Alcohol myopia - Wikipedia
Alcohol myopia is a cognitive-physiological theory on alcohol use disorder 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.
Alcohol, Violence, and the Alcohol Myopia Model: Preliminary …
One of the most compelling theories attempting to explain alcohol-related violence is the Alcohol Myopia Model (AMM; Steele & Josephs, 1990) which postulates that intoxication impairs controlled effortful cognitive processing dependent on intact attentional capacity.
7 Effects of Alcohol Myopia - Psychology Today
Jul 7, 2016 · Alcohol leads to myopia (short-sightedness). Alcohol consumption—getting drunk—narrows your focus of attention and thoughts to the most obvious information or cues in your immediate environment.
What Alcohol Does to Your Mind: Attentional Myopia - PsyBlog
Mar 11, 2010 · The alcohol myopia model says that drink makes our attentional system short-sighted and the more we drink, the more short-sighted it becomes. With more alcohol our brains become less and less able to process peripheral cues …
Alcohol Myopia - iResearchNet
Alcohol myopia theory explains why alcohol consumption can sometimes lead to unexpected behaviors or moods. For example, sometimes a person might become “the life of the party” after drinking alcohol, yet in another circumstance, that person might become quiet and withdrawn after consuming alcohol.
1. Alcohol intoxication consistently restricts the range of cues that we can perceive in a situation. When we are drunk we simply attend to and encode fewer avail- able cues, internal as well as external. 2. Alcohol intoxication reduces our ability to pro- alcohol myopia,
Alcohol Myopia Revisited: Clarifying Aggression and Other …
The alcohol myopia model (AMM; Steele & Josephs, 1990) is reviewed in light of its unique ability to account for a variety of alcohol and nonalcohol-related disinhibited behaviors, particularly aggression. The AMM posits that alcohol has a narrowing, or a …
Alcohol, violence, and the Alcohol Myopia Model: preliminary findings ...
The model contends that alcohol has a "myopic" effect on attentional capacity that presumably facilitates violence by focusing attention onto more salient provocative, rather than less salient inhibitory, cues in hostile situations.
The alcohol myopia model (AMM; Steele & Josephs, 1990) is reviewed in light of its unique ability to account for a variety of alcohol and nonalcohol-related disinhibited behaviors, particularly aggression.
[PDF] Alcohol, violence, and the Alcohol Myopia Model: …
Oct 1, 2011 · The attentional myopia model of behavioral control was tested in an experiment investigating the relationship between physiological arousal and aggression and provided some of the first evidence for enhanced control of aggression under conditions of …
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