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This paper studies how negative emotions like stress, anxiety, and boredom can affect unhealthy food consumption. Using the Wuhan lockdown as an external shock, we examine the changes in food consumption in a city that was not in lockdown. We applied the difference‐in‐differences method to a large scanner dataset from a retail monopoly in China. Our findings reveal that negative emotions induced by...