A Psychological Analysis Of Lion King And Toy Story

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From the creators of Lion King and Toy Story comes a psychological journey following the five emotions of protagonist Riley’s mind: Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear, and Disgust, we take an animated look as we follow Riley on her daily life from boys, to moving, to sports, we focus on how theses emotions shape and impact her daily life to attempt to learn a little bit more about ourselves. Not only is this presented in an easy to follow format, presumably being the main audience is kids, the character development with each character is vital to the understanding and glimpse of the spectacular world of psychology.
What’s really prevailing about this film is how accurate it is to cognitive, developmental, and clinical psychology. The 5 emotions used …show more content…

Yellow is a high energy color that gives rise to optimism and assurance. The yellow wavelength is moderately long in length, with fundamentally stimulating characteristics. In this case the exposure to yellow is emotional, therefore one of, psychologically, the strongest colors. The right yellow will lift our spirits and our self-esteem; it is the color of confidence and optimism. Too much of it, or the wrong tone in relation to the other tones in a color scheme, can cause self-esteem to plummet, giving rise to fear and anxiety. And we this occur a lot in the human mind, with many feeling anxious when everything is going right. Joy is defined not only by the color of her character, but by her diligence of a personality, that, scientifically is the default emotion for all human beings and our train of …show more content…

Being the longest wavelength, red is a powerful color. Although not technically the most visible, it has the property of appearing to be nearer than it is and therefore it grabs our attention first. Its effect is physical; it stimulates us and raises the pulse rate, giving the impression of rapidly passing time. It relates to the masculine principle and can activate the "fight or flight" instinct common in situations where we react in a physical sense, rather than an emotional one. Red is strong, and very basic- simple with no subtlety. It is stimulating and lively, very friendly and at the same time, it can be perceived as challenging and aggressive. We often relate the color of fire to red and associate them both closely together. Demonstrated in the film, whenever Anger was too angry, his head would catch in an explosive fire, similar to that of a

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