Pretty Little Liars- Psychology Analaysis Paper - 1741 Words

Introduction Pretty Little Liars is a television show based on a set of novels that focuses on the lives of four teenage girls and the struggles that they face daily. After the murder of their cliques Queen Bee, Alison, each girl begins to get harassed and an anonymous bully threatens to expose all of their secrets. They are abused mentally after what seems like a never ending search to discover who the anonymous person that is harassing them is. The strong relationship that the girls maintain through their anxiety ridden high school career shows us that friendship can help to keep you strong. We will be looking specifically at Abnormal Behavior demonstrated throughout the girls high school days; Social identity theory demonstrated by†¦show more content†¦There are many scenes where Alison has different hair colors and looks, and at one point she even takes on another identity. Her alter ego was a girl named Vivian Darkbloom, and Alison made Vivian into everything that she wanted to be, but wasn’t. There is one scene were Alison is talking to Hannah and she says â€Å"Sometimes I like pretending that I’m somebody else, haven’t you ever tried it?† (King, 2010). When Alison says this to Hannah, she says it in a tone of voice that makes the audience believe that Alison believed it was normal to take the place of another. The social identity theory is a theory developed by Henry Tajfel, in which Tajfel believes that who we are socially determines how many positive feelings we have towards ourselves. Basically, if we like where we stand socially, then we will like who we are and display happiness. In this theory, Tajfel labels the â€Å"in group† and the â€Å"out group† and says that we will always compare our â€Å"in group† to another’s â€Å"out group.† By comparing these groups, we develop a better personal view on ourselves (King, 2009). A big factor of the social identity theory is that the groups will tend to critique the differences of the groups, and overlook the similarities. A modern day example of the social identity theory would be your everyday high school cheerleaders versus band members. The cheerleaders think of themselves as the queen bees of the school,