More evidence has emerged that the level of anger and irritability in a person increases in a state of hunger. This conclusion was made by scientists from Austria.
A hungry person is angry, this is well known to many. A new study has shown that hunger is indeed associated with anger, irritability and low mood. Previously, other scientists have already found a connection between hunger and anxiety, nervousness and irritability, and in children also with behavioral difficulties. But the connection between hunger and emotions or mood was not so clear.
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Now, scientists have assessed the extent to which self-reported levels of hunger were associated with daily fluctuations anger over a three week period. Although the effects of hunger are not always associated only with anger, volunteers were also asked about irritability in order to get a more holistic view of emotionality, measures of pleasure, arousal, and similar mood changes. The final sample included 64 people who were recruited through social networks.
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They all completed a daily survey 5 times a day for 21 days. Volunteers answered about the level of hunger, the degree of irritability and anger, indicated the current emotional state based on the so-called Russell grid with two scales from pleasant to unpleasant and from weak to strong arousal. The results show that hunger was associated with more anger and irritability and less pleasure, but not with arousal. (READ MORE)