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Has there been any work on how our internal representations of other people get built? I've only heard about the thin-slicing phenomenon but not much beyond that. I feel like sometimes people extrapolate pretty accurately -- like, "[person] would never do that" or "[person] will probably just say this" but I don't know how we know. I just kinda feel that a certain thing is something a certain person would do but I can't tell always what they did that makes me think so or that I'm simulating a state machine or anything.
Exercise: pick a sentence to tell someone you know well, perhaps asking a question. Write down ahead of time exactly what you think they might say. Make a few different variations if you feel like it. Then ask them and record exactly what they do say. Repeat. Let us know if you see anything interesting.
There's been some, yeah. I haven't been able to find anything that looks terribly deep or low-level yet, and very little taking a cognitive science rather than traditional psychology approach, but Google and Wikipedia have turned up a few papers.
This isn't my field, though; perhaps some passing psychologist or cognitive scientist would have a better idea of the current state of theory.