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*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/17th_century 1622]
==Definitions==
*1: lacking [[foresight]]
*2: nearsighted
==Description==
The terms "''myopia''" and "myopic" (or the common terms "''shortsightedness''" or "'''shortsighted'''", respectively) have been used [[metaphorically]] to refer to cognitive [[thinking]] and [[decision]] making that is narrow in scope or lacking in [[foresight]] or in concern for wider interests or for longer-term [[consequences]]. It is often used to describe a decision that may be beneficial in the [[present]], but detrimental in the [[future]], or a [[viewpoint]] that fails to consider anything outside a very narrow and limited range. ''Hyperopia'', the biological opposite of myopia, may also be used metaphorically for a [[value]] system or [[motivation]] that exhibits "farsighted" or possibly [[visionary]] [[thinking]] and [[behavior]]; that is, emphasizing long-term interests at the apparent expense of near-term benefit.
[[Category: Psychology]]
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/17th_century 1622]
==Definitions==
*1: lacking [[foresight]]
*2: nearsighted
==Description==
The terms "''myopia''" and "myopic" (or the common terms "''shortsightedness''" or "'''shortsighted'''", respectively) have been used [[metaphorically]] to refer to cognitive [[thinking]] and [[decision]] making that is narrow in scope or lacking in [[foresight]] or in concern for wider interests or for longer-term [[consequences]]. It is often used to describe a decision that may be beneficial in the [[present]], but detrimental in the [[future]], or a [[viewpoint]] that fails to consider anything outside a very narrow and limited range. ''Hyperopia'', the biological opposite of myopia, may also be used metaphorically for a [[value]] system or [[motivation]] that exhibits "farsighted" or possibly [[visionary]] [[thinking]] and [[behavior]]; that is, emphasizing long-term interests at the apparent expense of near-term benefit.
[[Category: Psychology]]
