Interdisciplinary projects seem prone to certain tensions. A persistent one at the intersection of anthropology and law is the pull between the descriptive and the normative register. It came up for ...

Aim This study aims (i) to understand how descriptive normative beliefs (DNB) about typical students’ alcohol use and self-regulation (SRG) are related to alcohol use (AU) by exploring the indirect ...

Individuals who engage in risky sexual behavior face the possibility of experiencing negative consequences. One tenet of social learning theory is that individuals engage in behaviors partly based on ...

Explanation: Just because the claim makes a specific reference to some culture, it does not follow that the claim is itself a merely descriptive claim. It is making a claim about how you should act, ...