From my anecdotal experience, being grumpy when hungry I would say definitely. :)
But it's not just me for sure.
A well-known study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) in 2011 found that judges' decisions can be influenced by extraneous factors such as the time of day. Specifically, the study observed that judges were more likely to grant parole at the beginning of the day or after a meal break, with favorable rulings decreasing as the session progressed.
This pattern suggests that factors unrelated to the legal merits of a case, like mental fatigue or hunger, can affect judicial decision-making.
> […] I want to take a different approach in this blog. I think we should dismiss this finding, simply because it is impossible. When we interpret how impossibly large the effect size is, anyone with even a modest understanding of psychology should be able to conclude that it is impossible that this data pattern is caused by a psychological mechanism.
> If hunger had an effect on our mental resources of this magnitude, our society would fall into minor chaos every day at 11:45. Or at the very least, our society would have organized itself around this incredibly strong effect of mental depletion. Just like manufacturers take size differences between men and women into account when producing items such as golf clubs or watches, we would stop teaching in the time before lunch, doctors would not schedule surgery, and driving before lunch would be illegal.
The lunch break literally a thing that exists because society is organized around hunger a food a lot.
People being somewhat harsher or less focused does not imply everything should stop. That is massive exaggeration. What happens is that organizations have lunch breaks and people have snacks so that effect is not too large.
But it's not just me for sure.
A well-known study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) in 2011 found that judges' decisions can be influenced by extraneous factors such as the time of day. Specifically, the study observed that judges were more likely to grant parole at the beginning of the day or after a meal break, with favorable rulings decreasing as the session progressed.
This pattern suggests that factors unrelated to the legal merits of a case, like mental fatigue or hunger, can affect judicial decision-making.
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1018033108
This is something I think is absolutely human as it is outrageous.