Andrew EarleLoyola Marymount University | LMU · Department of Psychology
Andrew Earle
Bachelor of Arts
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Introduction
Andrew Earle currently works at the Department of Psychology , Loyola Marymount University. Andrew does research in adolescent risk behaviors and parent-teen communication. His current project is 'The Role of Facebook & Instagram in the Alcohol Use Trajectories of First-Year College Students.'
Additional affiliations
October 2017 - present
Talking to Teens
Position
- Podcast Host and Blogger
May 2017 - August 2019
Oren Klaff
Position
- Ghostwriter
October 2016 - April 2018
Parris Law Firm
Position
- Researcher
Publications
Publications (15)
Previous research suggests that exposure to alcohol-related content on social media sites (SMSs) may inflate perceptions of drinking norms, thereby increasing drinking among college students and potentially undermining popular social norms-based alcohol interventions. However, prior research on exposure has used subjective measures of alcohol expos...
Objective
This study explored the burgeoning youth practice of possessing a fake, secondary Instagram account known as a “Finsta” in relation to exposure to alcohol-related content and college drinking.
Participants
First-year university students with at least a primary Instagram account (N = 296) completed online surveys.
Method
Surveys assessed...
THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF PITCH ANYTHING IS BACK TO FLIP YOUR ENTIRE APPROACH TO PERSUASION.
Is there anything worse than a high-pressure salesperson pushing you to say “yes” (then sign on the dotted line) before you’re ready?
If there’s one lesson Oren Klaff has learned over decades of pitching, presenting, and closing long-shot, high-stakes dea...
Virtual copresence, or the sense of being with others in an online space, is a feeling induced on many apps and websites through user avatars and browsable profile pages. Despite the small/modest effect sizes observed in popular web-based personalized normative feedback (PNF) alcohol interventions for college students, previous research has yet to...
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As marijuana use becomes more available to college students through increasing legal reform, this paper seeks to examine intentions for driving under the influence of cannabis (DUIC) and riding with a high driver (RWHD) through the lens of the theory of planned behavior (TPB) and assess potential interactions between personal attitudes,...
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Despite its prominence in the health communication literature, psychological reactance has rarely been considered as a factor that may undermine web-based Personalized Normative Feedback (PNF) alcohol interventions for college students. This study built on recent gamification work to examine how chance-based uncertainty, a popular game...
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Osteoporosis is a costly bone disease characterized by low bone mineral density (BMD) that primarily affects postmenopausal women. One factor that may lead to osteoporosis is a failure to reach peak bone mass (PBM) in early adulthood. In older adults and animal models, heavy episodic drinking (HED) has been found to predict failure to r...
Objective:
Examine 1) whether observed social reinforcements (i.e., "likes") received by peers' alcohol-related social media posts are related to first-year college students' perceptions of peer approval for risky drinking behaviors; and 2) whether associations are moderated by students' alcohol use status.
Participants:
First-year university st...
Our recent work (Boyle, Earle, LaBrie, & Smith, 2017) showed that the efficacy of personalized normative feedback-based (PNF) college alcohol interventions can be improved through the addition of gamified elements including points, chance, competition, and personal avatars. However, participants in that study were compensated with subject pool cred...
Gamified interventions exploit the motivational characteristics of a game in order to provide prevention information and promote behavior change. Despite the modest effect sizes observed in increasingly popular web-based personalized normative feedback (PNF) alcohol interventions for college students, previous research has yet to consider how gamif...
Studies examining representations of college drinking on social media have almost exclusively focused on Facebook. However, recent research suggests college students may be more influenced by peers' alcohol-related posts on Instagram and Snapchat, two image-based platforms popular among this demographic. One potential explanation for this different...
This study examined the efficacy of a personalized normative feedback (PNF) alcohol intervention for parents of students transitioning into college. A sample of 399 parent–student dyads were recruited to take part in the intervention during the summer prior to matriculation. Parents were randomly assigned to receive either normative feedback regard...
A randomized controlled trial tested an interactive normative feedback-based intervention—codenamed“FITSTART”—delivered to groups of 50–100 parents of matriculating college students. The 60-minsession motivated parents to alter their alcohol-related communication by correcting normative misperceptions
(e.g., about how approving other parents are of...
University personnel tend to view “helicopter” parents as problematic. This article presents an alternative view in which these highly engaged parents can instead be utilized productively. The authors describe and assess the fidelity of a novel program in which involved parents were effectively leveraged to mitigate student alcohol-related risk. Th...
Background:
Prepartying, or drinking before an event where more alcohol may or may not be consumed, has been positioned in the literature as a behavior engaged in by heavy drinkers. However, recent findings suggest that prepartying may confer distinct risks, potentially causing students to become heavier drinkers over time.
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The goals...
Projects
Project (1)
Previous studies examining the influence of social media sites on underage drinking have suffered from substantial methodological limitations (e.g., relying on self-reports of SMS use and exposure to alcohol-related content, examining Facebook alone despite emerging evidence that Instagram may be more influential; examining only one potential mediator [normative perceptions] of the SMS-alcohol relationship). Further, no interventions have yet been designed to mitigate the risk associated with SMS alcohol influence, largely because an understanding of the cognitive pathways involved is severely lacking.
In order to advance the scientific knowledge of SMS influences on college students' drinking and inform the development of SMS-based prevention efforts, goals of this NIAAA funded R21 project will: 1) evaluate short- and long-term effects of viewing SMS alcohol content on later drinking by using recently-developed content analysis software to objectively assess exposure to peers’ AOD-related posts on Facebook and Instagram; 2) elucidate both explicit (perceived norms, expectancies, beliefs) and implicit (approach/excite alcohol associations and implicit expectancies) cognitive mechanisms by which exposure to peers’ alcohol-related SMS content influences trajectories of use; 3) identify the characteristics of student observers (e.g., demographics and personality characteristics) that make SMS influence more likely; and 4) identify the specific attributes (e.g., media richness, social context) of alcohol-related social media content that make influence more likely.
This project will follow 400 incoming students from July 2017 (prior to matriculation) through April 2018 (spring semester of their first year). A software application installed on participants’ computers and smartphones will monitor time spent using SMS while a novel web portal designed for the present study will systematically sample content from participants’ Facebook and Instagram newsfeeds during the first 30 days of college. Throughout the year, participants will complete web-based measures assessing their explicit and implicit alcohol-related cognitions, personality and individual difference variables, and alcohol consumption and consequences. Findings will substantially bolster our understanding of SMS alcohol influence during a critical developmental period and will inform the development, implementation, and evaluation of SMS-based prevention and intervention efforts aiming to mitigate alcohol-related risks on college campuses.
