When dealing with your mind it tends to play tricks on you. If you are hungry your emotions can switch from being hungry to hangry, which is “bad-tempered or irritable as a result of hunger”. People have experienced hunger as a negative state, having that hunger can shift your perception into a negative emotion. Sometimes you aren’t aware that it is affecting your state of emotion. There has been evidence that emotion impacts your everyday life.
People are aware that emotions can be from “visual perception to decision making and interpersonal process” but what they aren’t aware of is that hunger can impact “emotional experiences and behaviors is captured in the colloquial expression hangry”. Hunger can release a ton of emotion that usually you feel like you can control most of the time. In that moment it will impact your judgment and make you aggressive against others. At that moment your body is releasing so much emotion you acting in a way you don’t tend to act especially aggressive behavior. Psychological constructionist theories propose that “all mental events, including emotions, arise from the dynamic co-action of domain-general psychological processes”. With that being said, the brain will use prior experiences and knowledge that affect the body. Having that such a strong effect makes your behavior and judgment negative to the point you aren’t normally like that but when being hungry that’s how it comes off to one another. In that moment you pretty much become unaware of how you are acting and the judgments you are making when you are hangry.
Affects the body like the core with the idea that hunger impacts it. “When blood sugar drops, ghrelin, the metabolic hormone that signals hunger, triggers a cascade of hormones, such as a cortisol, that act on the sympathetic nervous system, in turn inducing unpleasant, highly arousing affective bodily changes (Christensen, Mark & Rose)”. Having those body changes, you would experience greater emotionality when hunger-induced. Hungry people would more likely experience negativity, arousal emotions, and behavior. There is so much going on with your body when you are hungry, it changes your body drastically. For males when experiencing “physical attraction when they encountered an attractive female as opposed to male research assistant after crossing rickety, arousal- inducing suspension bridge versus a low, stable bridge”. Another condition that can affect someone is bad weather. It can “shift individuals” affective states and influenced subsequent judgment of life satisfaction but only when individuals were unaware of the source of their affective feelings. There have been studies to see “hunger” in the form of negativity. There’s a highly aroused emotion when people make meaning of their hunger-induced.
Individuals who are unaware of making meaning of their affective state as emotional would experience “hangers” than individuals who were hungry and aware of making meaning of their affective state as emotional individuals. When you don’t have aware of that emotion you tend to become angry and have a negative situation that causes that unpleasant emotion. Even hunger can affect your images, it can either be negative or positive images and thus an index of their degree of affect misattribution. They found that the hungrier an individual reported feeling, “the more likely they were to rate ambiguous pictographs as negative in the presence of a negative, but not neutral context”. Although pictures may be different for people depending on their mental state. Seeing those pictures can make your mental state worse and cause negative things to happen and make it actually worse when you are hungry. When having so many things going on with your body at once having images may only do harm and no good in that situation because of how your emotions are all over the place. It’s less likely to have positive outcomes because you don’t make meaning in the state of mind you are in, when you are hungry you are having more negative thoughts than positive thoughts so when looking at those pictures it will less likely be positive.
After reading, I’ve learned that hunger is a powerful thing. It can bring out so many emotions in you especially ones you aren’t used to coming out. Hunger can influence self-reported emotions and interpersonal judgment. You can experience multiple negative emotions when hungry. With that much change to your body, the emotions just flow out and you almost tend to lose control of your emotions and behavior. Hunger is one of those things which causes a mixture of emotions and have you going from one emotion to another. You can go from being hungry to hangry, to your blood sugar being low and causing your emotions to be all over the place and making you aggressive and have a negative attitude to you having a negative outlook when looking at a picture that is shown to you. Therefore, there are so many negative outcomes when you are hungry!