| Alcohol affects goal commitment by explicitly and implicitly induced myopia. | |
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PMID: 22004115 Owner: NLM Status: Publisher |
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Alcohol commits people to personally important goals even if expectations of reaching the goals are low. To illuminate this effect, we used alcohol myopia theory, stating that alcohol intoxicated people disproportionally attend to the most salient aspects of a situation and ignore peripheral aspects. When low expectations of reaching an important goal were activated students who consumed alcohol were less committed than students who consumed a placebo. We observed less commitment regardless of whether low expectations were explicitly activated in a questionnaire (Study 1) or implicitly activated through subliminal priming (Study 2). The results imply that, intoxicated people commit to goals according to what aspects of a goal are activated either explicitly or implicitly. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2011 APA, all rights reserved). |
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A Timur Sevincer; Gabriele Oettingen; Tobias Lerner |
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Type: JOURNAL ARTICLE Date: 2011-10-17 |
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Title: Journal of abnormal psychology Volume: - ISSN: 1939-1846 ISO Abbreviation: - Publication Date: 2011 Oct |
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Created Date: 2011-10-18 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 0034461 Medline TA: J Abnorm Psychol Country: - |
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Languages: ENG Pagination: - Citation Subset: - |
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