Inside Out Psychology
Inside Out is a movie based on how an individual’s five main core emotions interact in the brain, which is called the headquarters. Throughout the movie, it is shown how much emotions impact an individual’s memories and everyday life. Also, the movie shows different concepts of how everything goes on in the brain in a fun, kid friendly, easy understanding way. Inside Out is about the life of Riley who is 11-year-old and in her preteens (tweens) or middle childhood. And it follows her life inside her head and the outside and general point of view, when she moves from Minnesota to San Francisco, California. Inside Out is a great movie to show children about emotional development and regulation and it also has many developmental concepts illustrated
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Sadness would be considered a hero in this movie because Sadness was the villain in the eyes of Joy. Joy didn’t want Sadness to get involved with Riley’s emotions because Joy wanted to Riley to be Happy. And so naturally sadness is viewed as a negative thing. Also Joy thought that since Sadness can turn any memory into a sad memory, Joy didn’t want her touching or helping with Riley’s emotional regulation. But when Joy and Sadness got stuck in the memory dump, Joy lost hope of going back to headquarters and restoring things with Riley. Joy then realizes that Riley needs sadness and that Sadness is too important in Riley’s emotional development. Since Sadness was the one in control (Joy given her the controls) and returned the core memories back to where they belong, which does turn them sad. It made Riley confessed to her parents of how much she misses home, and her parents comfort her. The point where Sadness be considered as the hero in the movie is when Joy realized that Sadness isn’t just a negative emotion, but it also serves an important purpose of inducing empathy and prompting Riley to reach out when she was in of emotional
Sadness would be considered a hero in this movie because Sadness was the villain in the eyes of Joy. Joy didn’t want Sadness to get involved with Riley’s emotions because Joy wanted to Riley to be Happy. And so naturally sadness is viewed as a negative thing. Also Joy thought that since Sadness can turn any memory into a sad memory, Joy didn’t want her touching or helping with Riley’s emotional regulation. But when Joy and Sadness got stuck in the memory dump, Joy lost hope of going back to headquarters and restoring things with Riley. Joy then realizes that Riley needs sadness and that Sadness is too important in Riley’s emotional development. Since Sadness was the one in control (Joy given her the controls) and returned the core memories back to where they belong, which does turn them sad. It made Riley confessed to her parents of how much she misses home, and her parents comfort her. The point where Sadness be considered as the hero in the movie is when Joy realized that Sadness isn’t just a negative emotion, but it also serves an important purpose of inducing empathy and prompting Riley to reach out when she was in of emotional