Social Drinking : Uses, Abuses & Psychological Factors Hardback
Edited by Katherine T Everly, Eva M Cosell
Hardback
Description
Social drinking refers to casual drinking in a social setting without an intent to get drunk.
Social drinking plays an important (but not traditional) role in such social functions as dating, and marriage.
For example, a person buying another a drink at a singles bar is a gesture that one is interested in the other and often initiates conversation, or at least flirtation.
Bad news is often expressed through a drink, whilst good news is often celebrated by having a few drinks.
Buying someone a drink is a gesture of goodwill, and can be used as an expression of gratitude or mark the resolution of a dispute -- to bury the hatchet, so to say.
The physical act of going to a comfortable setting with friends is a large part of sharing a drink in the above situations.
This new and important book gathers the latest research from around the globe in the study of social drinking and discusses several topics such as: social drinking during pregnancy can lead to foetal alcohol spectrum disorder, social influence on adolescent alcohol use, behavioural strategies for reducing high-risk drinking among college students, and others.
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:340 pages
- Publisher:Nova Science Publishers Inc
- Publication Date:21/05/2010
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- ISBN:9781608762194
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:340 pages
- Publisher:Nova Science Publishers Inc
- Publication Date:21/05/2010
- Category:
- ISBN:9781608762194
