Do You Make Better Choices When Hungry Analysis

Marissa Fessenden, in her magazine “Do You Make Better Decisions When Hungry?” (October 27, 2014), looks at how hunger affect people’s decisions and actions. Although experience tells us that a growling stomach makes people impulsive therefore affected their decisions in a bad way, Fessenden says otherwise. She states that hunger actually causes people to make better decisions. To support this statement, Fessenden shows “three different experiments that paired fasting with a decision-making task to see how being hungry affects the choices we make.” One of the experiment was a gambling card games played by a group of regular students versus a group of hungry students. As they proceed with the gambling, Fessenden finds that “hungry students figured it out and chose more cards from …show more content…
This outcome also demonstrates how our brain reacts and pushes itself to the limit due to hunger and thus making an ultimate analyzed decision, claiming to be a better one in this case. Likewise in our daily lives, we may not notice it but hunger often affects our decision making; a process of opening up our mind actively seeking the best possible way to counteracts our feeling of hunger. In Fessenden’s language, this is also known as a gut feeling. The article, which speaks about people’s basic need, answers my GRQ by telling us how these needs for food impacts decision making. In my GRQ, hunger is one of the needs or desire element that directly impact decision making. Although Fessenden’s experiment is not consistent enough to prove that hunger always trigger better decision but we can be sure that it is a crucial impact to the decisions we make. I find this article especially interesting because it is like a paradigm shift for me. I have heard about a hungry man is an angry and depressed man who is in a deprived state, but never thought that a hungry person will actually make a good