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BACKROUND Research suggests that the social media platforms popular on college campuses may reflect, reinforce, and even exacerbate heavy drinking practices among students. The present study was designed to directly examine: (1) whether exposure to alcohol-related content on social media diminishes the efficacy of a traditional web-based personaliz...

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... For example, adolescents exposed to the highest quartile of movie alcohol exposure were at increased risk for every drinking milestone, including sipping (7% increased risk for every extra hour of movie alcohol exposure), initiation (risk increased by 49% to 53% over 2 years), consuming a full alcoholic beverage (increased risk by 6% for each hour of movie alcohol exposure), weekly drinking (2.4 times more likely), heavy episodic drinking (8% additional risk per hour of movie alcohol exposure), and binge drinking (1.7 times more likely; Bigman et al., 2020;Jackson et al., 2018;Waylen et al., 2015). Complementing this, exposure to alcohol in popular media can limit the effectiveness of alcohol interventions (Boyle et al., 2021). ...