Ashley J. Thomas

Thomas, A.J., Bourg, C, Saxe, R., Do researcher’s perceptions of the social dynamics in their field relate to their decisions to be open? American Chemical Society Meeting, Spring 2022

Thomas, A.J., Saxe, R., Spelke, E., Expanding Social Circles: Infants Recognize 'Thick' Social Relationships. Presented at the Society for Research on Child Development Conference, 2021

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Thomas, A.J., Woo, B., Spelke, E., Nettle, D., Saxe, R., Infants Infer 'Thick' Affiliation. Presented at the Society for Research on Child Development Conference, 2021

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Thomas, A.J., Saxe, R., Spelke, E. Infants use imitation but not comforting or social synchrony to evaluate those in social interactions. Presented at the Meeting for the Cognitive Science Society, 2020

Thomas, A.J., Sarnecka, B.W. (2019). Infants prefer those who 'bow out' of zero-sum conflicts. Presented at the 31st Human Behavior and Evolution Society, Boston, MA.

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Thomas, A.J., Abramyan, M., Lukowski, A., Thomsen, L., Sarnecka, B.W. (2017). Toddlers prefer those who win but not when they win by force. Presented at the 31st Human Behavior and Evolution Society, Boston, MA.

Thomas, A.J., Sumner, E., Sarnecka, B.W. (2019). Children Expect Leaders to Protect but not to Bully. Presented at the Society for Research on Child Development Conference, Baltimore, MD.

Thomas, A.J., Abramyan, M., Lukowski, A., Thomsen, L., Sarnecka, B.W. (2017). Toddlers like winners, but not bullies. Presented at the at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Atlanta, GA.

Thomas, A.J., Abramyan, M., Lukowski, A., Thomsen, L., Sarnecka, B.W. (2017). Toddlers like winners, but not bullies. Presented at the Evolutionary Psychology Pre-conference at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Atlanta, GA.

Thomas, A.J., Abramyan, M., Lukowski, A., Thomsen, L., Sarnecka, B.W. (2017). Toddlers like winners, but not bullies. Presented at the Naive Sociology Preconference at the Cognitive Development Society, Portland, OR.

Thomas, A.J., Sarnecka, B.W. (2017). Children Expect Leaders to be Protectors, Not Bullies.

Presented at the Cognitive Development Society, Portland, OR.

Thomas, A.J., Abramyan, M., Lukowski, A., Thomsen, L., Sarnecka, B.W. (2017). Toddlers like winners, but not bullies. Cognitive Development Society, Portland, OR.

Thomas, A.J., Abramyan, M., Lukowski, A., Thomsen, L., Sarnecka, B.W. (2017). Mighty or the Meek: Changes in social preferences across the first two years of life. Presented at the Society for Research on Child Development Conference, Austin, TX.

Thomas, A.J., Abramyan, M., Lukowski, A., Thomsen, L., Sarnecka, B.W. (2017). Mighty or the meek: Toddlers prefer novel, dominant individuals. Presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Antonio, TX. **Outstanding Poster Award**

Thomas, A.J., Abramyan, M., Lukowski, A., Thomsen, L., Sarnecka, B.W. (2017). Mighty or the Meek: Changes in social preferences across the first two years of life. Presented at the Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development, Budapest, Hungary.

Thomas, A.J., Piff, P., Sommerville, J., Sarnecka, B.W. (2017). Three to Five-year-old children prefer hierarchical dyads to non-hierarchical dyads. Presented at the Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development, Budapest, Hungary.

Thomas, A.J.,Abramyan, M., Lukowski, A., Thomsen, L., Sarnecka, B.W. (2016). Preferring the Mighty to the Meek. Toddlers Prefer Novel Dominant Agents. Presented at the 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Philadelphia, PA.

Thomas, A.J.,Abramyan, M., Lukowski, A., Thomsen, L., Sarnecka, B.W. (2016). Preferring the Mighty to the Meek. Toddlers Prefer Superiors to Subordinates. Presented at the 42nd annual Society for Philosophy and Psychology Conference, Austin, TX.

Thomas, A.J., Stanford, P.K., Sarnecka, B.W. (2016). No child left alone: Moral judgments about parents affect estimates of risk to children. Presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology Conference, San Diego, CA.

Thomas, A.J., Sarnecka, B.W. (2015). Children’s ideas about fairness. Do children believe in a meritocracy? Presented at the Symposium on Cognition and Language Development, Irvine, CA.

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Thomas, A.J., Sarnecka, B.W. (2015). Hard Work, Drive, or Talent? How children reason about the causes of scholastic success. Presented at the Society for Research in Child Development, Philadelphia, PA.

Thomas, A.J., Sarnecka, B.W. (2015). Is it the Thought that Counts? How children allocate rewards based on effort and outcome. Presented at the Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development, Budapest, Hungary.

Thomas, A.J., Sarnecka, B.W. (2014). Implicit Theories of Intelligence, Essentialism, and the Brain. Presented at the Symposium on Cognition and Language Development, Los Angeles, CA.

Negen, J., Thomas, A.J., Sarnecka, B.W. (2014). Young children hear more number words if they use number words themselves. Presented at the Meeting for the Jean Piaget Society, San Francisco, CA.