Heroic Emotions: A Psychological Analysis Of Sadness

The train comes to the headquarters at times, here we see the emotions and thoughts connecting. Riley's emotions effect how how she views her thought. Also, another example is sadness touching the memories making Riley think they are sad instead of the original happy thoughts.

The film Inside Out tells the story of a young girl named Riley and her changing emotions after she is forced to move from her home town in Minnesota to San Fransico for her father’s job. The story is told from the perspective of her five emotions. Riley’s emotions are led by Joy, who attempts to guide her through the stressful event. Although Joy puts forth great effort, Sadness takes over. When trying to protect Riley’s core memories from Sadness, Joy is swept from headquarters through the dump tube and Sadness follows. With Joy and Sadness gone, Anger, Fear, and Disgust are the only emotions left in headquarters; therefore, Riley cannot be happy or sad. Because Joy and Sadness are absent, Riley’s personality islands diminish one by one. Riley fights with her family, pushes away from her friends back home, and loses interest in hockey. As Joy and Sadness navigate through Riley’s brain in search of a way back to headquarters, they encounter many obsticles. Back in headquarters, Anger, Fear, and Disgust place the idea of running away into Riley’s head. Joy witnesses the transformation of a sad memory into a happy memory, and finally realizes the importance of all emotions, including Sadness. With the help of Bing Bong, Riley’s imaginary friend, Joy and Sadness find their way back to headquarters and are able to stop Riley from running away. An update in headquarters takes place, and more personality islands develop. Joy learns to accept the

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.

It teaches people that sadness allows them to unfold, engage patiently, especially for preteens and teenagers with emotional struggles. It is important that we experience sadness, and one of our physiological responses is tears. When we cry, it cues others around us that we need help, and thus we can be empathised. When others empathise us, our hearts feel warm, and this is caused by the production of oxytocin (love hormone). Sadness creates bonds, and when we share it, a healing effect can be caused. Sadness is vital in the film because it allows Riley to recognize the changes that she is going through (moving to a new town) and her

Now, this isn’t really an emotion, but it shows that she is emotionally unstable. The first mentions of linoleum blacks really help to capture this idea well. Linoleum is a new medium Melinda is trying to use for her tree where you can’t correct mistakes, and everything is in-place once it’s there (Anderson 54). The author makes it seem like she is just talking about art (and she definitely is accounting for this too), but she is also talking about Melinda directly. Every step Mel akes is never forgotten in her mind; everything she does will make her even more hated by others. As a result of this, Melinda will become even more scared to move on, just like how she won’t start on the linoleum block. Again, the idea that Melinda’s craft and vibes are strongly connect pulls though. Mel later writes about constantly trying to redraw a tree branch in Mr. Neck’s class; she complains that she has no was to make the tree come alive (Anderson 55). This is both the same problem she was having with linoleum blocks and her life: she has no way to move on; she is insane. Clearly, if there are two ways to show this fact about Mellida, there must be some connection,

As the story progresses, Riley and her family move from Minnesota to San Francisco, where Riley experiences culture shock. She and her family find their home to be more than a bit worn and dismal. To make matters worse, their furniture has become lost in the cross-country move, and Riley’s father is experiencing stress and anxiety in his job at a startup firm. Riley is uncomfortable at her new school and in her new social environment as a whole. Riley’s mother urges her to keep smiling, stay happy, and be there for her father. At first the emotions are able work together, keeping Riley in harmony. However, Sadness begins to cloud Riley’s memories and feelings and override her balanced personality. She tells Joy, “Something’s wrong with me. I think I’m having a breakdown.” Joy attempts to take Sadness out of

As the film begins, it is clear from the start that the emotions care a great deal for Riley. As the primary emotion, Joy takes it upon herself to be the leader of the group and does everything in her power to make sure every moment of Riley’s day is a happy one. Sadness, voiced by Phyllis Smith, is not sure of her purpose in Riley’s mind, so her fellow emotions attempt to keep her involvement to a minimum, in fear of putting a damper on Riley’s mood. The rest of the emotions, Anger (Lewis Black), Disgust (Mindy Kaling), and Fear (Bill Hader), keep Riley’s life fair, poison free, physically and socially, and safe, respectively (Inside Out). A stand out character who appears is Bing Bong, voiced by Richard Kind, Riley’s imaginary friend from when she was a

Sadness is a natural human emotion that everyone, at some point their life, has experienced. It is a simple reaction to different life changes and events that individuals go through in a variety of different ways. The Webster’s definition of being sad is “affected with or expressive of grief or unhappiness” which implies that there are various types of sadnesses and reasons to be sad. Here are just a few.

Throughout history, heroism and the idea of heroic imagination has shifted in ideals. “Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story”(John Barth). Everyone can be a hero by today’s ideology. History shows that heroes show up in the most unlikely of places. Today however, “heroes” are everywhere. Although true heroes do exist in contemporary society, heroic imagination and heroic standards are slowly dying, perhaps past salvageability. Many however, do believe it can be saved and are taking actions to do so.

Joy is also kind of the leader of the team. Sadness is the emotion that makes Riley sad. She was the second emotion to be created in Riley's head . She is always sad so that's why she represented by the color blue . Anger is the emotion that makes Riley Angry.

It also says that there are differences among scientists as to kinds of determinism. The different kinds of determinism are indeterminism, predestination, and fatalism. The most tendency today is to reject mechanical determinism. Determinism is being controlled by natural laws. Riley is being controlled by her five emotions, but in the clip we watched two emotions, which are joy and sadness leave the headquarters because they get sucked up into a tube and takes them to Riley’s long-term memory. So, Riley is left with three emotions, which are anger, disgust, and fear and they have to help Riley out throughout a few days by themselves. Those three emotions are working for the first time without Joy because Joy is the one who leads them to do what they have to do in order for Riley to get through her day. So, anger, disgust, and fear have to help Riley out without the help of

The five emotions used in this movie are in fact the 5 of the 6 (the 6th one being surprise) scientifically validated universal emotions. Another concept displayed in this movie includes the conversion of short to long-term memory. When a memory is seen as relevant enough to us, or if the memory has been repeated enough times, the brains messengers, glutamate, and dopamine ensure the long term encoding of that memory. Each night when Riley went to sleep the “headquarters” and then all the memories she makes get sucked up through a vacuum tube and get sent to the long-term memories. While obviously our memories aren’t colored balls the principle is completely sound.

Notice all the different faces; which hold brown eyes, hazel eyes, green eyes, perched noses, flat noses, small mouths, large mouths, piercings, dimples, and even scars. All these faces, whether they’re smiling or frowning, hold all types of different backgrounds. All these faces holding so many stories that could be fit into a book, filling it from cover to cover. Some of these stories can be as happy as a puppy getting a treat. However,some can be as sad as a tree droops due to the lack of nutrients, or as the sky cries on a gloomy day. A myriad of these stories define these faces, especially those depressing stories that make your heartache until it seems to have crippled into a scrap. People tend to let those depressing stories define who they are negatively. However, these heart-wrenching stories can be transformed into something beautiful and heartwarming. The question that may be running through your head is, how? How can one flip the switch to turn off these negative thoughts, and replace them with positive thoughts? The answer to that is optimism.

Firstly, physiological change is when, “a person experiences strong emotions, many bodily changes occur (Alder, 237).” These bodily changes could be warmth, heartbeat, blood pressure, adrenaline, and can even affect the digestive system. When happiness is experienced the blood pumps faster and warms the entire body. However, sadness has almost the opposite reaction, causing the body’s limbs to cool. When Mary told me the news, I remember my mind and heart racing, this could’ve been the blood rushing to my torso and head.

I was raised in churches; like most kids I knew. So when my first marriage ended in divorce after only a year, when I was 19 years old, many in my family and community looked down on me for not being married. I was always told by my grandparents and preachers that I would only be happy as an adult if I was married, took care of my husband, and had kids that I raised to be god fearing Christians as well, “The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights” (The Holy Bible: New International Version, 1 Cori. 1-40).