Nathaniel Geiger

Biographic Data

ID178252
NAMENathaniel Geiger
GIVEN NAMESNathaniel
FAMILY NAMEGeiger
SIGNATUREGEIGER N
AFFILIATIONSIndiana University Bloomington
ORCID0000-0003-1724-1081
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS15
TOTAL CITATIONS14
AUTHOR COUNT15
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2012
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX2

  • A Waste of Time? Partisan Deliberative Bias as a Barrier to Political Crosstalk

    Open AccessB Mclaughlin, Nathaniel Geiger et al.ARTICLEPolitical Behavior2025References: 71

    Americans are increasingly unwilling to talk about politics with out-partisans. One potential barrier to such cross-cutting partisan conversations may be partisans’ tendency to stereotype out-partisans as lacking the deliberative traits necessary to have a productive conversation (i.e., partisan deliberative bias). Here, three studies examine the presence of partisan deliberative bias, its relationship to cross-cutting political talk, and potenti…

  • Experience Matters

    Open AccessNathaniel Geiger, Janet K Swim et al.ARTICLESocial Psychological and…2023

    Interpersonal conversation about civic issues lays groundwork for cooperation and collective action, yet such conversation is uncommon. Across three studies (total N = 2,066), we find that (a) hesitation to discuss a civic topic is predicted by forecasted discomfort about such conversations (Study 1), (b) individuals tend to overestimate discomfort in such future civic conversations (Study 1), (c) forecasted discomfort is lower for those with gre…

  • Americans experience a false social reality by underestimating popular climate policy support by nearly half

    Open AccessGregg Sparkman, Nathaniel Geiger et al.ARTICLENature Communications2022

    Pluralistic ignorance—a shared misperception of how others think or behave—poses a challenge to collective action on problems like climate change. Using a representative sample of Americans ( N = 6119), we examine whether Americans accurately perceive national concern about climate change and support for mitigating policies. We find a form of pluralistic ignorance that we describe as a false social reality : a near universal perception of public …

  • Not out of MY bank account! Science messaging when climate change policies carry personal financial costs

    Janet K Swim, Nathaniel Geiger et al.ARTICLEThinking & Reasoning2022

    We suggest that policies will be less popular when individuals personally have to pay for them rather than when others have to pay (i.e., a Not Out of My Bank Account or NOMBA effect). Dual process models of persuasion suggest that personally having to pay would motivate scrutiny of persuasive messages making it essential to use effective science communication tactics when using climate science to support climate change policies. A pilot experime…

  • Do People Actually “Listen to the Experts”? A Cautionary Note on Assuming Expert Credibility and Persuasiveness on Public Health Policy Advocacy

    Nathaniel GeigerARTICLEHealth Communication2022

    The present work empirically explores whether experts are trusted more or more persuasive than an “average Joe” when engaging in policy advocacy on public health topics. I conducted a 2 (topic: climate change vs. COVID-19) X 2 (source: expert vs. nonexpert) experimental study with an US adult sample (N = 486). Using Bayes factors to quantify evidence for null and alternative hypothesis, I find substantial evidence that at least under the conditio…

  • An Examination of Expertise, Caring and Salient Value Similarity as Source Factors that Garner Support for Advocated Climate Policies

    Nathaniel Geiger, Melanie A Sarge et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Communication2022

    Emerging research has demonstrated that the effects of climate change communication are influenced by the message recipient’s perceptions of the message source. In the present study, we extend this previous work into a domain wrought with inferred communicator biases, policy advocacy. Competence and character enhancing source factors, expertise, perceived caring, and salient value similarity are manipulated to assess their impact on one’s likelih…

  • Young adults face the future of the United States

    Open AccessJoseph Kantenbacher, Deidra Miniard et al.ARTICLEFutures2022Cited by: 1References: 55

  • Using the three-pillar model of sustainability to understand lay reactions to climate policy

    Open AccessNathaniel Geiger, Janet K Swim et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Science & Policy2021Cited by: 1References: 5

  • The gendered nature of stereotypes about climate change opinion groups

    Open AccessJanet K Swim, Nathaniel GeigerARTICLEGroup Processes & Intergroup…2018Cited by: 7References: 8

    We document the gendered nature and valence of stereotypes about each of the Six Americas climate change opinion groups that represent a continuum of climate change opinions from Dismissive to Alarmed. Results primarily supported predictions. First, the more groups were associated with strong concern about climate change, the more feminine they were perceived to be. Second, groups with strong concern or strong lack of concern were seen the most n…

  • Creating a climate for change

    Open AccessNathaniel Geiger, Janet K Swim et al.ARTICLEJournal of Environmental Psychology2017

  • From Alarmed to Dismissive of Climate Change

    Janet K Swim, Nathaniel GeigerARTICLEEnvironmental Communication2017

    The present paper tests the validity of using a single-item individual difference measure of climate change concern derived from the “Six Americas” project’s descriptions of the US public’s concern about climate change. The “Six Americas” project identified six segments of the US population proposed to range from the most (i.e. Alarmed) to least Concerned (i.e. Dismissive). The order is also proposed to relate to issue involvement with those in t…

  • Observing Environmental Destruction Stimulates Neural Activation in Networks Associated with Empathic Responses

    Open AccessNathaniel Geiger, Caitlin R Bowman et al.ARTICLESocial Justice Research2017References: 56

  • Catalyzing Public Engagement With Climate Change Through Informal Science Learning Centers

    Open AccessNathaniel Geiger, Janet K Swim et al.ARTICLEScience Communication2017Cited by: 5References: 41

    Using the head, heart, and hands model, we examined a training program designed to catalyze national public engagement with climate change through informal science learning centers (e.g., aquariums, zoos). Survey data were collected from visitors ( N = 7,285) observing 1,101 presentations at 117 U.S. institutions before and after presenters participated in communication training. Visitors who attended posttraining (vs. pretraining) presentations …

  • Climate of silence

    Open AccessNathaniel Geiger, Janet K SwimARTICLEJournal of Environmental Psychology2016

  • Development and psychometric evaluation of the Personal Growth Initiative Scale–II.

    Christine Robitschek, Matthew W Ashton et al.ARTICLEJournal of Counseling Psychology2012

    The original Personal Growth Initiative Scale (PGIS; Robitschek, 1998) was unidimensional, despite theory identifying multiple components (e.g., cognition and behavior) of personal growth initiative (PGI). The present research developed a multidimensional measure of the complex process of PGI, while retaining the brief and psychometrically sound properties of the original scale. Study 1 focused on scale development, including theoretical derivati…