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.

Although Mean Girls is a Hollywood movie, it gets its inspiration from real life. Like any good movie, it starts with real life and exaggerates it to tell a compelling story.

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
  • Psychology has followed Hollywood and confirmed it and explored it more