BBC Sounds, Music, Radio Podcasts. Zand, begin the app. Begin this bit. You're starting. Just get on with it. Why you so cranky? I'm not cranky. Have you had breakfast? You haven't. Yes, I have had breakfast. No, you haven't, Chris. I have. You made breakfast for the kids, then you got on your bike and you came here, and all you've had this morning... I had a pint of black coffee.

It's a pint of black coffee. Is a pint of black coffee, I knew it. I think someone, Chris, might be a little hangary. Well, funnly enough, Zand. I'm not hungry. However, in today's daily dose, we are returning to our

episode on hangar with psychologist Professor Viren Swami, and Viren explained why hangar's real

and how we might deal with it. Do you want me to get you a banana?

Is it always the case that when we are hungry, we are all more prone to being angry, or is there a little bit more nuance to it?

So I think there are two ways of answering that is it real question?

The first is if it occurs in human populations, then it's real.

And to the extent that people have at least demonstrated symptoms of

anger, they are angry when they're hungry, then you have to say it's real. The slightly different

version of answering or asking that question is to say, is there scientific evidence to show

that hanger is real? So we've conducted research to show that it does actually exist outside the lab. You can demonstrate that hangar is real. So we've conducted research to show that it does actually exist outside

the lab. You can demonstrate that hunger is a real phenomenon. The qualification, though,

is that it's not a necessary outcome of hunger. So depending on how you interpret information

in your environment, you may become hungry if you're hungry. In other occasions,

if the stimuli in your environment are pleasant and if they're not necessarily triggering a negative

reaction in you, then simply being hungry is not going to necessarily lead to aggression or

irritability. A lot of times we don't recognize that we are being angry, and we may not even recognize

that anything's happening, anything's different.

But until someone places that label on us to say there's something that's not quite right

about you, you don't necessarily process those emotions.

And we call that affect labeling.

When you do that yourself, it simply means saying, I am angry right now,

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