adults’alcohol consumption.
Footnotes
1. By doing this, it is possible to study longitudinal and selection effects. In this paper we only looked at the results of the first measurement. The participants were informed beforehand that they were expected to come to our bar lab more than once. We told the participants that we did not fully explain the aims of our (cover-up) story. Therefore, aspects of the study that may have seemed odd to the participants were often attributed to the aim of our (cover-up) story.
None of the participants was confused about the fact that they were expected to come back after some time.
2. It is essential to mention that soft alcoholic drinks in the Netherlands are relatively cheap (for example, in ordinary bars or restaurants, the price of a beer (.25 centilitre does not exceed 2.00 Euros). This implies that offering drinks for free does not encourage excess drinking for the majority of Dutch youths. Of course, if this study would have been conducted in cultures with a different drinking culture, offering drinks for free would probably lead to binge drinking in almost all of the participants. Nonetheless, still many students consumed a substantial number of drinks in this time-out session.
3. Group sessions differed in duration of the time-out session (between 52 and 58 minutes).
Because the duration of this part of the study is of course related to the opportunity to drink alcohol, we decided to score a period of 52 minutes for all groups.
4. In our study we used glasses that were smaller than standard glasses. In all sessions the same glasses were used and filled to the same level. The contents of beer glasses were on average 160 ml and the contents of wine glasses 110 ml. The (lager) beer we used in our study contained 5% alcohol, which means that a glass of beer contained on average 8 ml pure alcohol. The wines we offered contained from 11 to 12% alcohol, so a glass of wine contained from 12.1 to 13.2ml pure alcohol.
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