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 </em>myopia<em> is that alcohol’s principal effect is to narrow our emotional and mental fields of vision. It creates, in their words, “a state of shortsightedness in which superficially [not thoroughly or deeply] understood, immediate aspects of experience have a disproportionate influence on behavior and emotion.” 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. — Gladwell, </em>Talking to Strangers<em>, 207</em></p>
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