Some Universities Have Run Public Service Ads in Which They

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Essay

Some universities have run public service ads in which they give the results of a careful survey of their students with what students say is the average number of beers or drinks they are likely to consume in a given evening.Apart from establishing a drinking social norm,why be so explicit about the actual number of drinks? That is,what psychological tendency might the ads be attempting to thwart?

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