Hunger: A Strong Basic Drive that Controls Human Emotions

Many scientific researchers have proven that specific biologic basis exists for different basic drives. Hunger is controlled by the satiety and feeling centers. But there is a close relationship between basic drives and emotional drives. Pleasant emotions (happy, satisfaction, relaxation etc.) results if drives are satisfied. Unpleasant emotions (sad, anger, disgust, excitement etc.) results if drives are not satisfied. In the proposed work, the hunger and emotions, their relationship, identification and their analysis have been evaluated. Hunger is a primary biologic dependent drive that drives emotions. Hunger can lead to anger (negative emotion), which is dangerous than the drop in blood sugar level. Recently the word Hangry is included in oxford dictionary, which means bad tempered or irritable because of hungry. Hangry turn into negative emotion, which should be taken care immediately to avoid damages. In this paper, the EEG signals in hunger state and also after the food are acquired and analysed. The results shows that, the alpha signals are dominating for the majority of the subjects. In few of the subjects’ beta signal is dominating. If alpha signal is dominating it results the emotion relaxation. If the beta signal is dominating, it results the emotion excitement. It is also observed that, there is noticeable deviation between signals collected before and after the food.