Alcohol myopia

Alcohol myopia

Alcohol myopia is a cognitive-physiological theory on alcohol abuse in which many of alcohol's social and stress-reducing effects, which may underlie its addictive capacity, are explained as a consequence of alcohol's narrowing of perceptual and cognitive functioning.

It has three central traits:
*Drunken Excess: the tendency for those who drink to behave more excessively.
*Self-Inflation: the tendency to inflate self-evaluations.
*Drunken Relief: the tendency for people who drink to worry less and pay less attention to their worries.

References

*Linda Brannon and Jess Feist, "Health Psychology, An Introduction to Behavior and Health", Sixth Edition, Thomson Wadsworth (2007)


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