Looking to have my chapter 5 edited..I'm pasting the project purpose in case that would help.<br /><br />If you need my results section and full proposal let me know.<br /><br /><p><strong>Project Purpose:</strong></p><p>Studies have shown that college students have a tendency to overestimate the amount of alcohol their peers drink.  These misperceptions, or incorrect perceptions, may cause college students to engage in abnormal drinking behavior they wouldn’t normally engage in due to the fact that they think what they are doing is “normal.” People are more likely to engage in a behavior when they think it is normal or acceptable and, if they knew the behavior was not normal, their tendency to engage in such behavior would be reduced. “Well everyone’s doing it so I should do it to.”</p><p>This study will examine whether presenting normative information about college drinking behavior to college students—as well as how that information is presented—has any effect on their perceptions of college drinking behavior. The researcher will assign participants to one of three groups. One group will receive information on typical drinking behavior with the data anchored in abstinence/low drinking (i.e., 55% of students consume 1 drink or less per week) and the other will have the data anchored in heavy drinking (i.e., 45% of students drink heavily). Finally, a third group, which will serve as a control group, will not receive any normative data. This will allow to the researcher to first determine whether the presentation of normative data has any effect on college students’ misperceptions of drinking behavior. Also, it will inform the researcher whether the manner in which<em> </em>the data are presented has an effect on these misperceptions. Essentially, could outreach efforts benefit from presenting information in a way that focuses on the majority of students who do not engage in problematic drinking or only the minority of students who do engage in problematic drinking?</p><p>Discovering a low-cost, minimally invasive way to clarify misperceptions about drinking behavior would be useful in helping colleges across America reduce the incidence of problematic drinking. If students realize that heavy drinking is not the norm, they may be less likely to engage in such behaviors. This study attempts to clarify misperceptions about college drinking so students will realize that problematic drinking is not the norm.</p>