The Science Of Inside Out: Movie Analysis

‘Inside Out’ was an adorable movie, that teaches children about emotions, but it does it in a very cute and different way. In the article, ‘The Science of ‘Inside Out’’, the author points out that the movie helps understand emotions, and that emotions help organize rational thinking and our social lives. In the article it states that “…emotions guide our perceptions of the world, our memories of the past and even our moral judgments of right and wrong…” and that the movie did show that, in a way (Keltner & Ekman, 2015). It helped show, also, that sadness is not a bad thing that it can sometimes help. According to the article, it ends up showing that sadness should not always be looked at a negative way, and that it is okay to be sad. The article ‘Brain Scientist: How Pixar’s ‘Inside Out’ Gets One Thing Deeply Wrong’ explains how the movie is completely off and it does not really explain much about how …show more content…
One supports the movie and how it teaches about emotions, while the other completely disagrees. In the first article, it is explained that the movie did a good job in explaining about emotions and how they work. It explains that is helps understand emotions and how emotions help us in our everyday lives. In ‘Child Regulation of Negative Emotions and Depressive Symptoms: The Moderating Role of Parental Emotion Socialization’ it is explained that parents have an influence on their children’s emotions. The study revealed that if parents are unsupportive with their child’s emotion, then they become angry. They need the attention from their parents, but if they do not get that attention on their emotions then the child can also become less comprehensive with sadness and anger. Children who do not have the support for the emotions, and “… a dysregulated, aggressive style of coping with negative emotions had a higher likelihood of experiencing depressive symptoms” (Sanders, Zeman, Poon, & Miller,