Literature Review #1

(1) Visual

(2) Citation:

Glindemann, Kent E., Ian J. Ehrhart, Elise A. Drake, and E. S. Geller. "Reducing Excessive Alcohol Consumption at University Fraternity Parties: A Cost-effective Incentive/reward Intervention."Addictive Behaviors 32.1 (2007): 39-48. Print.

(3) Summary:

Experiment on students that resided in Blacksburg, Virginia, where six random fraternities were randomly to participate. Some were chosen to hand out flyers to partygoers during a party, the other fraternities were not asked to hand out the flyers. On the flyers, they read, any student that has a BAC lower than .05 they are entered in a $100 cash lottery. Then the researchers compared student’s BAC levels that attended the party handing out the flyers versus the student’s BAC level. They wanted to see if giving students a reward would lower binge drinking behavior within fraternity parties.

(4) Authors:

Kent Glindemann- Although I could not find any information specifically about him, I did find that he wrote a bunch of other scholarly articles pertaining to social psychology. I believe this makes him a knowledgeable source if he has multiple published works online with his research.

Ian Ehrhart- Also, very difficult to find information about him directly. However, I found he wrote another paper called "Alcohol Expectancies and Self-Efficacy as Moderators of Social Anxiety and Alcohol Use Among College Students". I feel that he already wrote about alcohol use in college students makes him another knowledgeable source.

Elise Drake received her BS in Psychology from Elmira College in New York. She graduated from Barry University with an MS in Clinical Psychology and from Virginia Tech with a PhD in Clinical Psychology. She then completed her Predoctoral Internship in the Department of Behavioral Medicine and Psychiatry at WVU School of Medicine/Charleston Area Medical Center in 2009. I feel like with all these degrees it is obviously she is a reliable source.

E.S. Geller, Ph.D., is Alumni Distinguished Professor at Virginia Tech (this paper was about student from there!) and Director of the Center for Applied Behavior Systems in the Department of Psychology. He is a part of the American Psychological Association, the Association for Psychological Science, and the World Academy of Productivity and Quality, he has accomplished so much more, needless to write more it is evident he has the credentials to be a source in my paper.

(5) Key Terms

Some key terms I found helpful in this article was incentive/reward and intervention. Both of these terms were vital while reading through and understanding the value of the results and statistics. Incentives and rewards pertaining to this article can be described as an item of value given to the students to reinforce good behavior. Thus, giving them $100 will make them drink less (good behavior). Intervention can be defined as attempting to change or stop bad behavior. The experimenters wanted to intervene these parties so they can find effective ways lower binge drinking rates, thus keeping students safer.

(6) Quote:

“The fraternities in the experimental group (group that received flyers), mean BAC levels were significantly lower at the intervention parties than at the baseline parties and the percentage of partygoers with a BAC below 0.08 was significantly higher at the intervention parties than the baseline parties”.

This quote is the most important quotes pertaining to my paper. Stating that according to their statistics done after the data was collected that giving the students a reward lower the binge drinking a significant amount, which offers a specific solution to the problem at hand, binge drinking among the college population, at fraternity parties.

(7) Value

This paper was extremely important to my claim in question. In my paper I discuss how I believe how universities are handling the problem with binge drinking among students is not a great way to handle it. I explain that this research is a perfect idea to make students want to change their behavior, because I am a frm believer that nothing will change unless you want it to change. And what this research shows is that students are motivated to change because they are getting a reward for good behavior.