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


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

2021


Geiger S, Brick C, Nalborczyk L, Bosshard A, Jostmann NB. More green than gray? Toward a sustainable overview of environmental spillover effects: A Bayesian meta-analysis. Journal of Environmental Psychology. 2021 Dec 13;78:101694. doi: 10.1016/j.jenvp.2021.101694

Ruggeri K, Većkalov B, Bojanić L, Andersen TL, Ashcroft-Jones S, Ayacaxli N et al. The general fault in our fault lines. Nature Human Behaviour. 2021 Oct;5(10):1369-1380. Epub 2021 Apr 22. doi: 10.1038/s41562-021-01092-x

 Sandra' s recent activities

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Misperceiving the conservation consensus

Sandra Geiger
Be.Hive
Conference, Talk or oral contribution
11.6.2024 - 11.6.2024

The role of pluralistic ignorance in addressing the planetary crisis

Sandra Geiger
Talk or oral contribution
25.5.2024 - 25.5.2024

The role of pluralistic ignorance in addressing the planetary crisis

Sandra Geiger
Talk or oral contribution
18.5.2024 - 18.5.2024

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