A closer look
Hot-cold empathy gap is a psychological dynamic in which people vastly underestimate the influence of visceral drives on their own attitudes, preferences, and behaviors. When you are calm and full, you smugly plan to eat a healthy salad for lunch and hit the gym after work, completely failing to anticipate how your starving, exhausted future self will actually feel. The moment your blood sugar drops, that rational planning vanishes, and you instantly order a massive greasy pizza without a second thought. You are practically two completely different people sharing the same body, constantly making overly ambitious promises that your primal, dopamine-addicted alter ego has absolutely zero intention of actually keeping when the time comes
