The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

What is social psychology? According to Kassin, Fein, and Markus (2014) social psychology is the technical study of how a person’s conduct, thoughts, and feelings are portrayed in a public situation. Therefore, every person will act differently depending on the individual motive and perspective. The movie The Hunger Games: Catching fire illustrated how the lower class were force to live in poverty. They had been force to leave in constant fear of being force to participate in a deadly game which took place every year. The game consisted of selecting two individuals from the 12 districts and placing them in an arena where they would fight till their death. In the following essay I will be discussing how Social Psychology is portrayed within the movie in five specific concepts: Self-disclosure, Egoistic, Empathy, Group

This factors can consist of the strength the group has in their agreement and commitments to achieve the goal (Kassin et al., 2014, p. 301). In The Hunger Games, Peeta and Katniss’ group cohesion is to terminate all remaining 3 members of the opposite team. Their objective is to run a wire from the beach to a tree located in the middle of the arena. They will then attach the wire to the tree and wait for the lighting to strike the tree at midnight. Once lighting strikes the tree the current will travel down the wire and onto the sandy beach electrocuting everyone on it. They believe the plan will work because they feel that once they leave the beach the other people will come out of hiding and onto the beach. Their group cohesion was achieved through their strong desire to live. They knew that if they work together they would be able to execute the plan which would then give them the upper hand within the games. Therefore, the consistency between the text and the movie is largely