The Role Of Joy And Sadness In Riley's Long Term Memory

Each named emotion expresses Riley’s feelings after seeing the world through her eyes on a big projection screen. When something whens that would give Riley joy, the character, Joy, has the job to make Riley feel that way. The Two Factor theory explains we feel an emotion by first coming in contact with the stimulus, become physically aroused by it and cognitively label the feeling we have is an emotion, and then experience the emotion. This lines up very closely with the process of the characters choosing how to make Riley feel. They witness the stimulus RIley is in contact with, the named emotion whose job is producing that emotion comes forward to make themself known, and finally she feels that

One of the first conflict styles Joy uses in the beginning of the movie is competing. This occurs when one person completes their goals and the other does not. Adler and Proctor stated (2011), "This win-lose approach to conflict involves high concern for self and low concern for others... competition seeks to resolve conflicts "my way" (page 386). In the movie when Joy comes in contact with a conflict she tends to react the way she sees fit. When sadness tries to touch one of Riley's core memories Joy immediately pushes her away and makes her turn her attention to something else so that she won't be in the way. By being pushed away this causes Sadness to be the losing party because she is not able to achieve her goal of having more input in Riley's

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

When Riley is faced with the major problem of her core memories, starting to shut down she starts to truly lose herself. Riley’s core memories fuel five islands that make up her personality, Hockey island, Honesty island, Friendship island, Family island, and Goofball island. Her core memories are based on times in her life that were significant to her, without them she does not really know who she is. Depression is the most common Mental illness, twentysix percent of adult people in the United States are diagnosed with it ("Mental Health Basics"). This movie does a really nice job of showing how irritable and dark a person can be when they are depressed. In the movie there is a part where Riley freaks out at her dad, getting mad, when all he did was ask how her day was at school. Throughout the movie she turns from a happy-loving girl to a sad quiet one. Depression is not when people find sadness when they are sad but find sadness when they are happy, I think this is perfectly portrayed in the movie. For example, Riley remembers a time on their trip where her father forgot to put the car in park and it rolled down the hill, at first she thought it was such a funny memory, but as she thought of it more she became sad because of how mad her father was about the

As in life, each of the emotions in Riley’s headquarters, her mind, has a purpose or job. Joy’s job is to make sure Riley remains happy and tries to find the fun in every situation. She also seems to be the emotion who directs the other emotions, the one in charge. Joy accepts each challenge as an opportunity to turn the situation into a happy memory. She tries very hard to keep Sadness away from Riley’s happy memories and turning them into a sad memory. Our textbook states happiness as progressing toward the realization of a goal. (Feist, 2015, p. 419) Joy’s attitude towards life goes

This character keeps touching memories and making them sad causing Riley more and more conflict, for example Riley calls a friend back in Minnesota to catch up, but gets very sad because she misses her home and sadness touches the memory inside Riley’s head. Having multiple sad events happen to Riley in a row she is constantly feeling sad, and becomes depressed. She attempts to solve all her problems by running away. She steals money from her Mom to pay for a bus ticket, and lies about where she is going. These are all examples of what extents someone will go to when they are depressed trying to find happiness again. Having too much sadness in one persons life can cause long-term affects; for example just like Riley regressed on the memory with her friend, this can happen later in adulthood causing her to become depressed yet again. This stresses the importance that memories have on young people, and how they can effect them later in life.

Lastly, this movie represents how short term memories collected during the day are converted into long term memories during the night. This process happens inside Riley’s complicated maze. Once those memories are recovered and retained, the memories that are related to them might differ or become modified in a way or the other. We can relate to that as when Sadness touches a gold colored happy memory and it turns into a blue tinted memory. Therefore, we might think that our memories are exact and precise, but we need to know that they are in fact transformable. Memories are not certainly accurate and we can never trust our memories.

At age eleven, Riley’s life is changed forever when she moves from their Minnesotan hometown to a run down apartment in San Francisco – making her emotions run crazy during this crazy situation. While running and then arguing about Rileys first day at a new school, Joy, and Sadness are sucked up the memory transport tube and into the outer parts of Riley’s long-term memory, forcing joy and

In the movie “Inside out” we discover how all the emotions try to steer the way to control the little girl “Riley” mind but one specific character by the name of “Joy” is basically the one in charge of them all and tries to take on more of the responsibility in situations. Throughout the movie something happens to Riley and her emotions start to really change and Joy doesn’t want to accept what is actually going on that Riley core memories are starting to fade away. As part of responding to the transgressions, Joy starts to discuss the situation with all the other emotions as to why things are failing to work and make Riley happy. As the movie comes along she realizes all her core memories are tearing down and her emotions are all over the

Riley runs away from his mother who claims to be his mother. The mom, Rebecca is concerned about Riley’s problem. She is crying thinking that he might of lost his memory. She chases after him in her car. As she is driving, she is calling the police to help her capture her son.

I think what makes the film distinctive and mesmerizing is that, unlike traditional Pixar films and their heart-wrenching montage, it’s not trying to make the audience feel sadness (think back to films like Bambi and Up). Alternately, it's cornerstone is how influential those feelings can be, and why feeling them is pivotal. It shows us that being sad, or sometimes not being entirely happy, is okay. I sobbed my eyes out watching Inside Out…twice. I wasn't necessarily moved by the character’s sorrow but because it was a film that acknowledged and validated mine. Inside Out doesn't claim to tell a narrative of major substance; it simply depicts what it's like to be a normal person learning to pilot the world. If you find that these qualities from the film are anything less than touching, you may just be inhuman. Joy has the last narration of the movie, undoubtably leaving us with a tremendous cliff-changer,“Riley is about to turn thirteen. What could possibly go

4.2 The forces and Riley’s actions that lead to coming of age theme in the film

This story is told through Riley’s emotions, joy, sadness, anger, fear, and disgust. Joy is the emotion that defines Riley, but joy is challenged when the family moves to San Francisco. It follows Riley’s journey developmentally from Riley-as-a-child to Riley-as-a-preteen (Doctor, 2015). Through out this journey of Riley’s, the movie exhibits many different psychological topics. The movie talks about how memories

Which memory will you value the most? The happiest one or the saddest one? No matter which memory you chose to value, you will always think about them both. The happiest memory for some people will probably something small to others, but mean the world to them. The saddest memory will always sit in the back of your mind. These memories will always affect the way you live your life. They will both bring back the emotion or emotions you felt while it was happening. They both will make you think twice about every decision. These thoughts are on the opposite ends of a spectrum and have many differences, they have many similarities.

These characters include Sadness, Joy, Anger, Fear, and disgust. Each of these main characters express relating physical appearances and characteristics in color, clothing, and facial expression. An article titled “The Science of ‘Inside Out’” explains, “Sadness is seen as a drag, a sluggish character that Joy literally has to drag around through Riley’s mind. In fact, studies find that sadness is associated with elevated physiological arousal, activating the body to respond to loss. And in the film, Sadness is frumpy and off-putting. More often in real life, one person’s sadness pulls other people in to comfort and help” (Keltner and Ekman 1). In other words, when people show obvious signs of sadness, bystanders are more likely to react in a comforting way. Outwardly expressing all emotions at an appropriate time will signal to the people you love that you need help dealing with these emotions. When Riley shows up to her house after running away and cries to her parents, her parent immediately reach out to her. In the same article, it is revealed, “‘Inside Out’ offers a new approach to sadness. Its central insight: Embrace sadness, let it unfold, engage patiently with a preteen’s emotional struggles. Sadness will clarify what has been lost (childhood) and move the family toward what is to be gained: the foundations of new identities, for children and parents alike”