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wore Goth-like fashion: See, for example, Anderegg.
“We needed to know”: Ibid.
“keep them under surveillance”: Brief interview, Elliot Aronson. See also Aronson, Elliot. Nobody left to hate: teaching compassion after Columbine, New York: W. H. Freeman and Company, 2000.
“the ones you point out”: Interview.
Blue: Blue and I had enough discussions about this topic that I believed that he was not realistically any danger to himself or others.
A surprising number answered yes: Interviews.
“The needs of students”: Interview.
“robust” and “remarkable”: See Puckett. See also Rose and Swenson. See also LaFontana. See also Andreou, Eleni. “Social Preference, Perceived Popularity and Social Intelligence: Relations to Overt and Relational Aggression,” School Psychology International, Vol. 27, 2006, which states, “Relational aggression may predict increased perceived popularity.”
the foundation for eventual racism: See, for example, Adler and Adler, 1995.
his family moved there from Plattsburgh: See, for example, Belluck, Pam and Wilgoren, Jodi. “Shattered Lives—A special report,” The New York Times, June 29, 1999.
played soccer and Little League: Ibid.
earned good grades: See, for example, Florio, Gwen; Lelyveld, Nita; and Jones, Richard. “Looking into the Souls of Teens En Route to Ruin,” The Philadelphia Inquirer, April 25, 1999.
he was popular: See Aronson.
CHAPTER 7
“It’s really down to the people”: Interview.
to prove that they can manage: Interviews.
“I did it because I wanted”: Interview.
trying alcohol at younger ages: See, for example, Mays, Darren; Thompson, Nancy; Kushner, Howard I.; Mays II, David F.; Farmer, Derrick; and Windle, Michael. “Sports-specific factors, perceived peer drinking, and alcohol-related behaviors among adolescents participating in school-based sports in Southwest Georgia,” Addictive Behaviors, 35, 2010.
“On the south side”: Interview.
“I’m not a Mormon”: Interview.
a bookworm in Syracuse: Interview.
“The drinking divide”: Interview.
declining since 1999: See, for example, “Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report,” Surveillance Summaries, CDC, June 4, 2010.
study conducted at a Midwestern high school: See Haines, M. and Christensen, S. “Communities Use a Social Norms Approach to Reduce Teen Alcohol and Tobacco Use: Two Case Studies,” Conference presentation at The National Conference on the Social Norms Model, Boston, MA, July 17, 2003. In addition, people tend to evaluate their participation in high-risk behavior by comparing themselves to other people. So if students believe that classmates are drinking more than they individually are, they tend to underestimate their personal risk. See, for example, Sessa, Frances M. “Peer Crowds in a Commuter College Sample: The Relation Between Self-Reported Alcohol Use and Perceived Peer Crowd Norms,” The Journal of Psychology, Vol. 141, No. 3, 2007.
college students wildly overestimate: See, for example, Pedersen, Eric R.; LaBrie, Joseph W.; and Lac, Andrew. “Assessment of perceived and actual alcohol norms in varying contexts: Exploring Social Impact Theory among college students,” Addictive Behaviors, Vol. 33, 2008.
the more anxious a student is: See, for example, Neighbors, Clayton; Fossos, Nicole; Woods, Briana A.; Fabiano, Patricia; Sledge, Michael; and Frost, Deborah. “Social Anxiety as a Moderator of the Relationship Between Perceived Norms and Drinking,” Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, January 2007.
a student’s normative beliefs: See, for example, “Does Prevention Work?” FCD Educational Services.
“significantly higher levels”: See Mays.
they actually drink more: See, for example, Lewis, Todd F. “An explanatory model of student-athlete drinking: the role of team leadership, social norms, perceptions of risk, and coaches’ attitudes toward alcohol consumption,” College Student Journal, Vol. 42, Issue 3, September 2008.
Sports teams develop: See, for example, Mays. See also Martens, Matthew P.; Dams-O’Connor, Kristen; and Duffy-Paiement, Christy. “Comparing Off-Season with In-Season