Regarding LR, aspects of Social Information Processing, Peer Cluster, and Social Learning models led to the low LR-based model presented in Figure 1 (Bandura, 1997; Brown et al., 2008; Dodge et al., 2003; Schuckit et al., 2004). Here, it is hypothesized that: 1) an individual is likely to consume the amount of alcohol needed to achieve desired effects; 2) if more alcohol is required for such effects, they are likely to drink more per occasion; 3) the low LR contributes to association with peers who are likely to have a similar response to alcohol and who, therefore, consume similar higher doses of alcohol per occasion (Henry et al., 2005); 4) a person's low LR and the influence of similar peers is likely to affect what one should expect from alcohol during a drinking session (Brown et al., 2008; Schuckit et al., 2004); and that 5) the low LR, peer influences, and more positive alcohol expectancies are hypothesized to encourage using alcohol to cope with life problems (Veenstra et al., 2007).
