Emotions In Disney Pixar's Film 'Inside Out'

Improved Essays
Emotions have a major effect on an individual’s personality and memories. Emotions also affect our relationships and abilities to adapt to changes in our environment. Each of our emotions affect each other and how they mix to produce our reactions. These are just some of the important lessons learned in Disney Pixar’s film Inside Out. In this movie, film viewers are able to see how each emotion has its own response and how different emotions work together to create the people we are. During Inside Out, Sadness tries to express herself multiple times, but Joy prevented this with many different attempts, including the circle of sadness. This is not actually helpful to Riley because both sadness and joy are needed to fully experience emotions. …show more content…
My first personality island is aquatic island. Aquatic island is probably the most significant because a lot of my core memories come from being around the water. I started competitive swim team at age four and my love for the sport continued to progress until I was fourteen when I decided to moved, but me for the water had only begun. I have some many memories from swim team, everything from traveling to meets to intense practices. After I ended swim team, I found out I had a passion for crew. I participated in rowing through all of high school and loved every minute of being in a shell. In relationships, aquatic island taught me how to be independent, while also work with others to reach a common goal. It also reinforced the importance of hard work because relationships are not always easy. My second personality island is summer camp island because I also have a lot of core memories from my time at summer camp as a child. I have been attending the same summer camp since I was eight years old and have attended every summer since. At camp, I was given the opportunity to build lifelong friendships, explore the outdoors and build my confidence. This island helped me to build my relationships because while at camp, I interacted with many different types of people and it made me more aware of how to work in a

Related Documents

  • Improved Essays

    Psychology allows people to analyze different parts of cognitive thinking and human behavior. While these process are important to understand humans, they also aid in helping Christians understand how God created us. There are many psychological processes that help deepen understanding of God, but a specific aspect of psychology that can be analyzed is emotional regulation. Scientifically, emotions are positive or negative experiences that are associated with a particular pattern of physiological activity (316). One can look back on their own life and think of times where they were very happy and times where they were very sad.…

    • 787 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Inside Out Ap Psychology

    • 612 Words
    • 3 Pages

    Inside Out A movie “inside out” by pete docter is about how five emotions grapple the control of an 11 year old girl. I realised after watching the movie it's much more than a kids movie. It demonstrates how our mines worked by different types of emotions in this movie, the girl mind was controlled by anger, disgust, fear, sadness and joy. This emotions and many more show how we act and what we show. It shows us that we tend to deal with our emotions that we have experienced by avoiding the bad feelings and the bad problems.…

    • 612 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Power Of Pathos

    • 753 Words
    • 4 Pages

    The Power of Pathos In the words of Vincent Van Goh, “Let’s not forget that the little emotions are the great captains of our lives and we obey them without realizing it” (Guillemets). Emotions guide people through life like a compass in a similar fashion to how a compass guides a sailor on his voyage. This emotional compass leads us in the path of an ultimately unknown yet assumed destination in life and we follow it blindly every day. In the good times and the bad, emotional experiences and relationships tend to be more memorable and important to people than those with less emotional connections.…

    • 753 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    I believe Joy is the main character, or controller of Riley's emotions because she conducts all of Riley’s moves and feelings. The other emotions: Anger, Sadness, Disgust, and Fear, did not know how they could help Riley in anyway, leading Joy to be the one in charge of maintaining Riley’s happiness. Although the movie puts most of the emphasize on Joy, her subordinate emotions play a big role, as well. When Joy and Sadness are not able to get back to headquarters, they try their very best to keep Riley in place, especially during this vital time in her life. Joy is my favorite character because of her determination to keep Riley as happy as she can be.…

    • 841 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Inside Out: Movie Analysis

    • 1226 Words
    • 5 Pages

    Inside Out is a children’s movie with five different emotions as main characters. Throughout the movie, these emotions run a little girl’s life and how she reacts to events that happen throughout her life. The five emotions names are Joy, Sadness, Fear, Anger, and Disgust. Riley, the girl these emotions control, reacts differently to each one in charge of the head panel. Developmental psychology at the middle-aged kids stage studies how middle-aged kids function and grow.…

    • 1226 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Inside Out Theory

    • 1910 Words
    • 8 Pages

    The first of these theories is the James Lange Theory. The basic idea of the James Lange Theory is that once an event is processed in our minds, then we feel an emotion that correlates with the event to allow our mind to reason (Myers 464). An example of this theory in the movie Inside Out is when Riley is sitting down having dinner with her family in their new house in California and she has already lost Joy, her driving emotion in life. When she is asked a question by her mother that she would have normally wanted to talk about she sits there quietly for a second processing the question (the arousal). Because Joy is no longer in her head, disgust tries to respond to the question as joy would but comes off very rude and abrasive (the expressive behavior).…

    • 1910 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Depression In Inside Out

    • 1155 Words
    • 5 Pages

    I have seen the movie Inside Out a couple of times now and every time I watch it, the signs of depression given off by the main character Riley become more prevalent. Her family moved from Minnesota to San Francisco due to her father changing jobs. She was not very excited about the move but was forced to start a new life with her family. She was unable to play hockey with her old team and had to attend a new high school. The point of view of the movie is from inside Riley’s head.…

    • 1155 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai tells the story of a 10 year old girl name Kim Hà who was forced to seek asylum in America with her family due to the Vietnam War in the form of free verse poems. Hà holds onto a stand of hope as her country is torn into two. Although she continuously wishes that the war will end, she understands the danger her and her family in. For this reason, her mother makes the decision to flee from their home in Vietnam to America to find asylum and the family struggles to deal with the sudden change in her life. Like the title, Hà’s life is turned inside out, but she manages to find her home again.…

    • 1139 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Riley is 11 years old. According to Erikson’s psychosocial development stages, she is determining her industry vs. inferiority. Children in this stage typically learn independence, or in other words, how to do things on their own. Teachers begin to take an important role in the child’s life, since they teach the child specific skills. In the movie, Riley’s new teacher asks her to perform a task, more specifically, to stand up and talk about her life before she moved.…

    • 1258 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Do you have a favorite place? I know I have a favorite place it is SeaWorld because people are so joyful there and it is a really pleasant place to go to if you need to go on a vacation this spring break or this summer. Now I will be talking about their activities there what you could do there when you go there you want to. I would also talk about the appearance like how it looks and more. Mostly but not least I will be talking about their food like what they eat in Florida or do they eat the same food like we already do now.…

    • 737 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The emotions I feel most often are happiness and sadness. The glowing balls or “core memories” are made by significant memories or events. My “core memories” are saying goodbye to my family at the airport in Vietnam, spending the summer and winter vacations by traveling different states and counties, and my first day of kindergarten.…

    • 307 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Inside Out is a film that is about one main character, Riley. The film shows us how from the time of Riley’s birth until eleven years of age, how her emotions change as the older she gets. The first emotion that Riley is born with is Joy. Joy is always happy, and looks to the brighter side of anything negative. Next came sadness.…

    • 1656 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The inspiration behind the main characters of Inside Out, a Disney Pixar film, was found in Paul Ekman’s study of emotions. Ekman is an expert psychologist in the study of emotions and deception. He created the theory of Six Basic Emotions, which identified that people have “six basic emotions; anger, fear, happiness, surprise, sadness, and disgust” (Betancourt Lopez, 2017). The Six Basic Emotions theory is clearly used throughout the film in the form of five prominent characters whom represent different basic emotions. Instead of the Six Basic Emotions all being represented, Disney Pixar created the following characters: Joy (a combination of Happiness and Surprise), Sadness, Fear, Disgust, and Anger.…

    • 730 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Once Riley was asleep, the emotions moved the memories to long term and therefore, their work day was over. Throughout the textbook and also through the lectures in class, we learned that sleep is important for memory consolidation. “Inside Out” illustrates the process quite well in the movie and highlights the importance of sleeping during the consolidation…

    • 970 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    A psychologist named Paul Eckman did a study of universal emotions and found that there is a set of six emotions that are recognized by humans regardless of region, culture, or age. As humans, we express and recognize these emotions (happiness, anger, fear, envy, sadness, and surprise) the same way. “Inside Out” covers five of these six emotions. These emotions let us know when to be empathetic, excited, and even laugh. Thinking back to the humanism perspective and one of the basic assumptions being that humans are born trusting other humans, the movie captures this perfectly by also showing the emotions of Riley’s parents as well.…

    • 1180 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays