Ashley J. Thomas

According to our database, Ashley J. Thomas authored at least 17 papers between 2016 and 2025.

Collaborative distances:

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2025

Children Expect Emotional Consolation to Occur in Close Relationships.

Emma Yu, Kana Tsuruta, Audrey Alice King, Ashley J. Thomas

Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2025

Social Engagement Leads Infants to Represent People as Individuals.

Brandon Woo, Haowei Peng, Christina Steele, Ashley J. Thomas

Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2025

Navigating Family Ties: Young Children's Cognitive Representations of the Family Network.

Christina Steele, Ashley J. Thomas

Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2025

Do People Value Plants Over Non-Living Entities? Moral Considerations in Adults and Young Children.

Lizette Pizza, Ashley J. Thomas

Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2025

Helping and hindering guide infants' expectations about future behavior.

Bill Pepe, Brandon Woo, Ashley J. Thomas, Lindsey J. Powell

Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2025

Written in Stone: Lay intuitions about the emergence of formal rules.

Hannah Hok, Ashley J. Thomas, Rebecca Saxe

Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2025

Preliminary Evidence that Infants and Children Use Accents to Inform Relational Expectations.

Denisse Lopez Flores, Christina Steele, Dhanishtha Upadhyay, Paola Lee-Vega, Ashley J. Thomas

Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2025

Do children use action frequency to infer social closeness?

Min Yeshara Feldman, Mack Briscoe, Ashley J. Thomas

Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2025

When to speak up: How children reason about group dynamics.

Mack Briscoe, Ashley J. Thomas

Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2025

Children's Expectations of Emotional Intimacy in Close Relationships.

Megan Richardson, Ashley J. Thomas

Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2025

2024

Children Expect People to Accurately Represent the Minds of Their Close Social Partners.

Brandon Woo, Emma Yu, Ashley J. Thomas

Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2024

Early Threads of Connection: Probing Infants' Early Understandings of Caregiving Relationships.

Christina Steele, Megan Richardson, Azwayla Taylor, Denis Tatone, Ashley J. Thomas

Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2024

Caregiver presence promotes judgements of exploration.

Annya L. Dahmani, Dorsa Amir, Ashley J. Thomas, Alison Gopnik

Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2024

2023

Infants Infer Social Relationships between Individuals who Engage in Imitative Social Interactions.

Vanessa Kudrnova, Elizabeth S. Spelke, Ashley J. Thomas

Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2023

2022

Modeling risky food sharing as rational communication about relationships.

Michelle Simona Hung, Ashley J. Thomas, Setayesh Radkani, Josh Tenenbaum, Rebecca Saxe

Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2022

2020

Infants use imitation but not comforting or social synchrony to evaluate those in social interactions.

Ashley J. Thomas, Rebecca Saxe, Elizabeth S. Spelke

Proceedings of the 42th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2020

2016

Preferring the Mighty to the Meek: Toddlers prefer Superior to Subordinate Individuals.

Ashley J. Thomas, Meline Abramyan, Angela Lukowski, Lotte Thomsen, Barbara W. Sarnecka

Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2016