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teenage peer pressure drugs and alcohol

esting that their paper be sent to the journal in order to be printed in an upcoming issue. For a book to be reviewed all that the author has to do is send the book to the journal and hope that it is reviewed and included in an upcoming issue.The name of the article that was chosen is “Image Advertisements for Alcohol Products: Is Their Appeal Associated with Adolescents’ Intention to Consume Alcohol.” The authors of this article are Ruth W. Edwards and Kathleen J. Kelly. Ruth Edwards is a research scientist at the Tri-Ethnic Center for Drug Abuse Prevention at Colorado State University. She also has a PhD in psychology. The other author, Kathleen Kelly, is a professor in the college of business at Colorado State University. This article is setup in a research paper format that spans across thirteen pages in the journal. This article is considered to be a research paper because the data and experiments contained within it suggest that it is research data.The basis that the authors had for this article was to determine if image alcohol ads influenced adolescents to drink more than product advertisements. The way that they wanted to accomplish this task was to run experiments to try and see how the advertisements affected the choices of the adolescents. The authors found a test group that consisted of 376 seventh graders, 376 ninth graders and 315 eleventh graders. These adolescents were shown both image and product advertisements. After the advertisements were shown, the students had to answer a series of questions based upon their feelings of the advertisements. These answers were then analyzed and ranked based upon the student’s classification. What was discovered is that adolescents chose the image advertisement over the product advertisement. What this drives people to believe is that teenagers drink to try to fit the image that is perceived in the advertisement.Psychological journals tend to be listed in the ...

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