Is there a direct link between hunger and anger??

Scientists have revealed that the angry outburst caused by hunger, referred to as "hangry," is real and not just an excuse, according to science.

The word is used to describe a person who is angry or irritable because he is starving.

It has been used by millennials and on social media for years, but has become widespread, and by 2018 it was added to the Oxford English Dictionary.

Participants were asked to write down how hungry they were and how they felt five times a day using an app.

And the British newspaper, “Daily Mail”, quoted the main stomach Professor Viren Swami, a psychologist from Anglia Ruskin University in London, as saying that there was a “surprising” lack of research on hangry.

"By following people in their daily lives, we found that hunger is associated with levels of anger, irritability and pleasure."

"Many of us are aware that hunger can affect our feelings, but surprisingly little scientific research has focused on hangry," Swami said.

Although our study doesn't offer ways to mitigate negative feelings of hunger, research suggests that being able to categorize feelings can help people regulate them, such as realizing that we feel angry just because we're hungry.

Therefore, increasing awareness of hangry can reduce the likelihood that hunger will lead to negative feelings and behaviors in individuals.

The researchers recruited 64 people from central Europe, who recorded their hunger levels and various measures of emotional well-being over a 21-day period.

They reported their hunger and their emotions on a smartphone app five times a day.

Hunger was associated with 37% of the variance in irritability, 34% of the variance in anger and 38% of the variance in pleasure that participants recorded.

The effects were significant, even after accounting for factors such as age, gender, body mass index, dietary behavior, and individual personality traits.

The results were published in the journal Plos One.

Professor Stefan Steiger, a psychologist at Karl Landsteiner University of Health Sciences in Austria, who was involved in the study, said: “This pending effect has not been analyzed in detail. So we chose a field approach where participants were invited to respond to prompts to complete summary surveys on an app. These prompts were sent five times a day on quasi-random occasions over a period of three weeks. This allowed us to generate extensive longitudinal data in a way not possible with conventional lab-based research."

Although this approach requires a great deal of effort — not only for the participants but also for the researchers designing such studies — the results provide a high degree of generalizability compared to laboratory studies, giving a more complete picture of how people experience emotion.