The Five Emotions In The Disney Film Inside Out

In her article “How Happy Are You and Why?,” Sonja Lyubomirsky argues that people have control over their own happiness. Lyubomirsky supports her claims with her interviews with happy people and scientific studies. Her purpose is to consider steps that people can take in order to become happier. She establishes an informal relationship with her audience of unhappy people.

Pixar’s film, Inside Out, addresses our relationship to our feelings in a sophisticated way for adults and kids to understand and enjoy. Joy, Anger, Disgust, Sadness, and Fear, the five emotions that dwell in the inner world of a young girl named Riley. Joy is the team leader and she displays compassion and demonstrates the aspect of her that permits her to be happy. Anger is very passionate about making sure things work out fairly for Riley. Disgust is highly opinionated and tries to protect her from poisonous situations whether physically or socially. Sadness was used to signal when Riley needed comfort and support. Finally, Fear, he is always on the lookout and I used to protect her. All five of the emotions contribute to build up Riley’s personality. She is upbeat, honest, cheerful, somewhat neurotic, etc.

Mark Kingwell, in his award winning book In Pursuit of Happiness, asserts that the pursuit of happiness is meaningful and that the benefits far outweigh the risks. In fact, Kingwell’s argument is centered on the idea that people who want to be happy will be happy if they would only pursue what is that brings them joy. For this reason, he disagrees with the idea that biology is the main indicator of a person’s happiness. The idea that “you are either happy or you’re not” (414). Though studies conducted by various universities and esteemed psychologists have reached the same conclusion. In a study conducted by Dr. Jerome Kagan, a prominent psychologist at Harvard University, he concludes that there is a clear connection between dopamine levels

Is happiness or subjective well-being just an occurrence, or does this observable circumstance have accountabilities beyond what is experienced by the person who perceives feeling happy? We all desire to be happy, but how is this achieved and sustained? Are there predetermining factors that play a role, such as our genetic make-up? The following essay will explore subjective well-being in general, as this is considered to be synonymous with happiness. An explanation will be given of both the model of architecture of sustainable happiness, and a clear definition of the biopsychosocial model. Throughout the essay, examples from the SKD228 module will be given as evidence of support with possible links to biological factors.

To a degree, our environments contribute to our personalities, but scientist have proven that we are born with some certain identity traits, meaning those traits lie in our DNA. Happiness is one of the personal trait that is passed down through our genes; the external experiences are limited that it can only influence to an extent.

Who likes to bring changes in their lives? Especially when one is settled so well in school and happy with the family and home with harmony. ‘Inside Out’ is the movie directed by, ‘Pete Docter’, about a 11-year old girl, ‘Riley’, who iss depressed about the fact that she had to move from Minesota to San Francisco. This movie is based on what’s going on inside Railey’s mind when she had to go through this phase of emotional disturbance.

Happiness is the only thing in this world that is neither measurable, profitable, nor tradeable. Despite this fact, it is still desperately sought by all. They want to have happiness, and want to know they have a lot of it. However happiness, like air or water, is a hard thing to grasp in one’s hand. It is intangible and nebulous. So how do people know if they have it? That is for them to decide. Generally, happiness has to do with an emotional and mental state of welfare that can be characterized through pleasant and positive emotion such as contentment and joy. Like beauty, happiness is indiscernible. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder similar to how happiness is in the mind of a human. Happiness can only be measured on an individual basis,

Insideout is a Disney movie about a young girl named Riley and how her inner emotions (with big personalities) balance each other out to keep Riley healthy and feeling like herself. The movie begins with Riley as a child and inside her head, Joy, Sadness, Fear, Anger, and Disgust. Riley is living her perfect life in Minnesota, with her friends, family, hockey, goofiness, and many more things that make Riley, Riley. In this life, her emotions (Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear, and Disgust) make memories. Her core memories, at the time, only consisted on happy memories. These core memories make islands, which are key aspects of Riley’s life. For example she has Friendship Island, Family Island, Hockey Island, and Goofy Island.

Newman and Randy J. Larsen’s article more than Stephen M. Schueller and Acacia C. Parks’. I believe we have some control over our happiness, but the exact amount is unknown. Without adding individual’s personal experiences and life events, there is no way to know how much of their happiness is, or is not, within their control. I do not believe there is any definite number that can be applied to everyone; undoubtedly there are individuals with life circumstances that cause lasting unhappiness, that cannot be waved away by short-lived pleasure. The claim that 40% of our happiness is controllable is misleading, and psychologists should instead study what causes the variations between people. “It is not accurate to claim that whatever portion of our happiness is not due to genetics and not due to as-of-yet carefully studied demographic variables is by default within our control” (Newman and Larsen). There are far too many personality and situational factors that take part in our happiness to make a broad statement like Schueller and Parks made. However, I do believe we have some sort of control over our happiness, some more than others. Possibly, without any outside factors everybody would ideally have control over 40% of their happiness. I used to get on social media and see posts made by my old high school friend whom I no longer associate with due to irreconcilable differences. Nonetheless, I missed the friendship we once had, and seeing

The person’s genetics and childhood or the person’s family and culture are things that influence a person’s happiness. Happiness is a mindset that is created by a person’s surroundings and their origins.

The term “happiness” is an extremely broad term and has been defined over a wide array of studies in such a variety of ways that it has been deemed “an unworkable term for science” by psychologist Martin Seligman (qtd. in Kovac). Instead of trying to study all of the different facets of happiness, most researchers choose to break it down into its constituent parts by using a more quantifiable method such as a test involving questions about self-worth, enjoyment of life, and positive affect (Fowler) or a more qualitative measure such as the physiology of smiles (Miles). This allows the researchers to better tailor the methodology to the objective of the study.

Emotion plays a very important role in the memory process. Before you can fully understand the role of emotion, you have to understand the memory process. There are three steps to the memory process, encoding, storage, and retrieval. If you do not fully understand the memory process, then it’ll be difficult to comprehend the role emotions play and the movie Inside Out, although it may be a kid’s movie, is a great way to develop a better understanding of the memory process. The movie Inside Out is about a pre-teen girl’s emotions; joy, sadness, anger, fear, and disgust, and how they all work together to help create her memories and get through life. Before I get ahead of myself, however, let’s talk about the memory process.

Happiness can be defined as pleasure, joy, exhilaration, bliss, contentedness, delight, enjoyment, and satisfaction. All these words mean the same thing yet can be very difficult to understand while it can be even more difficult to attain the full feeling behind these words. Many people think that having their cars, or skis, or whatever other material possessions they want will make them happy. Others believe there must be some sort of deeper connections in order to achieve true happiness. “The New Science of Happiness,” an article in Time Magazine by Claudia Wallis, argues that the largest contributing factor for one’s levels of happiness are feelings of gratitude and their ties to family and friends. However a peer-reviewed journal

Oftentimes, films intended for children are able to target a secondary audience: children’s parents. Children’s films frequently contain themes and concepts that children themselves cannot fully grasp. Disney Pixar’s 2015 film, Inside Out, is no different. Inside Out serves as an impressively accurate psychological representation of emotions in the preadolescent brain. In creating the film, writer and director Pete Docter consulted Dr. Paul Ekman, a psychological expert on emotion (Kelly, 2015). Earlier in his life, Dr. Ekman concluded that seven universal emotions exist (Kelly 2015). After this meeting, Pete Docter was prepared to create a film that personifies five of these universal emotions: Joy, Sadness, Fear, Disgust, and Anger. The story of Inside Out is told by these five emotions, living inside the protagonist, an eleven year old girl named Riley’s, mind. Inside Out gives life to numerous psychological theories, including the importance of emotional congruence in order for optimal mental health in the adolescent brain.

Is happiness good for your health? It is extensively recognized that mental factors might impact physical functioning and that psychological well-being works positively on physical health. This idea does not only live among supporters of holistic medicine, it also has a strong basis in academic psychology. It is said that happiness helps to heal the sick, and that it defends people in good healthy against getting ill. As we can see, nowadays, people have significant interest in how happiness works on us, so there are some questions to understand it: What are the Effects of happiness on physical health? How could happiness protect physical health? What are the Implications for preventive health care?