Abstract
As social animals that seek to manage their relations with others, we need to understand each other. Understanding here means the interpretation of overt behavior and communicated signals but also inferences about implicit thoughts and the prediction of future moves. These mental models of others that we build in our mind are usually unconscious and include naive theories of personality . However, at a higher level of cultural development, these unconscious and naive models may turn into conscious, conceptual and even scientific theories.
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Neuman, Y. (2016). Personality in a Nutshell: Understanding Who We Are. In: Computational Personality Analysis. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42460-6_2
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