I confess that I know very little of the Embraer but I do recall seeing a flight test in Flight International which remarked on the "requirement to use rudder to balance low speed turns". now, this sounds to me like a) no yaw damper, b) poor yaw damper c) dodgy design elsewhere.
Yaw damper helps to balance turns by countering slip (applying top rudder for you) allowing the rudder pedals to become little more than footrests in normal use.