The Psychological Theories Of Individualism In Disney's Inside Out

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Inside out is one of my favorite Disney movies. Disney has figured out how to appeal to all age groups the movies’ content if fun and understanding for young children yet there are jokes and comments that adults can laugh at and enjoy as well. Their movies also have several levels of life lessons and stories. In Inside Out, children learn about different emotions and influences on personality while adults learn about emotional diversity and the intertwining of emotions that creates diversified humans. This movie was developed and produced with some of the top emotional researchers and contains several psychological elements such as belongingness theory, attachment style, cohesion and several aspects of roles. Belonginess theory states …show more content…

One aspect of individualism is that “a person’s attitudes and behavior is primarily caused by their personality traits rather than attributes of the situation” (Day slides of Inclusion and Identity). Riley experiences several hundreds of memories a day, periodically a memory is significant and becomes one of Riley’s core memories which then becomes an aspect of her personality which are represented by the different islands in Riley’s mind. This fulfils the social self in the individual and micro levels. When Riley acts out a characteristic or attribute of one of the islands, the island lights up and becomes active adding a new feature to Riley’s …show more content…

Social cohesion is displayed by the interactions and working together of emotions to create Riley’s life. Each emotion plays a specific role within the group and values their place amongst the group. Task cohesion is probably the most recognizable type of cohesion. Joy, Sadness, Anger, Disgust, and Fear are all working together to create Riley’s personality and ensure she is living a happy and adventurous life. Joy and Sadness also work together with Bing Bong to get back to headquarters from long term memory. They must find their way through Riley’s mind and different thought processes to reach their destination. Social cohesion and task cohesion together are also displayed in Riley’s mom and dad’s emotions. Riley’s mom’s emotions try to work with Riley’s dad’s emotions to understand the behavior change in Riley when she becomes upset and frustrated about her parents asking her about her day at school. Lastly, role theory or role differentiation is an important concept throughout the movie. Joy takes the task role as leader upon herself because she was the first emotion Riley encountered and Riley is more of a happy personality type person. Within each person’s mind a different emotion is recognized as the main emotion or leader depending on the type of person they are. Joy also proclaims a socioemotional (relational) role by encouraging and comforting Sadness when they are lost in long term

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