来源：《今日美国》
原文见报日期：2022年7月11日
If you are someone who gets angry if you haven’t eaten, also known as “hangry,” a new study says you aren’t being irrational.
一项新的研究表明，如果你是一个因为没吃东西而生气的人，也被称为“饿怒”，你并不是不理智。
The findings, published in the peer-reviewed journal Plos One on Wednesday, come from one of the first studies to examine the relationship of hunger and anger. Viren Swami, lead author and social psychology professor at Anglia Ruskin University in the U.K., said he became interested in understanding the “hangry” phenomenon after his wife told him he would behave that way but wasn’t sure if it was real.
这项研究于周三发表在同行评议期刊《公共科学图书馆·综合》上，是首批研究饥饿和愤怒之间关系的研究之一。该研究的第一作者、英国安格利亚鲁斯金大学的社会心理学教授维伦·斯瓦米说，他对“饿怒”现象的理解产生兴趣，是因为他的妻子告诉他，他会“饿怒”，但不确定这是不是真的。
“I have an interest in the effects of hunger and eating on our well-being and behaviors, so this seemed like a natural extension, especially as there has been very little research on the topic,” he said.
他说：“我对饥饿和饮食对我们的福祉和行为的影响很感兴趣，所以这似乎是一个自然的延伸，尤其是在这方面的研究很少的情况下。”
To understand the relationship between the two, researchers had 64 people throughout Europe record their levels of hunger and emotion well-being five times a day over three weeks.
为了了解两者之间的关系，研究人员让欧洲各地的64个人在三周内每天五次记录他们的饥饿和情绪幸福水平。
Researchers then examined the results, and though they had to factor in a person’s sex, age, diet and body mass index, the results were the same: People were angry and irritable when they didn’t eat.
研究人员随后检查了结果，尽管他们必须考虑一个人的性别、年龄、饮食和体重指数，但结果是一样的：当人们不吃东西时，他们会生气和易怒。
“We show, for the first time in a non-laboratory, real-world setting, that feeling hungry is associated with greater anger, irritability and lower levels of pleasure,” Swami said.
斯瓦米说：“我们首次在非实验室的真实环境中表明，饥饿感与更大的愤怒、易怒和更低的快乐水平有关。”
The data showed hunger was associated with 37% of changes in irritability, 34% in anger and 38% in pleasure, which suggested the emotions were caused by fluctuations in hunger. “Being hangry is real,” the study reads.
数据显示，37%的易怒情绪变化与饥饿有关，34%的愤怒情绪变化与饥饿有关，38%的快乐情绪变化与饥饿有关，这表明情绪是由饥饿波动引起的。“饿怒是真实存在的，”研究写道。
Though researchers were able to associate negative emotions with hunger, it is unclear why hunger could sway emotions. Researchers suggested low blood glucose levels could be triggering irritability, or people could be annoyed or irritated quicker than usual when hungry.
虽然研究人员能够将负面情绪与饥饿联系起来，但尚不清楚为什么饥饿会影响情绪。研究人员表示，低血糖水平可能会引发易怒，或者人们在饥饿时比平时更容易烦躁或生气。
Swami said further research is needed to understand hangry and noted that feelings of positivity weren’t recorded when participants did eat.
斯瓦米说，需要进一步的研究来理解饿怒，并指出，当参与者吃东西时，并没有记录到积极的情绪。
Regardless, Swami wants people to know that if they say they feel hangry, they should feel validated. “Our findings also have important implications that touch on political, social and economic issues: No one should go hungry because of the negative outcomes of hunger.”
不管怎样，斯瓦米希望人们知道，如果他们说自己感到饿怒，他们应该了解这是有因果关系的。“我们的研究结果还对政治、社会和经济问题产生了重要影响：任何人都不应该挨饿，因为饥饿有负面后果。”