Tsypes A, Valderrama J. Perceived discrimination, ruminative subtypes, and risk for depressive symptoms in emerging adulthood. Cultur Divers Ethnic Minor Psychol. 2013 Oct; 19(4):395-403. PMID: 24188536.
      Citations: 19     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    45. Miranda R, De Jaegere E, Restifo K, Shaffer D. Longitudinal follow-up study of adolescents who report a suicide attempt: aspects of suicidal behavior that increase risk of a future attempt. Depress Anxiety. 2014 Jan; 31(1):19-26. PMID: 24105789.
      Citations: 14     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    46. Miranda R, Valderrama J, Tsypes A, Gadol E, Gallagher M. Cognitive inflexibility and suicidal ideation: mediating role of brooding and hopelessness. Psychiatry Res. 2013 Nov 30; 210(1):174-81. PMID: 23528518.
      Citations: 26     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    47. Krajniak M, Miranda R, Wheeler A. Rumination and pessimistic certainty as mediators of the relation between lifetime suicide attempt history and future suicidal ideation. Arch Suicide Res. 2013; 17(3):196-211. PMID: 23889570.
      Citations: 14     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    48. Marganska A, Gallagher M, Miranda R. Adult attachment, emotion dysregulation, and symptoms of depression and generalized anxiety disorder. Am J Orthopsychiatry. 2013 Jan; 83(1):131-41. PMID: 23330631.
      Citations: 35     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    49. Polanco-Roman L, Miranda R. Culturally related stress, hopelessness, and vulnerability to depressive symptoms and suicidal ideation in emerging adulthood. Behav Ther. 2013 Mar; 44(1):75-87. PMID: 23312428.
      Citations: 30     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    50. Linda WP, Marroqu?n B, Miranda R. Active and passive problem solving as moderators of the relation between negative life event stress and suicidal ideation among suicide attempters and non-attempters. Arch Suicide Res. 2012; 16(3):183-97. PMID: 22852781.
      Citations: 14     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    51. Miranda R, Gallagher M, Bauchner B, Vaysman R, Marroqu?n B. Cognitive inflexibility as a prospective predictor of suicidal ideation among young adults with a suicide attempt history. Depress Anxiety. 2012 Mar; 29(3):180-6. PMID: 22147587.
      Citations: 42     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    52. Gomez J, Miranda R, Polanco L. Acculturative stress, perceived discrimination, and vulnerability to suicide attempts among emerging adults. J Youth Adolesc. 2011 Nov; 40(11):1465-76. PMID: 21717234.
      Citations: 41     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    53. Surrence K, Miranda R, Marroqu?n BM, Chan S. Brooding and reflective rumination among suicide attempters: cognitive vulnerability to suicidal ideation. Behav Res Ther. 2009 Sep; 47(9):803-8. PMID: 19577225.
      Citations: 38     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    54. Chan S, Miranda R, Surrence K. Subtypes of rumination in the relationship between negative life events and suicidal ideation. Arch Suicide Res. 2009; 13(2):123-35. PMID: 19363749.
      Citations: 31     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    55. Miranda R, Fontes M, Marroqu?n B. Cognitive content-specificity in future expectancies: role of hopelessness and intolerance of uncertainty in depression and GAD symptoms. Behav Res Ther. 2008 Oct; 46(10):1151-9. PMID: 18687420.
      Citations: 23     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    56. Miranda R, Scott M, Hicks R, Wilcox HC, Harris Munfakh JL, Shaffer D. Suicide attempt characteristics, diagnoses, and future attempts: comparing multiple attempters to single attempters and ideators. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2008 Jan; 47(1):32-40. PMID: 18174823.
      Citations: 57     Fields:    Translation:HumansPHPublic Health
    57. Miranda R, Nolen-Hoeksema S. Brooding and reflection: rumination predicts suicidal ideation at 1-year follow-up in a community sample. Behav Res Ther. 2007 Dec; 45(12):3088-95. PMID: 17825248.
      Citations: 73     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    58. Cloitre M, Stovall-McClough KC, Miranda R, Chemtob CM. Therapeutic alliance, negative mood regulation, and treatment outcome in child abuse-related posttraumatic stress disorder. J Consult Clin Psychol. 2004 Jun; 72(3):411-6. PMID: 15279525.
      Citations: 53     Fields:    Translation:HumansCTClinical Trials
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