Have you ever been hungry and at the same time you didn't feel comfortable looking at anything? This emotion is likely to affect your work and relationships. Scientists noticed the phenomenon and named it "hanger.". When the blood sugar level of the human body drops, it is difficult for people to concentrate. The ability of self-control becomes worse, and the ability to contain emotions is worse. At the same time, the mood will become irritable, more likely to anger others. Research published by the US Academy of Sciences has suggested that hunger may be the cause of the quarrel. So, what is hunger rage?
Have you ever had some kind of strange emotion when you were in the middle of the last meal and the next meal? Feeling unusually irritable, irritable and negative? If you do have this feeling, you may have experienced the feeling of hunger and anger. It's comforting to know that you're not the only one with "hunger anger" in the world with so much "food". According to the business insider website, scientists have recently begun to pay attention to this "strange" negative emotion and try to find out why it appears. According to the research of different teams, our mood and DNA can lead to "hunger rage".
Hunger can affect one's mood
Psychologists generally believe that hunger and emotion are separate, and hunger and other physical conditions are basic physiological needs. However, there is growing scientific evidence that physical state can affect our emotions and cognition in surprising ways.
Previous studies have shown that hunger does affect our emotions, probably because it activates many of the body's emotional systems, such as the autonomic nervous system (autonomic nervous system) and hormones. When we feel hungry, the body releases a lot of hormones, including cortisol and adrenaline, which are usually associated with stress. Therefore, when we are hungry, especially when we are very hungry, we will feel nervous and uneasy. When we are stimulated by these hormones, we will want to "do something".
Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are interested in hunger anger, and they want to see if the feelings of hunger can change people's feelings about themselves and the world around them. In psychology, a view called "emotional information equivalence theory" holds that emotion can temporarily affect one's view of the world. According to this theory, when we feel hungry, we look at things more negatively. When people don't notice their emotions, they are likely to be guided by the negative emotions. This shows that when people do not take the initiative to pay attention to their inner feelings, but focus on the surrounding environment, they may "blow up" if they are not satisfied.
Hunger and anger are related to negative emotions
The researchers conducted experiments to test whether hungry people are more likely to become hungry and angry when they are not paying attention to their feelings. The researchers selected American adults who were in the "full" and "hungry" groups. The participants were randomly asked to see three images, negative, positive and neutral. Then they were shown a random Chinese character. For native English speakers, the hieroglyphic Chinese characters were as difficult to understand as the book of heaven.
The researchers asked participants: does this character represent pleasure or unhappiness? The results showed that when hungry people saw negative images, they thought the next Chinese character represented a more unpleasant meaning. However, a hungry person's interpretation of a positive or neutral image is no different from that of a full person.
This suggests that when people are in a positive or neutral situation, there is no "hunger bias.". Hunger is associated with emotions only when people are faced with negative stimuli or situations.
"Emotional information equivalence theory" also shows that when people's feelings are "matched" with their environment, they are more likely to use their own feelings as information to interpret the world around them. Hunger may only be related to negative emotions, because hunger itself can lead to unpleasant feelings, and it is easy for people to mistakenly blame the negative things around them rather than their empty stomachs.
Hunger and anger may be determined by genes
In addition to "blaming" emotions, our DNA may also determine whether or not we are "hungry and angry.". DNA testing firm 23andMe conducted a survey of more than 100000 people, with a simple question: "how likely are you to be angry or irritable when you're hungry?" The results showed that more than 75 percent said they had experienced similar feelings, sometimes to the point of "hunger and anger.". In addition, women are more likely to be irritable when they feel hungry, and people under 50 are more likely to have "hunger anger".
The researchers then cross checked the results with genetic information collected by the company in DNA tests, and found that people who said they had "hunger and anger" matched certain genetic variants, suggesting that some people had this feeling because of their genes.
The researchers said they didn't expect to come up with this result. According to their initial expectation, the association between genes and the survey data should be based on metabolism. In other words, if a person is genetically unable to control his blood sugar level, then hypoglycemia can affect his mood. However, the two variants involved in the study of vaccinia related kinase 2 and exoribonuclease 1 genes are associated with personality and neuropsychiatric disorders, such as depression and schizophrenia. Jennie Sheldon, a scientist at 23 and me, says the genes involved in the mutation seem to be more relevant to our behavior and personality.
The researchers also said that our genes can only "reveal" a part of life information, and other factors can also lead to hunger and anger. According to a study published in the journal emotion, a survey of more than 200 college students found that the emergence of "hunger and anger" may be related to a person's specific environment, whether he is aware of his emotions and the degree of hunger.
Actual cases of hunger and anger
Low key man claps the table to the leader
Xu Ke, 28, works as an inspector in the quality department of a military enterprise. In the eyes of his colleagues, he has always been a low-key man who obeys the arrangement of the leadership. Xu Ke's communication with leaders usually has only two words: good.
However, Xu Ke, who followed the rules, even once patted the table with the leader, and the reason was that he was hungry. Xu Ke's colleague Lao he told the Chongqing Evening News that they usually held a summary meeting at noon, but on that day, because of the inspection task, the summary meeting was arranged until after work in the afternoon, and it continued from 17:00 to 19:00. At this time, Xu Ke suddenly stood up, patted the table, and yelled to the leader: "have you finished, we still have to eat, can we talk about it tomorrow?"
As soon as this was said, the whole office was quiet. In the face of Xu Ke's sudden outburst, the usually powerful leader only squeezed out two words: farewell.
Gentle accountant loses his temper
Xiao Lan, 55, originally an accountant, lives at 6-18, building 8, haojunge, Dadukou District. After retirement, she went to work for a friend's company. Usually Xiao Lan is gentle and introverted, and speaks softly. But one day, the delivery man was half an hour late. Xiao Lan, who was gentle, was angry with the delivery man. Finally, the restaurant owner made a phone call to apologize. Xiao Lan's daughter told the Chongqing Evening News that her mother's hypoglycemia was serious and she fainted when she was young and was sent to the hospital. Later, the family noticed that as long as Xiao Lan was hungry, he became nervous and irritable.
The ear and his girlfriend are in a bad mood
Lin can cherishes her girlfriend Lingling, whom she has worked so hard to catch up with. "He always let me have a fight. No matter right or wrong, he always bows his head first. I didn't expect that he would quarrel with me for hunger." Lingling said.
Recently, two people went shopping on a date. After noon, Lingling said that she was not hungry at all. She just wanted to buy some popcorn to go to the cinema. This makes Lin can, who has spent the morning with him, very upset. Lin can breathlessly enters the cinema and leaves Lingling to go home. Lin can said: "I always think that men should let their girlfriends, but you can't stop me from eating. I was tired and hungry after shopping all morning, and I watched some movies. I just feel hungry and angry. "
Don't get angry before and after dinner. Anger can hurt the liver as if taking poison
As the saying goes, nine times out of ten, anger and boredom are always unavoidable. However, health practitioners warn that "do not eat after anger, and do not be angry after eating", which means "anger before and after eating is harmful to health". Liver experts said: "angry do not eat, eat not angry, give yourself a happy table, also give yourself a healthy body."
Experts said that traditional Chinese medicine believes that anger can hurt the liver, and excessive anger can make the liver Qi rush upward, resulting in red face and red eyes, and even vomiting blood and syncope in severe cases. From the point of view of Western medicine, when life Qi, the body will secrete a substance called catecholamine, which acts on the central nervous system, increases blood sugar, strengthens fatty acid decomposition, and correspondingly increases toxins in blood and liver cells, thus damaging the liver. The liver is the largest digestive gland in the human digestive system. It can secrete bile, store liver glycogen, regulate the metabolism of protein, fat and sugar, as well as hematopoiesis and coagulation. In addition, the liver is also the largest detoxification organ in the human body. The toxicants and wastes produced in the body, as well as the poisons and drugs taken in, must also rely on the liver for detoxification. Therefore, it is not conducive to digestion, but also equivalent to taking poison.
After getting angry, people tend to think twice. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that "thinking and injuring the spleen" can cause symptoms of digestive tract such as belching, nausea, vomiting, abdominal distension and diarrhea, as well as deficiency of Qi and blood, fatigue, dizziness, palpitation and anemia. Western medicine believes that anger can cause sympathetic nerve excitation, acting on the heart and blood vessels, reducing blood flow in the gastrointestinal tract, slowing down peristalsis, poor appetite, and even causing gastric ulcer in severe cases. Therefore, Li Yuchun suggests that no matter what happens after eating, don't get angry, so as not to affect digestion and hurt Qi and blood.
Related anger family
Road rage
Car or motor vehicle drivers drive with anger, even aggressive behavior. Such behavior may include: rude gestures, insulting language, deliberately driving in an unsafe way. This statement originated in the 1980s and came from American psychology. Road rage has been incorporated into the New Oxford Dictionary of words to describe the anger caused by driving stress and frustration in traffic jams. The survey shows that 35% of 900 drivers randomly selected from three cities in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou think they have road rage.
Net anger
In the Internet age, it is very easy for netizens to form a war of words. Especially in daily life, gentle people may be at war in the network. At present, more and more celebrities are suffering from cyber rage. Experts analyze that this is due to the fact that people in the real society are subject to various constraints, and often strive to maintain the image of humility and courtesy. In the virtual cyberspace, people can speak anonymously, and the shackles in reality are stripped off, and people speak more unscrupulously.
Team rage
Psychological studies have found that people tend to be irritable when they are in line, such as feeling that they have to wait too long and are angry with people who jump in the queue. In order to solve the problem of queuing, people have come up with many ways, such as installing TV by the elevator, or playing slow music.
