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Regina Miranda, Ph.D.

Dr. Miranda's 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. Our 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.


Representative Publications

Miranda, R., Wheeler, A., Polanco-Roman, L., & Marroquin, B. (2017). The Future-Oriented Repetitive Thought Scale: A measure of repetitive thinking about the future. Journal of Affective Disorders, 207, 336-345.

Miranda, R., Ortin, A., Scott, M., & Shaffer, D. (2014). Characteristics of suicidal ideation that predict the transition to future suicide attempts in adolescents. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 55, 1288-1296. 

Miranda, R., Ortin, A., Polanco-Roman, L., & Valderrama, J. (2017).  Understanding adolescent suicide.  In N. Cohen (Ed.), Public health persectives on depressive disorders (pp. 211-238). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Miranda, R., Andersen, S.M., & Edwards, T. (2012). The relational self and pre-existing depression: Implicit activation of significant-other representations exacerbates dysphoria and evokes rejection in the working self-concept. Self and Identity, 12, 39-57.

Miranda, R., & Nolen-Hoeksema, S. (2007).  Brooding and reflection: Rumination predicts suicidal ideation at one-year follow up in a community sample.  Behaviour Research and Therapy, 45, 3088-3095.

 

For more information on Dr. Miranda's lab, please click here.