Basic emotion regulation ability
involves attending to and staying open to pleasant and unpleasant feelings, while more
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advanced ability involves engaging or detaching from an emotion depending on its perceived
utility in a situation. Monitoring and reflecting on one’s own emotions and those
of others (e.g., processing whether the emotion is typical, acceptable, or influential) also
represents more complex problem solving within this branch