Yours, Mine, and Ours (2005) is a movie about two drastically different families combining. Frank Beardsley, an officer in the Coast Guard, has been left with eight children after the death of his wife. Helen North has also suffered the loss of her first spouse and has ten children. Frank and Helen dated in high school and run into each other at their reunion, fall in love again, and marry. After the sudden marriage, they move their families into one large home and begin life together. Unfortunately, the Beardsley children and North children do not get along. After much conflict, the kids come up with a plan that will culminate in their parents divorcing. In the process of carrying out their plan, they end up gaining respect for one another.
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This framework essentially states that people are likely to behave in ways that will result in few costs and great gains. The cost and rewards concept illustrates the same idea, involving a comparison level in which people determine the rewards they believe are due to them based on the costs they must endure. In addition to the comparison level, there is equity, meaning that people endure costs in order to gain rewards proportional to their efforts. In other words people are not likely to endure extensive stress in order to gain an end for which they will not receive an equal or superior reward. In the movie this concept is expressed when all of the kids gather together and create a plan to unite to cause commotion in an effort to make their parents fight. The children initially have no interest in working together or cooperating, but they are willing to start once they realize that it could result in breaking their parents apart, causing them to be two separate families as in the past. In this case the cost is that the kids are required to start working together and cooperating, but the reward is that they will be two separate families and have their former lives restored. There is a comparison level here in which the children’s projected idea of the reward is superior to any possible rewards that could result from attempting to just cooperate and accept living together forever. In addition, the reward is proportional to the costs. They are willing to risk all punishments for their actions initially because in the long run they know that they will be happier after the parents have split
This framework essentially states that people are likely to behave in ways that will result in few costs and great gains. The cost and rewards concept illustrates the same idea, involving a comparison level in which people determine the rewards they believe are due to them based on the costs they must endure. In addition to the comparison level, there is equity, meaning that people endure costs in order to gain rewards proportional to their efforts. In other words people are not likely to endure extensive stress in order to gain an end for which they will not receive an equal or superior reward. In the movie this concept is expressed when all of the kids gather together and create a plan to unite to cause commotion in an effort to make their parents fight. The children initially have no interest in working together or cooperating, but they are willing to start once they realize that it could result in breaking their parents apart, causing them to be two separate families as in the past. In this case the cost is that the kids are required to start working together and cooperating, but the reward is that they will be two separate families and have their former lives restored. There is a comparison level here in which the children’s projected idea of the reward is superior to any possible rewards that could result from attempting to just cooperate and accept living together forever. In addition, the reward is proportional to the costs. They are willing to risk all punishments for their actions initially because in the long run they know that they will be happier after the parents have split