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Gina
Agostinelli, Ph.D.
Research Scientist |
Norms,
Defensiveness, and College Heavy Drinking
Gina
Agostinelli received her doctoral degree in Social Psychology
at Indiana University in 1988. Dr. Agostinelli's work has
focused on both adolescent and college student drinking. She
has conducted several studies on how individuals at varying
levels of current drinking differentially process information
related to their own and others' drinking.
One
of her current projects employs the computer in order to interactively
provide college students with feedback concerning their own
drinking levels in different information processing contexts.
This project allows her to better examine the roles of contextual
factors in affecting how alcohol-related information is processed
by students. Specifically, the project examines whether the
feedback and its various implications are processed and accepted
in a more or less objective open manner, or are reacted to
in a counter-productive defensive, self-serving manner. This
work will thus inform those employing normative brief interventions
with college students, on the most effective information contexts
for delivering those interventions.
Other
research projects in the prevention field have included investigating
the link between college students' safe-sex beliefs and behaviors.
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