Talk:Alcohol expectancies

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Thank you.David Justin 01:45, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

This page currently has a warning, stating that it may not be important enough to be mentioned in wikipedia.

I disagree completely. It is fairly likely that, at some stage in the future, I will come to this page, follow the link to the referred article, and quote it in an argument. I expect that there are others in the same position.

Leave the page here. Please?

-- (Random wikipedia reader.)

To address the question of importance I added the following sentence at the end of the first paragraph: "To the extent that alcohol expectancies and can be changed, it may be possible to reduce a major social and health problem, that of alcohol abuse."

However, the sentence was deleted, apparently because it was seen as lacking a neutral point of view. Could the problem be the statement that alcohol abuse is "a major social and health problem"? I encourage others to either state their views on this or to edit/replace that sentence with an acceptable explanation of the importance of alcohol expectancies.

Thank you for helping to improve Wikipedia.David Justin 21:28, 12 January 2006 (UTC)