But Danziger found something quite different: if the case was assessed by a judge just after he had eaten breakfast, the prisoner had a 65 per cent chance of getting parole. But as time passed through the morning, and the judges got hungry, the chances of parole gradually diminished to zero. Only after the judges had taken a break to eat did the odds shoot back up to 65 per cent, only to decrease back to 0 over the course of the afternoon.
