Alcohol myopia and goal commitment

Publikation: Beiträge in ZeitschriftenKommentare / Debatten / BerichteForschung

Authors

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.

OriginalspracheEnglisch
Aufsatznummer169
ZeitschriftFrontiers in Psychology
Jahrgang5
AusgabenummerMAR
Anzahl der Seiten5
ISSN1664-1078
DOIs
PublikationsstatusErschienen - 04.03.2014
Extern publiziertJa

Dokumente

DOI

Zuletzt angesehen

Forschende

  1. Carlos Vittar

Publikationen

  1. Inflation and Deflationary Biases in Inflation Expectations
  2. Hochschule neu denken
  3. Transdisziplinarität praktizieren
  4. Queer Studies
  5. Applying social-ecological system resilience principles to the context of woody vegetation management in smallholder farming landscapes of the Global South
  6. Is personal initiative training a substitute or complement to the existing human capital of women?
  7. Albert, Alice, Alfred
  8. Das Weltsystem des Erdöls
  9. First rate constants reactions of OH radicals with amides
  10. Wirkung intermittierender akustischer Reize auf mentale Prozesse
  11. Affective Human-Robot Interaction
  12. COVID Capitalism
  13. Reconciling Intragenerational and intergenerational environmental justice in Philippine agriculture
  14. From a problem to a business opportunity-design of pharmaceuticals for environmental biodegradability
  15. Promoting pre-service teachers' professional vision of classroom management during practical school training
  16. Interoperability of mineral sustainability initiatives
  17. § 29 Windenergie
  18. Studies with trialkylsilyltriflates
  19. Interfunctional business models
  20. The german greens in the 1980s
  21. Die deutschen Grundschulen im internationalen Vergleich
  22. Web-based depression treatment
  23. Cradle to Cradle im Holzfertigbau
  24. Ressourceneffizienz in der Praxis
  25. On the Spot
  26. Coming late for dinner
  27. Perceived inclusivity and trust in protected area management decisions among stakeholders in Alaska
  28. Longitudinal and Latitudinal Distribution of Perfluoroalkyl Compounds in the Surface Water of the Atlantic Ocean
  29. Organizational justice and managerial commitment in corporate mergers
  30. Übermittlung, Passage, Kanal, Medium
  31. Branchenspezifische IT-Innovationssysteme: Von der Analyse zur Intervention - Am Beispiel des IT-Innovationssystems für Krankenhäuser in Deutschland
  32. Description of a new species of Anchomenidius Heyden 1880 from the Montes de Leön in north-west Spain (Carabidae)
  33. Elections in Asia and the Pacific: A Data Handbook
  34. Memorandum
  35. "Keine Sommerfrische"
  36. UK public perceptions of shale gas hydraulic fracturing
  37. Social movement theory and research on radicalisation