Interpersonal Communication In Mean Girls

Regina started to spent less time at home and more time reading in the woods. They move again to Rocky Point during the winter, once they get there Cookie leaves to be with new boyfriend Red Devil, leaving them alone, not registered for school, without food and without heat. Regina’s older sister Cherie get’s sick of pneumonia and social services took them away once again. After Cherie recovers Cookie regains custody and Karl has agreed to return if Cookie stops drinking, the day Cookie came home smelling like alcohol Karl left. That year they go visit their grandparents are rejected and for the next two months they are living in their mother’s car. They are left alone in the car at night when she goes with someone to spend the night. When they do find someplace to live they have to leave due to the neighbors noticing the children are not going to school, are again living in the car. A few months later both Cherie and Camille moveout. When their mom gets a job at a Deli live in a room upstairs from it. Cookie gets upset when Regina comes home late resulting with her mother throwing a pan when Camille intervene her mother pushes her down the stairs. She was taken to the hospital. The hospital staff did not ask about their mother or went deeper into the story they told. Regina knew her sisters were not going to stay she decided to get a job at age 11 at the same place her mother works in. Her mother would

The movie “Mean Girls” is all about conflict whether it was with the outside groups or each other. Conflict management is the way we engage in conflict and address disagreements. The movie “mean girls”, every character showed many conflict management styles. Two character who used many conflict management styles in the movie were Cady and Regina. Cady used the Avoidance style. The avoidance is deliberate decision to take no action when dealing with conflict. Avoidance conflict style is Basically being avoiding the conflict all together. Examples of when Cady used the avoidance style is when she eats her lunch in the bathroom because she could not find people to sit with. Another time she shows the avoidance style is when she did not tell her parents how the school was really going. She just ran to her room. She ignored the conflict all together. The opposite of Cady is Regina, the “queen bee” of the school. The conflict style Regina used was competition. Competition is someone thinking that the conflict has to go their way or the highway, is a win-lose situation. She showed this conflict style is when she told Aaron the rumors that Cady was stalking him and then got back with him. Even though she did

The movie Mean Girls is filled with characters that are easy to relate with, quotable lines, and a hilarious but realistic plot line. One other major thing that the movie has is concepts of the development that occurs during late adolescences including social, emotional, and cognitive development. Mean Girls is about a girl named Cady that is attending a public high school for the first time after being home schooled in Africa for all of her life. She knows nothing of the American teenage culture or customs or about the public school system. During her first week of school Cady becomes friends with two people in one of her classes named Janis and Damien, who unbeknownst to her are a part of the

Regina is the definition of a drama queen. She does not have much of a relationship with her younger sister or either of her parents; however, they give her everything her heart desires. Her mother tries to be

Mean Girls is about a girl named Cady who joins an elite social group at her new school known as the Plastics. While socializing with the Plastics, Cady develops a new, mean girl, personality and ends up sabotaging the group’s leader, Regina, and becomes the new leader of the Plastics. Regina retaliates by spreading the burn book, a book the Plastics filled with insults and gossip about other students, around the school leading to a riot and Cady takes the blame. Cady realizes that her new personality is wrong and apologizes to the school, makes amends with her old friends, and forms a truce with Plastics who disband and become regular students (Mean Girls, 2004).

Regina George’s friend group is comprised of Karen and Gretchen. Their friendship is difficult at times. They share secrets among each other, for example the burn book is a secret between the girls. When Cady is included into the friend group she is then entrusted with the group’s secrets. This group of “Plastics” are friends by choice and always ask for each other’s

The teen comedy Mean Girls, directed by Mark Waters, welcomes the protagonist (Cady Heron) into the stereotypical high school setting after being raised in Africa for all of her educational path. Cady, never being in a public-school setting, comes across the Plastics: Regina George (unspoken leader), Gretchen Wieners (gossip queen), and Karen Smith (the stupid, clueless one), who are at the top of the social pyramid. Befriended by the girls, Cady is left to decide whether or not she belongs in this clique or if her place exists in a different one. The use of satirist and comedic scenes throughout the film show the different sexist lenses and stereotypes that women are viewed with.

The movie Mean Girls shows examples of many social-psychological principals. Three of the major social-psychological principals depicted in Mean Girls are prejudice, discrimination, and conformity. According to Social Psychology and Human Nature textbook, written by Baumeister and Bushman, prejudice is a negative feeling toward an individual bases solely on his or her membership in a particular group. Discrimination is unequal treatment of different people based on the groups or categories to which they belong. Lastly, conformity is defined as getting along with the crowd.

The scene that best represents this idea is where the Plastics are at the Old Orchard Mall when they see that Jason and Taylor hanging out. This is when Regina steps up for her cliques and decides to hurt Taylor’s reputation for hanging out with Jason because Jason should only be with Plastics. So, she could keep the status and power of Plastics. Following that event, the Plastics and Cady go over at Regina’s house where Cady meets Regina’s abnormal mother. They go to Regina’s room and this is when the Plastics judge their bodies while looking at themselves in the mirror and Cady seems to be shocked by the number of flaws they point out in their selves. At this point, the camera shows the social distance between Cady and the Plastics separating Cady from the Plastics as Cady finds it hard to believe that perfect girls like the Plastics can find flaws in them.

The story begins when Cady meets two friends, Janis and Damien, who show Cady the ways of high school. This is a very normal way in reality and most would not think much of it. Unconsciously, Freud would say, that there is some sort of motive behind this behavior and that there is no possible way that there doing it just to be nice. But as the story goes on we do find out that Janis used to be best friends with Regina (queen bee of “the plastics”) and that their friendship ended due to Regina spreading a rumor that Janis was a lesbian. When Cady is asked by Regina to hang out she is very hesitant to do so and tells Janis what is happening. Janis gets overly excited and instantly her id, the pleasure seeking principle, of her behavior jumps into play causing her to completely ignore

The Breakfast Club is a movie that was directed by John Hughes, and was released in the spring of 1985. It is about five teenagers from different worlds, who all come together on a Saturday for detention. The movie is filled with a multitude of scenes that may apply to many of the course concepts found in Interpersonal Communication.

Ian Parker believes that Cady felt the need the obey Regina George because her fear of what the outcome might have been if she didn’t obey. Ian Parker mentions the Holocaust and how the Nazi crimes “had been committed by people obeying orders…” and can be thought of as “ordinary” people (97). He claims the Holocaust crimes were only carried out since the Nazis only feared what the outcome would’ve been if they were to not obey. Parker would describe Cady’s obedience towards a Regina a result of Cady’s internal fear of what Regina may do to her if she were to not obey. Erich Fromm claims that people must disobey in order to be more individualistic. Fromm would explain Cady going behind her first highschool friend, Janis’, back through the story of Adam and Eve. Fromm describes Adam and Eve as a mythological story in which Adam and Eve lived in harmony with nature but decided to branch off and “cut the umbilical cord” in order to become more independent (124). So according to Fromm, Cady went behind Janis’ back because of her desire to loosen ties with Janis and become more individualistic. While these authors stem their claims from different pastimes, they both include real world examples to further analyze

Regina’s “flawless” appearance established her power among other girls. Among high school girls, power is stereotypically established through looks. As shown in Mean Girls, girls will look up the person they feel has the ideal appearance. The random comments said about Regina indicate that she is idolized by many of the girls attending North Shore High School. Other girls know everything about her, because they want to be just like her. This entrenches Regina’s position at the school.

The last psychological perspective of psychology to compare “Mean Girls” to is the behaviorist approach. This approach emphasizes the importance of environmental and situational determinants of behavior. Simply because of the new environment that Cady is thrust into her entire behavior is changed. She acts completely unlike her normal self, adapting and becoming an expert at backstabbing and manipulating. Through her manipulation she learns to control everyone around her, because according to this theory people and situations influence each other

It was going good until Regina decided to speak to Aaron at the Halloween party and lied to him saying that Cady was crazy and obsessed with him, here are some examples “I know she's kind of socially retarded and weird, but she's my friend, so just promise me you won't make fun of her.” “She's like a little girl. She, like, writes all over her notebook, "Mrs. Aaron Samuels." And she made this T-shirt that says "I heart Aaron" and she wears it under all her clothes.” And “And OK, look, I'm not saying she's a stalker, but she saved this Kleenex you used and she said she's going do some kind of African voodoo with it to make you like her.” Regina then kissed them, after all these lies Aaron became a bit freaked out (but we can tell he likes Cady) and starts dating Regina. Aaron offers to tutor Cady afterschool and agrees to not tell Regina just in case she’d be mad. While tutoring they kiss and then breakaway because he doesn’t find it fair for Regina. Cady has a huge party and lots of people went including Aaron. When Aaron finds himself upstairs in Cady’s room he stares at a photo of Cady when she was younger on an elephant. Aaron smiles helplessly and a song starts playing. Now that everything in the break into three is done, Aaron smiles when Cady is going to try something new and not talk behind anyone’s back and when she gets a 98 in a math test Aaron says “Welcome back nerd” with a smile. It was clear that