| 2025 | CogSci | Children's Expectations of Emotional Intimacy in Close Relationships. | Megan Richardson, Ashley J. Thomas |
| 2025 | CogSci | When to speak up: How children reason about group dynamics. | Mack Briscoe, Ashley J. Thomas |
| 2025 | CogSci | Do children use action frequency to infer social closeness? | Min Yeshara Feldman, Mack Briscoe, Ashley J. Thomas |
| 2025 | CogSci | 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 |
| 2025 | CogSci | Written in Stone: Lay intuitions about the emergence of formal rules. | Hannah Hok, Ashley J. Thomas, Rebecca Saxe |
| 2025 | CogSci | Helping and hindering guide infants' expectations about future behavior. | Bill Pepe, Brandon Woo, Ashley J. Thomas, Lindsey J. Powell |
| 2025 | CogSci | Do People Value Plants Over Non-Living Entities? Moral Considerations in Adults and Young Children. | Lizette Pizza, Ashley J. Thomas |
| 2025 | CogSci | Navigating Family Ties: Young Children's Cognitive Representations of the Family Network. | Christina Steele, Ashley J. Thomas |
| 2025 | CogSci | Social Engagement Leads Infants to Represent People as Individuals. | Brandon Woo, Haowei Peng, Christina Steele, Ashley J. Thomas |
| 2025 | CogSci | Children Expect Emotional Consolation to Occur in Close Relationships. | Emma Yu, Kana Tsuruta, Audrey Alice King, Ashley J. Thomas |
| 2024 | CogSci | Caregiver presence promotes judgements of exploration. | Annya L. Dahmani, Dorsa Amir, Ashley J. Thomas, Alison Gopnik |
| 2024 | CogSci | Early Threads of Connection: Probing Infants' Early Understandings of Caregiving Relationships. | Christina Steele, Megan Richardson, Azwayla Taylor, Denis Tatone, Ashley J. Thomas |
| 2024 | CogSci | Children Expect People to Accurately Represent the Minds of Their Close Social Partners. | Brandon Woo, Emma Yu, Ashley J. Thomas |
| 2023 | CogSci | Infants Infer Social Relationships between Individuals who Engage in Imitative Social Interactions. | Vanessa Kudrnova, Elizabeth S. Spelke, Ashley J. Thomas |
| 2022 | CogSci | Modeling risky food sharing as rational communication about relationships. | Michelle Simona Hung, Ashley J. Thomas, Setayesh Radkani, Josh Tenenbaum, Rebecca Saxe |
| 2020 | CogSci | Infants use imitation but not comforting or social synchrony to evaluate those in social interactions. | Ashley J. Thomas, Rebecca Saxe, Elizabeth S. Spelke |
| 2016 | CogSci | Preferring the Mighty to the Meek: Toddlers prefer Superior to Subordinate Individuals. | Ashley J. Thomas, Meline Abramyan, Angela Lukowski, Lotte Thomsen, Barbara W. Sarnecka |