Appetite is the process of hunger arising from learned associations between various cues for food and their consequences. It is one of the two processes of hunger, with the other being homeostatic hunger.
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The Center for Nutritional Psychology. (2025). Appetite. In Encyclopedia of Nutritional Psychology. The Center for Nutritional Psychology.
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