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The Psychology Of Hunger

Are you really you when you're hungry? What makes someone go from simply being hungry to full-on 'hangry'? More than just a simple drop in blood sugar, this combination of hunger and anger may be a complicated emotional response involving an interplay of biology, personality and environmental cues. Source 8b.

Hunger Psychology The

While I have never experienced a person who was actually "Hangry" I have met a few people who stated they were getting to the point of being hangry. I think this new word of hangry is just a metaphor for many people with those that actually do get hangry are few and that could be a condition they grew up with as a way to get food so they were not hungry anymore. I would take this more as a learned response than just something people throw around to get attention at times.

The Psychology Of Hunger Health & Special Psychology

Link between hunger and mood explained. The study used rats to examine the impact on emotional behavior of a sudden drop in blood sugar. When the rats were given a glucose blocker, researchers found they had higher levels of cortisol. They also showed signs of stress and sluggish behavior similar to a poor mood. To prove the behavior wasn't just a lack of glucose to the muscles, researchers then gave them a common antidepressant and the behavior disappeared. Source 5v.