Binge Drinking and the Death of a Homecoming Queen

Binge Drinking and the Death of a Homecoming Queen

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Binge Drinking and the Death of a Homecoming Queen

Attributed to Charles Stangor Saylor.org

Saylor URL: http://www.saylor.org/books/ 791

Sam Spady, a 19-year-old student at Colorado State University, had been a homecoming queen, a class president, a

captain of the cheerleading team, and an honor student in high school. But despite her outstanding credentials and

her hopes and plans for the future, Sam Spady died on September 5, 2004, after a night of binge drinking with her

friends.

Sam had attended a number of different parties on the Saturday night that she died, celebrating the CSU football

game against the University of Colorado–Boulder. When she passed out, after consuming 30 to 40 beers and shots

over the evening, her friends left her alone in an empty room in a fraternity house to sleep it off. The next morning a

member of the fraternity found her dead (Sidman, 2006). [1]

Sam is one of an estimated 1,700 college students between the ages of 18 and 24 who die from alcohol-related injuries

each year. These deaths come from motor vehicle crashes, assaults, and overdosing as a result of binge drinking

(National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, 2010). [2]

―Nobody is immune,‖ said Sam‘s father. ―She was a smart kid, and she was a good kid. And if it could happen to her, it

could happen to anybody.‖

Despite efforts at alcohol education, Pastor Reza Zadeh, a former CSU student, says little has changed in the drinking

culture since Sam‘s death: ―People still feel invincible. The bars still have 25-cent shot night and two-for-ones and no

cover for girls‖(Sidman, 2006). [3]

Sam‘s parents have created a foundation in her memory, dedicated to informing people, particularly college students,

about the dangers of binge drinking, and to helping them resist the peer pressure that brings it on. You can learn

more at http://samspadyfoundation.org about the foundation.

We have now reached the last chapter of our journey through the field of psychology. The

subdiscipline of psychology discussed in this chapter reflects the highest level of explanation that

we will consider. This topic, known associal psychology, is defined as the scientific study of how

we feel about, think about, and behave toward the other people around us, and how those people

influence our thoughts, feelings, and behavior.

The subject matter of social psychology is our everyday interactions with people, including the

social groups to which we belong. Questions these psychologists ask include why we are often

Attributed to Charles Stangor Saylor.org

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helpful to other people but at other times are unfriendly or aggressive; why we sometimes

conform to the behaviors of others but at other times are able to assert our independence; and

what factors help groups work together in effective and productive, rather than in ineffective and

unproductive, ways. A fundamental principle of social psychology is that, although we may not

always be aware of it, our cognitions, emotions, and behaviors are substantially influenced by

the social situation, or the people with whom we are interacting.

In this chapter we will introduce the principles of social cognition—the part of human thinking

that helps us understand and predict the behavior of ourselves and others—and consider the

ways that our judgments about other people guide our behaviors toward them. We‘ll explore how

we form impressions of other people, and what makes us like or dislike them. We‘ll also see how

our attitudes—our enduring evaluations of people or things—influence, and are influenced by,

our behavior.

Then we will consider the social psychology of interpersonal relationships, including the

behaviors of altruism, aggression, and conformity. We will see that humans have a natural

tendency to help each other, but that we may also become aggressive if we feel that we are being

threatened. And we will see howsocial norms, the accepted beliefs about what we do or what we

should do in particular social situations (such as the norm of binge drinking common on many

college campuses), influence our behavior. Finally, we will consider the social psychology of

social groups, with a particular focus on the conditions that limit and potentially increase

productive group performance and decision-making.

The principles of social psychology can help us understand tragic events such as the death of

Sam Spady. Many people might blame the tragedy on Sam herself, asking, for instance, “ Why

did she drink so much?‖ or “ Why didn‘t she say no?‖ As we will see in this chapter, research

conducted by social psychologists shows that the poor decisions Sam made on the night she died

may have been due less to her own personal weaknesses or deficits than to her desires to fit in

with and be accepted by the others around her—desires that in her case led to a disastrous

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