Preliminary analyses were conducted to develop the novel image-based survey items for the study using existing data collected as part of an intervention effort in the Richmond, VA area. These data were collected during ten semi-structured interviews. The participants were recruited through a partnership with a community youth organization. Participants were aged 16–20, eight of them were female, two were male, and all were Black. Respondents organized a set of sixty-nine I-Base images of demographically matched males and females into groups representing the peer crowds in their social environment. Results were recorded