Since the original study, the term has morphed to encompass a stream of research concerned with implications of hunger on economic and social behavior.
[3] Psychologist Daniël Lakens has argued that the size of the effect in the original study is impossibly large.
[5] More recent studies show that certain legal decisions can get more lenient with increasing case ordering, which might be caused by a direction-of-comparison mechanism rather than decision-makers' fatigue.
[6] Interventions of AI and algorithms in the court such as COMPAS software are usually motivated by the hungry judge effect.
The hungry judge effect was thought to predict greater human kindness after the break of the Ramadan fast.