Why You Shouldn't Make Decisions When You're Hungry

Researchers have found that being hungry can trigger impulsive behavior, how is this evolutionarily advantageous?

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The Stomach-Derived Hormone Ghrelin Increases Impulsive Behavior
http://www.nature.com/npp/journal/v41/n5/full/npp2015297a.html
"Impulsivity, defined as impaired decision making, is associated with many psychiatric and behavioral disorders, such as attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder as well as eating disorders. Recent data indicate that there is a strong positive correlation between food reward behavior and impulsivity, but the mechanisms behind this relationship remain unknown."

Dopamine Determines Impulsive Behavior
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/dopamine-impulsive-addiction/
"Binge-shoppers and serial daters might perpetually be living at the whim of their latest impulse, and now research is getting to the biological basis of their seemingly random behavior."

Suffering Makes You Egoist: Acute Pain Increases Acceptance Rates and Reduces Fairness during a Bilateral Ultimatum Game
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/asset?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0026008.PDF
"Social preferences like interpersonal altruism, fairness, reciprocity and inequity aversion are inherently linked to departures from pure self-interest. During economic interactions, for example, defectors may be punished even if this implies a cost for the punishers. Here we explore whether the personal experience of pain changes the balance between self-gain and socially based choices."

Always Gamble on an Empty Stomach: Hunger Is Associated with Advantageous Decision Making
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0111081
"Three experimental studies examined the counterintuitive hypothesis that hunger improves strategic decision making, arguing that people in a hot state are better able to make favorable decisions involving uncertain outcomes."
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