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Empathic Emotion Regulation (EER) refers to an interpersonal process in which an empathic response to another person’s emotional state is used to help regulate emotions within and across interaction partners. In nutritional psychology, EER has been proposed as a mechanism through which food offering can influence the emotional states of both the person providing food and the person receiving it.
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- Hamburg, M. E., Finkenauer, C., & Schuengel, C. (2014). Food for love: The role of food offering in empathic emotion regulation. Frontiers in Psychology, 5, Article 32. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00032 View source
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CNP (2026). Empathic Emotion Regulation (EER). In CNP Encyclopedia Editorial Board (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Nutritional Psychology. The Center for Nutritional Psychology.
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