Hey, lovely answer, I will take my time to go through all of this.
I currently research mental representation such as emotions in applied computing which is near-at-hand with ToM and although many of the theories seem intuitive, the replication crisis is something that really bothered me (since I come from a STEM background).
I will read through your post and definitely check the sources, thank you very much!
As for your last point, ToM+Autism might be one of the more interesting aspects of ToM research and as far as I can tell, we are far from conclusive theories.
I'm by no means an expert, I became interested when my ex-wife was being taught p-value rounding in her first year course, right before the Crisis became well-known, which with a background in statistics absolutely horrified me.
I haven't put in a huge effort to stay up-to-date, so hopefully the situation has improved some, but the community has seemed... Divided on whether or not replicating studies is even important.
I currently research mental representation such as emotions in applied computing which is near-at-hand with ToM and although many of the theories seem intuitive, the replication crisis is something that really bothered me (since I come from a STEM background).
I will read through your post and definitely check the sources, thank you very much!
As for your last point, ToM+Autism might be one of the more interesting aspects of ToM research and as far as I can tell, we are far from conclusive theories.