TY - JOUR
T1 - Hangry in the field
T2 - An experience sampling study on the impact of hunger on anger, irritability, and affect
AU - Swami, Viren
AU - Hochstöger, Samantha
AU - Kargl, Erik
AU - Stieger, Stefan
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 Swami et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
PY - 2022/7
Y1 - 2022/7
N2 - The colloquial term "hangry" refers to the notion that people become angry when hungry, but very little research has directly determined the extent to which the relationship between hunger and negative emotions is robust. Here, we examined associations between everyday experiences of hunger and negative emotions using an experience sampling method. Sixty-four participants from Central Europe completed a 21-day experience sampling phase in which they reported their hunger, anger, irritability, pleasure, and arousal at five time-points each day (total = 9,142 responses). Results indicated that greater levels of self-reported hunger were associated with greater feelings of anger and irritability, and with lower pleasure. These findings remained significant after accounting for participant sex, age, body mass index, dietary behaviours, and trait anger. In contrast, associations with arousal were not significant. These results provide evidence that everyday levels of hunger are associated with negative emotionality and supports the notion of being "hangry".
AB - The colloquial term "hangry" refers to the notion that people become angry when hungry, but very little research has directly determined the extent to which the relationship between hunger and negative emotions is robust. Here, we examined associations between everyday experiences of hunger and negative emotions using an experience sampling method. Sixty-four participants from Central Europe completed a 21-day experience sampling phase in which they reported their hunger, anger, irritability, pleasure, and arousal at five time-points each day (total = 9,142 responses). Results indicated that greater levels of self-reported hunger were associated with greater feelings of anger and irritability, and with lower pleasure. These findings remained significant after accounting for participant sex, age, body mass index, dietary behaviours, and trait anger. In contrast, associations with arousal were not significant. These results provide evidence that everyday levels of hunger are associated with negative emotionality and supports the notion of being "hangry".
KW - Anger/physiology
KW - Arousal
KW - Ecological Momentary Assessment
KW - Humans
KW - Hunger
KW - Irritable Mood
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U2 - 10.1371/journal.pone.0269629
DO - 10.1371/journal.pone.0269629
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 35793289
SN - 1932-6203
VL - 17
SP - e0269629
JO - PLoS ONE
JF - PLoS ONE
IS - 7
M1 - e0269629
ER -