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Hunger Is Associated with Advantageous Decision Making
- danielweber 12y agoWhen I am hungry or bothered or annoyed, I am more likely to say "no." I'm having trouble reading the article (they've disabled the up- and down-arrow to scroll for some insane reason), but the one test I can see is having subjects inflate a balloon, giving them more rewards the bigger they inflate it, but nothing if it pops. The lesson is "don't get too greedy." When I am hungry, I'm not going to keep on guessing as to how far I can push something. I'm going to stop early.
- brighid 12y agoI'm perplexed. The result here doesn't make sense evolutionarily. Time discounting should be highest when you're hungry because your first priority should be making it to the next time point (the discount factor measures uncertainty.) Related: http://www.indiana.edu/~abcwest/pmwiki/CAFE/Wang%20-%20Sweet%20future.pdf http://www.indiana.edu/~abcwest/pmwiki/CAFE/Wang%20-%20Sweet...
- dllthomas 12y agoI wonder if it matters just how hungry you are. If you're hungry because it's winter and there's less food - but still enough to see you through to spring - then you'd better not prioritize the shortest term.
- GFK_of_xmaspast 12y agoMaybe your BIOTRUTHs expectations are not actually correct.