“The Hunger Games” is a book written by Suzanne Collins that was also turned into a movie. The story follows the main character Katniss Everdeen as she participates in the deathly and horrible contest called the Hunger Games. The story is about a fictional county that is broken up and segregated into twelve districts and a capital. The people in the twelve districts are nothing less than mules for the capital and its people. Years prior there was a civil war that caused devastation to the districts and caused the Capital to create the Hunger Games as a reminder to all that the Capital rules with absolute power. The Hunger Games are an annual event that causes one boy and one girl from each district to be selected to fight in an area to the death until one lone tribute remains. It is barbaric and nothing less than a way to promote fear and regulation over the people of the districts. The game and the events involved throughout the movie are consumed with social psychology, kin selection, reciprocity and flight and fight are just a few social psychology concepts that are present in the movie. Katniss does in fact go on to win the games and it was made possible by her use of several social psychology concepts. In the early scenes of the movie they show that Katniss is very much the head of her family and that she is the one that makes sure her family has food. In addition to that, she has been the force keeping her mother and sister alive and well since the untimely death of her father. In the early scenes you watch as the people of district twelve prepare for the annual reaping (selection of tributes), Katniss and her sister Primrose are both possible tributes. Primrose is completely frightened and anxious over being picked; Katniss assures her that everything will be okay. As the reaping begins and the names are drawn Primrose is in fact selected, she is beside