**Sept 20. Week 5: Dynamic Systems Perspectives**
In which we discuss how the interactions of multiple components over time can yield surprising and complex new patterns, and how insights from “complexity science” and the analysis of systems changing over time can be applied to psychological phenomena.
**Readings**
Richardson, M. J., Dale, R., & Marsh, K. L. (2014). Complex dynamical systems in social and personality psychology. *Handbook of Research Methods in Social and Personality Psychology*, 253.
Mischel, W., & Shoda, Y. (1995). A cognitive-affective system theory of personality: reconceptualizing situations, dispositions, dynamics, and invariance in personality structure. *Psychological Review, 102*(2), 246-268.
Freeman, J. B., Penner, A. M., Saperstein, A., Scheutz, M., & Ambady, N. (2011). Looking the part: Social status cues shape race perception. *PloS one, 6*(9), e25107.
Schelling’s Neighborhood Segregation Model, as an interactive blog post:
http://ncase.me/polygons/
For the truly ambitious (optional):
Richardson, D. C., Dale, R., & Kirkham, N. Z. (2007). The art of conversation is coordination. *Psychological Science, 18*(5), 407-413.
