Following approval from the university’s Institutional Review Board and incorporating informed consent procedures, participants were selected from a larger university-wide study of substance use and emotional health among college students (“Spit for Science”, Dick et al., 2014), an online survey offered to all incoming students aged 18 or older early in the fall of their freshman year. The participation rate for the parent study was 59% of those invited (N=2,022). As part of this initial survey, participants who reported having used alcohol five or more times in their lives (57.7%) responded to the Self-Rating of the Effects of Alcohol (SRE) scale (Schuckit et al., 1997). This scale consists of four questions that ask students to think back to the first five times they consumed alcohol and report how many standard drinks it took for them to feel tipsy/have a buzz, feel dizzy/slur their speech, stumble/find it hard to walk, and fall asleep without intending to. A SRE score, representing the average number of drinks needed to feel these intoxicating effects, was calculated. The higher the SRE score, the lower the
