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...article in the International Journal of the Addiction, Perkins cites a study he conducted with psychologist Alan D. Berkowitz, also from Hobart and William Smith, which found that the gap of perception between "personal attitudes" and the "perceived norm" is substantial. In that study, Perkins and Berkowitz conclude: "Virtually no direct association between drinking behavior and perceived norms was found...
...Crimson will have to find out whether Saturday's disappointment was the exception or the norm. The defense allowed the Engineers to shoot over 61 percent from the floor, including 63.6 percent from three-point range. Though the flat defensive play provided Harvard its first stumbling block of the season, the players are taking it in stride...
...Some people [in the study] drank as much as three or four [drinks per day] but that was not the norm," said Gaziano...
While this scene from "The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, Her Lover" might seem unfit to be shown in a Harvard classroom, it is the norm for one of the grizzliest classes offered at Harvard this semester, English 195z: "Cannibals...
...feeling is that the presidency today is becoming a miniaturized and marginalized office, and as such is returning to something like the constitutional norm of American history." Will said yesterday. "Congres- sional autonomy has been the norm...