Did you know that a research study has discovered that feeling hungry can actually make us “hangry,” the phenomenon when people become angry when hungry.
We are already aware that being hungry can influence our emotions, but there is little scientific research on being ‘hangry’. However, findings from the Anglia Ruskin University (ARU), UK and the Karl Landsteiner University of Health Sciences, Austria, show that hunger is associated with increased anger and irritability. Interestingly researchers found that this hunger-induced behavioral change can be reversed by re-feeding and is caused by intestinal cells and neurons communicating and producing behavioral changes.
#Source_of_Study:
- Viren Swami, Samantha Hochstöger, Erik Kargl, Stefan Stieger. Hangry in the field: An experience sampling study on the impact of hunger on anger, irritability, and affect. PLOS ONE, 2022; 17 (7): e0269629 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0269629
- MacCormack JK, Lindquist KA. Feeling hangry? When hunger is conceptualized as emotion. Emotion. 2019 Mar;19(2):301-319. doi: 10.1037/emo0000422. Epub 2018 Jun 11. PMID: 29888934.
- Molly A. Matty, Hiu E. Lau, Jessica A. Haley, Anupama Singh, Ahana Chakraborty, Karina Kono, Kirthi C. Reddy, Malene Hansen, Sreekanth H. Chalasani. Intestine-to-neuronal signaling alters risk-taking behaviors in food-deprived Caenorhabditis elegans. PLOS Genetics, 2022; 18 (5): e1010178 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1010178
- Jennifer K. MacCormack, Kristen A. Lindquist. Feeling hangry? When hunger is conceptualized as emotion.. Emotion, 2018; DOI: 10.1037/emo0000422
- American Psychological Association. “Are you really you when you’re hungry? Hunger can lead to anger, but it’s more complicated than a drop in blood sugar, study says.”