Secure attachment enables individuals to auto-regulate their emotions when alone and engage in interactive regulation with others during stress or for sharing joy.

“the key here is emotional regulation again and again it's implicit emotion regulation um one of the tenets uh Central tenets of my ideas here is that first of all there has been too much of an emphasis on the downregulation of negative States you remember the original attachment Theory the secure base the baby would come back in a in a stress State she would downregulate the the negative States but really attachment is about the down regulation of negative States and the UPR regulation of positive States”