Alcohol Myopia: Its Prized and Dangerous Effects
Steele & Josephs (1990) · American Psychologist, 45(8)
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What the study found
The authors reviewed experiments on drinking. They argue that alcohol affects social behaviour by weakening attention, so that the nearest signal controls what you do. This explains why alcohol reduces anxiety when something distracts you, and why it makes people misjudge a situation.
What the study cannot prove
This is a review of lab studies on drinking. It explains why alcohol both calms people and misleads them. It does not test what one drink does to one nervous person on one evening.
Limits we note on the exercises
This is a review of lab studies, not a study of dates. It cannot tell us whether one drink helps or harms a nervous person on a particular evening.
Where we use it
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