Anita Jones Thomas

Datos Biográficos

ID78579
NOMBREAnita Jones Thomas
NOMBRESAnita Jones
APELLIDOThomas
FIRMATHOMAS A J
AFILIACIONESNortheastern Illinois University
ORCID0000-0003-1239-883X
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS23
TOTAL DE CITAS548
TOTAL COMO AUTOR23
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1997
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H10

  • Support for open science is equally high in opt-in versus representative samples of scientists from a research-focused US university

    Open AccessAnita Jones Thomas, Hannah Hok et al.ARTICLEQuantitative Science Studies2026

    Many studies on open science attitudes and practice use opt-in samples. This strategy poses a problem: It is unclear whether and to what degree scholars who opt in to surveys about open science are more likely to support open science, compared to the whole population of scholars. Thus, high levels of support for open science in prior surveys might reflect self-selection bias (Heckman, 1990). In the current study, we compare attitudes toward open …

  • Abstract core knowledge may shape the basins of cultural attraction

    Open AccessHossein Samani, Anita Jones Thomas et al.ARTICLEEvolution and Human Behavior2026Referencias: 34

  • Developing Intuitions That Close Friends Know the Content of Each Other’s Minds

    Open AccessBrandon Matthew Woo, Emma Yu et al.ARTICLEOpen MIND2025

    To maintain and develop close relationships, people need to accurately represent the minds of their social partners. Although studies have characterized many aspects of children’s intuitive theory of the mind and children’s intuitive theory of relationships, it is largely unknown whether and how children think about mental state reasoning within relationships. In three experiments, we asked whether children think accurate mental state reasoning i…

  • How Do Infants Experience Caregiving

    Open AccessAnita Jones Thomas, Ashley J Thomas et al.ARTICLEDaedalus2025

    Almost all of human infants’ experience and learning takes place in the context of caregiving relationships. This essay considers how infants understand the care they receive. We begin by outlining plausible features of an “intuitive theory” of care. In this intuitive theory, caregiving has both a distinctive foundational structure and distinctive features that differentiate it from other social relationships. We then review methods and findings …

  • Infants Infer Social Relationships Between Individuals Who Engage in Imitative Social Interactions

    Open AccessVanessa Kudrnova, Elizabeth S Spelke et al.ARTICLEOpen MIND2024

    Infants are born into rich social networks and are faced with the challenge of learning about them. When infants observe social interactions, they make predictions about future behavior, but it is not clear whether these predictions are based on social dispositions, social relationships, or both. The current studies (N = 188, N = 90 males) address this question in 12-month-old infants and 16- to 18-month-old toddlers who observe social interactio…

  • Intuitive Sociology

    Open AccessAnita Jones Thomas, Vivian Mitchell et al.ARTICLEOpen MIND2022

    From an early age, children recognize that people belong to social groups. However, not all groups are structured in the same way. The current study asked whether children recognize and distinguish among different decision-making structures. If so, do they prefer some decision-making structures over others? In these studies, children were told stories about two groups that went camping. In the hierarchical group, one character made all the decisi…

  • Ideology Matters

    Open AccessSha’kema Blackmon, Sha’kema M Blackmon et al.ARTICLEThe Counseling Psychologist2019Citada por: 2Referencias: 53

    Building on previous theory and research, we explored the associations among race, intergroup ideologies and emotional reactions to the killing of Trayvon Martin and the acquittal of George Zimmerman among 298 Black and White college students. We also examined the indirect effect of ethnocultural empathy on the links between race, intergroup ideologies, and emotional responding. Using latent class analysis, we identified three latent intergroup i…

  • Toddlers prefer those who win but not when they win by force

    Open AccessAnita Jones Thomas, Lotte Thomsen et al.ARTICLENature Human Behaviour2018Citada por: 3Referencias: 57

    Social hierarchies occur across human societies, so all humans must navigate them. Infants can detect when one individual outranks another1–3, but it is unknown whether they approach others based on their social status. This paper presents a series of seven experiments investigating whether toddlers prefer high- or low-ranking individuals. Toddlers aged 21–31 months watched a zero-sum, right-of-way conflict between two puppets, in which one puppe…

  • No Child Left Alone

    Open AccessAnita Jones Thomas, Ashley J Thomas et al.ARTICLECollabra2016

    In recent decades, Americans have adopted a parenting norm in which every child is expected to be under constant direct adult supervision. Parents who violate this norm by allowing their children to be alone, even for short periods of time, often face harsh criticism and even legal action. This is true despite the fact that children are much more likely to be hurt, for example, in car accidents. Why then do bystanders call 911 when they see child…

  • Confirmatory evidence for a multidimensional model of racial-ethnic socialization for transracially adoptive families

    Kimberly J Langrehr, Anita Jones Thomas et al.ARTICLECultural Diversity & Ethnic…2016Citada por: 4Referencias: 13

    Findings are intended to help expand the concept of racial-ethnic socialization for transracially adoptive families and address the degree to which current research on racial-ethnic socialization can be applied to different transracially adoptive families. Results are intended to highlight ways that various social-cultural dimensions of family can culminate into different socialization experiences. (PsycINFO Database Record

  • The Influence of the Trayvon Martin Shooting on Racial Socialization Practices of African American Parents

    Open AccessAnita Jones Thomas, Anita Thomas et al.ARTICLEJournal of Black Psychology2015Citada por: 90Referencias: 28

    Many perceived the death of Trayvon Martin as racially motivated. We hypothesized that hearing about the death of Trayvon Martin also had an effect on African American parents. This qualitative investigation explored African American parents' perceptions of the death of Trayvon Martin and how it affected the provision of racial socialization. The analysis indicated that a number of parents felt that Trayvon Martin's death was a form of racial pro…

  • Factor Analysis of the Parent Experience of Racial Socialization Scale

    Open AccessAnita Jones Thomas, Anita Thomas et al.ARTICLEJournal of Black Psychology2014Citada por: 8Referencias: 19

    This investigation examined the factor structure and validity evidence for the Parent Experience of Racial Socialization Scale (PERS). Exploratory factor analysis found four interpretable factors accounting for 40% of the variance in the racial socialization construct. The identified factors were religion and spirituality, alertness to discrimination, mainstream, and cultural pride and coping. Correlation analyses indicated negative relationships…

  • Contextual Influences on Gendered Racial Identity Development of African American Young Women

    Open AccessAnita Jones Thomas, Anita Thomas et al.ARTICLEJournal of Black Psychology2013Citada por: 8Referencias: 12

    The aim of the study was to identify the contextual factors and socialization experiences most salient to the identity development of African American girls. Seventeen African American young women participated in dyadic focus groups. Themes that emerged included exposure to stereotypes, negative classroom environments, and parental and peer socialization that fostered self-determination and positive identity development. Implications for interven…

  • Gendered Racial Identity of Black Young Women

    Open AccessAnita Jones Thomas, Anita Thomas et al.ARTICLESex Roles2011Citada por: 52Referencias: 9

  • I'm No Jezebel; I am Young, Gifted, and Black

    Open AccessTiffany G Townsend, Torsten B Neilands et al.ARTICLEPsychology of Women Quarterly2010Citada por: 41Referencias: 15

    Scholars have highlighted the detrimental influence of racially charged stereotypes and images on self-perception and well being. Others have suggested that identity components (e.g., ethnic identity and self-concept) serve a protective function. The purposes of this study were (a) to explore the relationship among stereotypic images, beauty standards that are consistent with “colorism,” and identity components of African American girls and (b) t…

  • Racial Socialization, Racial Identity, and Race-Related Stress of African American Parents

    Open AccessAnita Jones Thomas, Anita Thomas et al.ARTICLEThe Family Journal2010Citada por: 17Referencias: 27

    This study examines the relationship between racial identity, race-related stress, and racial socialization messages of over 400 African American parents. Results suggest that parents with higher levels of private regard or pride about being African American, and nationalist ideology are more likely to give racial socialization messages. Parents who have experienced race-related stress are also more likely to engage in racial socialization. Addit…

  • Gendered racism, psychological distress, and coping styles of African American women

    Anita Jones Thomas, Anita Thomas et al.ARTICLECultural Diversity & Ethnic…2008Citada por: 117Referencias: 11

    This study explores the relationship of the accumulative effect of gendered racism, the discrimination felt by African American women, on psychological distress. The study also explores whether coping serves as a mediating variable between gendered racism and psychological distress. Over 300 African American women participated in the study and were administered the Symptoms Checklist 90, a revised version of the Schedule of Sexist Events, and the…

  • Gendered Racial Socialization of African American Mothers and Daughters

    Open AccessAnita Jones Thomas, Anita Thomas et al.ARTICLEThe Family Journal2007Citada por: 73Referencias: 6

    African American girls face unique challenges in identity development, and African American mothers have the unique task of preparing them to face racism and sexism. This study examines specific socialization messages given to African American daughters by mothers and the relationship between gendered racial socialization and communication. Results suggest that mothers give a variety of messages, including self-determination, self-pride, and reli…

  • Toward the Development of the Stereotypic Roles for Black Women Scale

    Open AccessAnita Jones Thomas, Anita Thomas et al.ARTICLEJournal of Black Psychology2004Citada por: 39Referencias: 30

    Preliminary findings on the validation of the Stereotypic Roles for Black Women Scale (SRBWS) are presented. A sample of 186 African American women took the SRBWS along with the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale and the Racial Identity Attitude Scale-B. A confirmatory factor analysis supported a four-factor structure of the scale, and moderate reliability estimates were found for each of the interrelated but distinct subscales. Stepwise regression anal…

  • African American Women's Spiritual Beliefs

    Anita Jones Thomas, Anita ThomasARTICLEWomen & Therapy2001Citada por: 5Referencias: 6

    Spirituality and religious beliefs and practices have been used as a coping resource for African American women, along with Afrocentric values and beliefs. Many of the spiritual beliefs interact with stereotypes and images that have evolved from the legacy of slavery, specifically, Mammy, Sapphire, and Jezebel. The internalization of these images may lead to identity issues and psychological symptoms. Culturally sensitive treatment of African Ame…

  • Impact of Racial Identity on African American Child-Rearing Beliefs

    Open AccessAnita Jones Thomas, Anita ThomasARTICLEJournal of Black Psychology2000Citada por: 13Referencias: 15

    This study explores the impact of racial identity attitudes on African American parents' child-rearing beliefs. Specifically, the study seeks to understand differences on family ties, discipline, independence, obedience, and religion according to racial identity attitudes. Participants were 104 parents who were administered the Black Parental Attitude Scale and the Racial Identity Attitude Scale. Results indicate that parents with immersion attit…

  • Racial Identity and Racial Socialization Attitudes of African American Parents

    Open AccessAnita Jones Thomas, Anita Thomas et al.ARTICLEJournal of Black Psychology1999Citada por: 55Referencias: 17

    This study explores racial socialization messages used by African American parents, specific messages according to the gender of children, and the relationship between racial socialization and racial identity attitudes as measured by the Racial Identity Attitude Scale. One hundred four African American parents participated in the study. Racial socialization was seen as important to the vast majority of parents and they reported a wide variety of …

  • Racial Identity Attitudes, School Achievement, and Academic Self-Efficacy Among African American High School Students

    Open AccessKaren Mccurtis Witherspoon, Suzette L Speight et al.ARTICLEJournal of Black Psychology1997Citada por: 21Referencias: 13

    Literature has postulated that African American students often choose not to succeed in school because achievement is seen as acting White. This study examined the extent to which racial identity, self-esteem, and academic self-concept were related to academic achievementfor 86African American high school students. The majority of students indicated supportfrom both peers and parents for their academic work. Multiple regression analysis indicated…