The effect of modeling and disclosure of experimenter's intent on drinking rate of college students

The Big Impact of Small Groups on College Drinking

“…Moreover, this control behavior appears to be independent of the individual’s awareness of the peer influence. Experiments (Dericco and Garlington 1977; Derrico 1978) have tended to corroborate the notion that agents are influenced by indirect PI within a drinking context. Osgood and colleagues (2013) also observe not only significant relationships between individual and peer behavior in alcohol use but also strong tendencies for friendship selection based on similar drinking behavior.…”

Draughts and drunks: The contributions of taverns and bars to excessive drinking in America

“…Of course, in the absence of true experimental controls, a number of questions can be raised about both reliability and validity. However, it is interesting and important to note that the findings of these studies have, in general, been replicated and confirmed in more controlled laboratory settings as well (e.g., Caudill and Marlatt, 1975;Garlington and Dericco, 1976;Dericco and Garlington, 1977). Taken altogether, these experimental studies have consistently shown strong relationships between the sheer amount of alcohol consumed by subjects on the one hand and such social factors as the size of the drinking group, ethnic influences, mixed-sex interactions, and the like (Cutler and Storm, 1975;Harford et al, 1975;Kessler and Gomberg, 1974;Rosenbluth et al, 1975).…”

“…Causal direction is problematic in some of these studies but generally can be sorted out to isolate drinking quantity or frequency as the dependent variable (Reid, 1978;Graves et al, 1979). Of special interest here is the recurrent finding, whether in laboratories or in natural tavern settings, that drinking rates and amounts are strongly influenced by the drinking behavior of laboratory models or of drinking peers, the more so as these models exhibit a warm and friendly demeanor (Caudill and Marlatt, 1975;Dericco and Garlington, 1977;Reid, 1978).…”

“…Much of the work in this literature has been done in the "naturalistic" settings of bars or taverns themselves (e.g., Bruun, 1959;Sommer, 1965;Kessler and Gomberg, 1974;Cutler and Storm, 1975;Harford, Feinhandler, andDorman, 1975, 1976;Bissonette, 1977;Plant et al, 1977;Babor et al, 1978b;Reid, 1978;Rosenbluth et al, 1978;Graves et al, 1979). However, a few important studies have been done by behavioral psychologists in laboratory-simulated bar or tavern settings (e.g., Caudill and Marlatt, 1975;Garlington and Dericco, 1976;Dericco and Garlington, 1977;Babor et al, 1978a). Some of these studies have pointed to a rather remarkable convergence between the findings from laboratory studies and the findings from the "natural" settings (e.g., Reid, 1978;Babor et al, 1978a;Graves et al, 1979).…”

Longitudinal Study of Assertion Training as a Drug Abuse Prevention Strategy

“…In the first place, of all the psychosocial correlates of drug use, most conspicuous are the relationships between an individual's use of drugs and the drug-taking behavior of peers (Swisher, Warner, & Herr, 1972); reported correlations are consistent across all drug categories including smoking (Levitt & Edwards, 1970), drinking (Kandel, Kessler, & Margulies, 1978), and the consumption of illegal substances (Kandel, 1974a(Kandel, , 1974b. Second, the power of peer influence has been experimentally demonstrated on alcohol consumption (Dericco & Garlington, 1977) and in the formation of expressed drug attitudes (Shute, 1975;Stone & Shute, 1977). Finally, there is some evidence that drug users lack assertiveness skills (Horan, D'Amico & Williams, 1975); such a deficit could easily increase one's vulnerability to drug-use peer pressure.…”