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Feeling Hangry? When Hunger Is Conceptualized as Emotion

Feeling Hangry? When Hunger Is Conceptualized as Emotion Many people feel emotional when hungry—or “hangry”—yet little research explores the psychological mechanisms underlying such states. Guided by psychological constructionist and affect misattribution theories, we propose that hunger alone is insufficient for feeling hangry. Rather, we hypothesize that people experience hunger as emotional when they conceptualize their affective state as negative, high arousal emotions specifically in a negative context. Studies 1 and 2 use a cognitive measure (the affect misattribution procedure; Payne, Hall, Cameron, & Bishara, 2010) to demonstrate that hunger shifts affective perceptions in negative but not neutral or positive contexts. Study 3 uses a laboratory-based experiment to demonstrate that hunger causes individuals to experience negative emotions and to negatively judge a researcher, but only when participants are not aware that they are conceptualizing their affective state as emotions. Implications for emotion theory, health, and embodied contributions to perception are discussed. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Emotion American Psychological Association

Feeling Hangry? When Hunger Is Conceptualized as Emotion

MacCormack, Jennifer K.; Lindquist, Kristen A.
Emotion , Volume 19 (2): 19 – Mar 11, 2019
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American Psychological Association
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© 2018 American Psychological Association
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1528-3542
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1931-1516
DOI
10.1037/emo0000422
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Abstract

Many people feel emotional when hungry—or “hangry”—yet little research explores the psychological mechanisms underlying such states. Guided by psychological constructionist and affect misattribution theories, we propose that hunger alone is insufficient for feeling hangry. Rather, we hypothesize that people experience hunger as emotional when they conceptualize their affective state as negative, high arousal emotions specifically in a negative context. Studies 1 and 2 use a cognitive measure (the affect misattribution procedure; Payne, Hall, Cameron, & Bishara, 2010) to demonstrate that hunger shifts affective perceptions in negative but not neutral or positive contexts. Study 3 uses a laboratory-based experiment to demonstrate that hunger causes individuals to experience negative emotions and to negatively judge a researcher, but only when participants are not aware that they are conceptualizing their affective state as emotions. Implications for emotion theory, health, and embodied contributions to perception are discussed.

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Emotion – American Psychological Association

Published: Mar 11, 2019

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