Sandra Geiger, MSc

Sandra Geiger is a PhD researcher in the Environmental Psychology Research Group with Mathew White and Sabine Pahl. Before joining the University of Vienna, she completed a research master’s in Social Psychology and Psychological Methods at the University of Amsterdam.

Her work focuses broadly on pro-environmental behavior change, including what people think others think about environmental problems (second-order beliefs), as well as how interventions influence non-targeted behaviors (spillover effects). She is also interested in Bayesian statistics and hopes to contribute to making psychological research more transparent, reproducible, and sustainable.

She is affiliated with the Junior Researcher Programme where she helps to develop the scientific aspects of the program, including organizing a summer school and implementing open science.

 Curriculum Vitae

PDF (November 2023)

 Sandra's recent publications

2022


Psychological Science Accelerator Self-Determination Theory Collaboration. A global experiment on motivating social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2022 May 31;119(22):e2111091119. e2111091119. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2111091119

Geiger SJ. Proenvironmental behaviour spillover. Nature Reviews Psychology. 2022 Apr;1(4):191. 191. Epub 2022 Mar 9. doi: 10.1038/s44159-022-00043-1

Dorison CA, Lerner JS, Heller BH, Rothman A, Kawachi II, Tran U et al. In COVID-19 health messaging, loss framing increases anxiety with little-to-no concomitant benefits: Experimental evidence from 84 countries. Affective Science. 2022;3(3):577–602. doi: 10.1007/s42761-022-00128-3

 Sandra' s recent activities

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Identifying effective social norm messages to strengthen Americans' support for biodiversity policies

Sandra Geiger
Conservation Social Science Conference
Conference, Talk or oral contribution
20.11.2024 - 20.11.2024

Körper, Psyche und der Klimawandel: Mehr wissen statt Halbwissen

Sandra Geiger
Talk or oral contribution
23.10.2024 - 23.10.2024

Misperceiving the conservation consensus

Sandra Geiger
53. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs)
Conference, Talk or oral contribution
24.9.2024 - 24.9.2024

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