Press Releases & Opinion Pieces (2005)

New Nationwide Study Reveals Some Colleges Succeed at Reducing High-Risk Drinking and Increasing Student Safety (08/29/2005).
A nationwide study just published in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol confirms that most college students overestimate peer drinking, that these misperceptions have the strongest impact on student alcohol misuse, and that less high-risk drinking and fewer negative consequences were found among students at schools whose prevention information is associated with students having more accurate perceptions of the campus drinking norm...

Six Leading Universities Report Decreases in High-Risk Drinking, Reduced Negative Consequences, and More Accurate Perceptions as a Result of Multi-Year Social Norms Interventions (08/4/2005).
In a teleconference/web-conference today hosted by the National Social Norms Resource Center, representatives for California State University, Fresno, Florida State University, Michigan State University, Virginia Commonwealth University, Georgetown University and the University of Virginia reported that the social norms approach is effectively reducing the misperceptions students have about their peers' actual alcohol intake and, in turn, reducing high-risk drinking and negative consequences campus-wide. The findings were originally released at this summer's 2005 National Social Norms Conference, held July 13-15 in Toronto, Canada.