Beer Beats Wine In Regular Consumption Alcohol has long been portrayed as a "social lubricant", an effect possibly explained by the alcohol myopia theory. It suggests that intoxication can result in "hyperfocus directed to emotional situations when they are sufficiently relevant to grab attention, or a reduced attentional focus to emotional events in the presence of a relevant demanding task", according to a 2010 paper on the topic by a group of researchers from Spain and Brazil. ... Read this story
