Difference between revisions of "Mean Girls Movie Project"

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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