Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2013
Abstract
Ten studies link hunger to reduced self-control. Higher levels of hunger-as assessed by self-report, time since last eating, or physiology-predicted reduced self-control, as indicated by increased racial prejudice, (hypothetical) sexual infidelity, passivity, accessibility of death thoughts and perceptions of task difficulty, as well as impaired Stroop performance and decreased self-monitoring. Increased rates of hunger across 200 countries predicted increased war killings, suggestive of reduced aggressive restraint. In a final experiment, self-reported hunger mediated the effect of hungry (v fed) participants performing worse on the Stroop task, suggesting a causal relationship of hunger reducing self-control.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.4236/psych.2013.41008
Repository Citation
Gailliot, Matthew T., "Hunger and Reduced Self-Control in the Laboratory and across the World: Reducing Hunger as a Self-Control Panacea" (2013). Faculty Publications. 9.
https://scholarworks.sfasu.edu/psychology_facultypubs/9
Comments
Gailliot, M. T. (2013). Hunger and Reduced Self-Control in the Laboratory and across the World: Reducing Hunger as a Self-Control Panacea. Psychology, 04(01), 59–66. https://doi.org/10.4236/psych.2013.41008