TV shows convey mixed messages about alcohol

Wednesday, March 25, 2009 - 13:49 in Psychology & Sociology

Efforts to dissuade youth consumption through negative alcohol consumption depictions can be thwarted by portrayals of positive consumption in prime-time television programming. A new study in the Journal of Consumer Affairs reveals that television series often portray mixed messages about alcohol, but the positive and negative messages were shown differently.

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