title: C-SIDE: drinking simulation for college students.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Our goals were to develop a realistic simulation of collegiate drinking contexts and evaluate the predictive validity of this methodology.
  
  
  METHODS
  After methods development, 88 incoming students (61% women) completed measures of alcohol consumption, alcohol expectancies and motives, and the Collegiate-Simulated Intoxication Digital Elicitation (C-SIDE). Eight months later, students reported recent drinking behavior and alcohol-related consequences.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Willingness to drink alcohol on the C-SIDE predicted high-risk drinking at the end of the students' first year above and beyond baseline consumption. Accepting offers of food/nonalcoholic beverages across contexts predicted lower scores on the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test 8 months later. Drinking game contexts elicited different levels of behavioral willingness; a game with explicit heckling elicited less drinking willingness than one in a smaller and more casual environment.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  These findings support the integration of social context into the assessment of alcohol-related decision making and the further development of strategies to understand context-dependent phenomena.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Reed College, Portland, OR 97202, USA. Kristen.Anderson@reed.edu
authors.forename: Kristen G
authors.initials: KG
authors.lastname: Anderson
authors.forename: Katia
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Duncan
authors.forename: Morgan
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Buras
authors.forename: Cody D
authors.initials: CD
authors.lastname: Packard
authors.forename: Carly
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Kennedy
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000428:Alcohol Drinking / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology*; D019973:Alcohol-Related Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology*; D003198:Computer Simulation; D003657:Decision Making; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009042:Motivation; D010988:Play and Playthings; D011237:Predictive Value of Tests; D012309:Risk-Taking; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology*; D014495:Universities; D055815:Young Adult