“…Researchers consistently report that at least one third of the United States population has attempted such an intervention in the previous year (Rabow and Newcomb, 1992). Prior studies have shown that DUI intervention shares many cognitive characteristics with what experimental researchers have characterized as "helping behavior" or "altruism" (Rabow et al, 1990;Wolfinger, Rabow, and Newcomb, 1994). Furthermore, DUI interventions involve complex social and psychological dynamics (Gusfield, Kotarba, and Rasmussen, 1981;Newcomb et al, 1992;Hernandez et al, 1993;Turrisi et al, 1993).…”