Sunday, November 6, 2011
Legally Blonde: Red, White, and Blonde - Personality and Perception
Topic - Personality and Perception
Movie - Legally Blonde: Red, White, and Blonde
Movie Summary - Elle Woods goes to Washington to get a ban on animal testing bill passed in honor of her pet dog. At Washington, she works for the office of Congresswomen Victoria Rudd. There she must learn to overcome people’s misconceptions about her and learn to navigate the politics of Washington.
Concepts - Grace is reading Elle Woods profile to the other staff members. In that profile, Elle is describe as “one of the leading political minds of our time.” When Elle Woods does actually walk into the office, the rest of the staff are shocked to find that this is the same person as the description. Elle come in wearing an all pink outfit, which shocks the other members of the office. They are dismissive of her appearance, and they mistake her for an intern. All the other members wear dark or black colors. Grace, Congresswomen Rudd’s chief of staff, Grace also dismisses her intelligence by telling her slowly where the interns orientation is.
Grace and the other office staff have biases and stereotypes. They stereotype Elle Woods as a dumb blonde Barbie and calling her Capitol Barbie. Grace mocks her, calling her an intern and telling her where to go. Not only does her appearance shock the staff. Her personality also stands out. Elle Woods is a type A personality. However, the atmosphere at Washington is more serious, subdued. And Elle stands out there.
Personality has great effect on team group dynamics. It affects everything from the way each person communicates to how they go about their work. In designing teams, acknowledging each person’s personality similarities and differences can help get the best out of the team and can help forge team synergy. Each person can bring something unique to contribute.
Congresswomen Rudd says of her staff, “this is one of the most collaborative bunch on the Hill.” This is important because Elle and the rest of the staff have to learn to overcome their own perceptions and personality differences to work together on the bill. Although Elle is unconventional by Washington standards, she is actually smart and capable of the task. She just does things a little different, but her methods are effective. It takes a while for the team to see that, but they eventually give her respect.
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Below is a link to an article on visual perception. http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2003097,00.html Psychologist Simons and his student were doing a research on how the brain process visual information and stumbled upon a basic lapse in human visual perception - "inattentional blindness,”. That is the failure to see something conspicuous when focusing attention on something else.
The professor of the either the Organization Behavior or Marketing class conducted this experiment in the class and the results were so amazing. None of us saw the bear in the background. This experiment proves that we always see what we want to see and nothing else.
As I just wrote the blog about Po - The panda in movie King Fu panda 2, I just find out that most heroes are hardy person. They have sense of commitment, they can respond to difficulty as a challenge and an opportunity, and they have sense of control over one’s life.
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