“Inside Out” is the story of an 11-year-old girl named Riley, the generally joyful daughter of two loving parents, who is struggling to cope with a difficult transition from Minnesota to San Francisco and the often unstable emotions of youth. The neat part of this movie is that us watching are invited to experience a conceptual version of Riley’s mind to better understand who she is and how she processes the world. Pixar got really creative to do this, we are introduced to Riley’s emotions, Joy, Sadness, Disgust, Anger and Fear, These emotions demonstrate what it might be like in the mind of an 11-year-old girl who struggles with having to move to a different city, away from her friends, away from her hockey league, and has a hard time pretending …show more content…
For the movie Pixar consulted Psychologist and scientist, Paul Eckman, is most known for his work with universal emotions as he traveled around the world and found that these were present in every culture and presented in the same way through the same facial expressions around the world. Eckman’s work has been used for psychology research, as well as for the US government. Which could explain why all but two of Eckman's universal emotions(surprise and contentment) were presented in the movie. However, the emotions used in the movie are ones we really have in real life and seem to be the core emotions used. How the emotions came from a headquarters was also pretty accurate this would be our limbic system. The limbic system small doughnut-shaped region that includes the amygdala, hippocampus, regions of the limbic cortex and the septal area. Together, these structures have been associated with multiple functions, including emotions, drives, long-term memory formation, behavior, and learning. There was no credit to the prefrontal cortex in the movie, it was as if she did not have a choice and she was at the mercy of whatever emotion pressed a button. In real life our prefrontal cortex can decide what we want to do with our