“…Over time, the function and meaning associated with the transitional object developed and deepened to provide both safe haven and secure base functions, that is, facilitate soothing but also stimulating the courage to begin to explore. The above example demonstrates how transitional object usage can draw on and integrate ideas from attachment theory (Bowlby, 1988; Feeney & Collins, 2015; Mikulincer & Shaver, 2007), social thermoregulation theory (IJzerman et al ., 2015; Ijzerman, Heine, Nagel, & Pronk, 2017), social touch (Maratos et al ., 2017; Morrison, 2016; Uvnäs‐Moberg, Handlin, & Petersson, 2015), and huggable communication mediums (Nakanishi, Sumioka, & Ishiguro, 2016; Takahashi et al ., 2017). Furthermore, this links back to Harlow’s (1958) work with infant monkeys in discovering the importance of soft tactile sensations accompanied by (physical) warmth in imparting the emotional security (i.e., safeness) to explore (Harlow & Suomi, 1970).…”