Alcohol myopia and goal commitment
According to alcohol-myopia theory, acute alcohol consumption leads people to disproportionally focus on the salient rather than the peripheral aspects of a situation. We summarize various studies exploring how myopic processes resulting from acute alcohol intake affect goal commitment. After consum...
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| description | According to alcohol-myopia theory, acute alcohol consumption leads people to disproportionally focus on the salient rather than the peripheral aspects of a situation. We summarize various studies exploring how myopic processes resulting from acute alcohol intake affect goal commitment. After consuming alcohol student participants felt strongly committed to an important personal goal even though they had low expectations of successfully attaining the goal. However, once intoxicated participants were sober again (i.e., not myopic anymore) they failed to act on their goal commitment. In line with alcohol-myopia theory, strong goal commitment as a result of alcohol intake was mediated by intoxicated (vs. sober) participants disproportionally focusing on the desirability rather than the feasibility of their goal. Further supporting alcohol-myopia theory, when the low feasibility of attaining a particular goal was experimentally made salient (either explicitly or implicitly by subliminal priming), intoxicated participants felt less committed than those who consumed a placebo. We discuss these effects of acute alcohol intake in the context of research on the effects of chronic alcohol consumption on goal commitment. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-3935b427a31e4013b7b18d95861edc862022-12-21T18:54:49ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782014-03-01510.3389/fpsyg.2014.0016978924Alcohol myopia and goal commitmentA. Timur Sevincer0Gabriele eOettingen1Gabriele eOettingen2University of HamburgUniversity of HamburgNew York UniversityAccording to alcohol-myopia theory, acute alcohol consumption leads people to disproportionally focus on the salient rather than the peripheral aspects of a situation. We summarize various studies exploring how myopic processes resulting from acute alcohol intake affect goal commitment. After consuming alcohol student participants felt strongly committed to an important personal goal even though they had low expectations of successfully attaining the goal. However, once intoxicated participants were sober again (i.e., not myopic anymore) they failed to act on their goal commitment. In line with alcohol-myopia theory, strong goal commitment as a result of alcohol intake was mediated by intoxicated (vs. sober) participants disproportionally focusing on the desirability rather than the feasibility of their goal. Further supporting alcohol-myopia theory, when the low feasibility of attaining a particular goal was experimentally made salient (either explicitly or implicitly by subliminal priming), intoxicated participants felt less committed than those who consumed a placebo. We discuss these effects of acute alcohol intake in the context of research on the effects of chronic alcohol consumption on goal commitment.http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00169/fullMotivationalcoholSelf-regulationexpectationsincentivegoal commitment |
| spellingShingle | A. Timur Sevincer Gabriele eOettingen Gabriele eOettingen Alcohol myopia and goal commitment Frontiers in Psychology Motivation alcohol Self-regulation expectations incentive goal commitment |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Alcohol myopia and goal commitment |
| title_short | Alcohol myopia and goal commitment |
| title_sort | alcohol myopia and goal commitment |
| topic | Motivation alcohol Self-regulation expectations incentive goal commitment |
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