Mean Girls Movie Project

AP Psychology Project

How Hollywood exploited or helped the field of psychology? Was the movie biased? Did it help the field of Psychology or did it hurt the field.

Brainstorm

• http://sitemaker.umich.edu/356.tran/media_contributions
• Cliques
• Stereotypes
  • Mean Girls enforces them
    • But shows their weaknesses
• Girls mean to each other
  • http://www.buffalo.edu/reporter/vol36/vol36n32/articles/Ostrov.html
• Review: http://www.slate.com/id/2099693/
• Journal study on Mean Girls: http://fap.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/16/4/405.pdf