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Melissa A Lewis1, Clayton Neighbors
1Department of Orientation and Student Success, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58105-5552, USA. Melissa.Lewis@ndsu.edu
Abstract:
College students have been shown to consistently overestimate the drinking of their peers. As a result, social norms approaches are effective in correcting these misperceived norms to reduce alcohol consumption and alcohol-related problems. In this review of literature, the authors critically evaluated the effectiveness of personalized normative feedback. In addition, the authors reviewed personalized normative feedback interventions and provided suggestions for increasing the efficacy of these interventions by making better use of salient referent group data.
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