How Alcohol Changes Your Thinking

<p><em>The myopia theory was first suggested by psychologists Claude Steele and Robert Josephs, and what they meant by&nbsp;</em>myopia<em>&nbsp;is that alcohol&rsquo;s principal effect is to narrow our emotional and mental fields of vision. It creates, in their words, &ldquo;a state of shortsightedness in which superficially [not thoroughly or deeply] understood, immediate aspects of experience have a disproportionate influence on behavior and emotion.&rdquo; Alcohol makes the thing in the foreground even more salient [most noticable or important] and the thing in the background less significant. It makes short-term considerations loom large, and more cognitively demanding [requires more thinking], longer-term considerations fade away. &mdash; Gladwell,&nbsp;</em>Talking to Strangers<em>, 207</em></p> <p><a href="https://jamesonsteward.medium.com/how-alcohol-changes-your-thinking-358d056cf627"><strong>Click Here</strong></a></p>