A science-based understanding of climate change and potential mitigation and adaptation
options can provide decision makers with important guidance in making decisions about …

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 …

How can we change social norms, the standards describing typical or desirable behavior?
Because individuals' perceptions of norms guide their personal behavior, influencing these …

One common obstacle to the audience's embracing the persuader's advocated action or
viewpoint is the audience's current attitudes, that is, the audience's general evaluations (of …

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 …

Normative restructuring strategies currently under way to combat alcohol-related problems
among US college students are based on the idea that students harbor inflated perceptions …

Objective: This article offers a developmental perspective on college drinking by focusing on
broad developmental themes during adolescence and the transition to young adulthood …

This multicountry study empirically explores the institutional determinants of macro–level
entrepreneurship. Findings suggest that a society's normative, cultural–cognitive, and …

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 …