- Department of Psychology; Clinical Psychology
- Email: reina_kiefer@uri.edu
Major Professor: Nicole H. Weiss, Ph.D.
Lab: STRESS Lab
Biography
Reina is a doctoral candidate in her fourth year of the Clinical Psychology Ph.D. program at the University of Rhode Island, with a focus in Research Methodology. Prior to her time at URI, Reina worked as a clinical research assistant at the Rhode Island Hospital Adult Partial Hospitalization Program. She received her B.A. in psychology and a B.S. in dance from Skidmore College in 2017 and her M.A. in psychology from the University of Rhode Island in 2021.
Research
Reina’s research interests focus on unwanted sexual experiences across the lifespan, most notably college campus sexual assault. She is particularly interested in peritraumatic contextual factors that may increase risk for victimization and revictimization, such as risk perception and alcohol intoxication. Reina is currently completing an NIH F31 examining the effects of negative/positive emotion and acute alcohol intoxication on sexual assault risk perception. Another line of her research includes studying factors that confer risk/resilience for the development and maintenance of PTSD, with an emphasis on emotion regulation.