Scientists Proved Empty Stomach Took Best Decision

Until now it was thought that a hungry man is unlikely to be thinking about something other than the food, but it is not.

If you are like most people, you probably get quite grumpy man when hungry. But a new study shows that an empty stomach helps to make more informed decisions.

To find out, the researchers raised the subjects of the night. When the subjects were in the lab, some of them are served breakfast, and others forced to wait. Participants then received a psychological test, which is based on the actual gambling, and whose main task was to ensure to get the test simulate real decision-making process. The researchers found that the subjects chose the hungry during the test, the most profitable and efficient solutions. But well-fed subjects did not so. Hunger also helped the subjects did not take the choice that promised them immediate benefits, but in the long term was unprofitable.

Here is what the authors say about his experiment:

"During the three research goal was to explore the controversial hypothesis, which states that hunger improves strategic decision making. Studies 1 and 2 showed that the subjects were hungry with good appetite to choose more lucrative options in the proposed test in comparison with the full subjects, whose appetite was not so good. Study 3 showed that hungry subjects were better able to assess the prospects and future reward for solving problems with delay discounting, and that hungry subjects were not inclined to take risks for the sake of short-term benefits at the expense of long-term benefit. Together, these studies provide the first clear evidence that the state of hunger repeatedly improves decision making under uncertainty, challenging the traditional concept of the harmful role of impulsivity in the process of making important decisions.