Responses showed predictable differences between men and women and between binge drinkers and non-binge drinkers. The students wrote a press release highlighting their findings. It was reported in one of our student daily newspapers, a local Madison paper, the AP news service, Milwaukee newspapers, several regional Wisconsin newspapers, the Chicago Tribune, USA Today, and on Wisconsin Public Radio and Wisconsin Public Television. The stories focused on the differences in why men and women drink. According to the survey results, female students drink alcohol to feel more powerful-to shed their usual inhibitions and assert their ideal selves.
Male students drink alcohol to find a date and to have sex.
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