The Social Norms Approach is a widely used intervention strategy for promoting positive
health-related behaviors. The Approach operates on the premise that individuals …

Peer pressure is consistently implicated in the excessive drinking of college students.
However, both theory and empirical findings suggest that peer pressure is a combination of …

The purpose of this article is to identify a set of interlinked social mechanisms that have
important, sometimes desirable, but at other times harmful effects on risk regulation. The …

Objective: Many college students overestimate both the drinking behaviors (descriptive
norms) and the approval of drinking (injunctive norms) of their peers. As a result, consistent …

Objective: This article provides a review of conceptual and empirical studies on the role of
social norms in college student alcohol use and in prevention strategies to counter misuse …

This article provides a review and synthesis of professional research literature on the types,
extent and patterns of negative consequences produced by students' misuse of alcohol in …

Although a number of studies demonstrate the impact of perceived norms on human
behavior, we know little about how this relation works. Extant norms-based campaigns to …

Cheaters and noncheaters were assessed on 2 types of motivation (mastery and extrinsic),
on perceived social norms regarding cheating, on attitudes about cheating, and on …

This exciting volume marks the birth of a new field--a field that studies law with reference to
an accurate, rather than a crude, understanding of human behavior. Behavioral Law and …

Deterrence is at the heart of the preventive aspiration of criminal justice. Deterrence,
whether through preventive patrol by police officers or stiff prison sentences for violent …