Blake Ebright-Jones

LIFE Fellow from 2022 to 2024, University of Michigan

PhD

Dissertation completed in March 2024

What Do We Get Out of College? Measuring and Teaching Critical Thinking Skills

(Advisor: Kai S. Cortina)

Selected Publications

Ebright-Jones, B. D., Cortina, K. S., Mahler, N., & Miller, K. F. (2025). Racialized reprimands: A mobile eye-tracking study on teachers’ responses to students’ norm-violating behaviors. Contemporary Educational Psychology, 80, Article 102351. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cedpsych.2025.102351

Isaacowitz, D. M., Ebright-Jones, B. D., & Polk, R. J. (2025). A new frame on emotion regulation in aging: The adaptive positive tactic shift. Current Directions in Psychological Science. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/09637214251349777

Gardner-Neblett, N., De Marco, A., & Ebright, B. D. (2023). Do Katie and Connor tell better stories than Aaliyah and Jamaal? Teachers’ perceptions of children's oral narratives as a function of race and narrative quality. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 62, 115–128. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecresq.2022.07.014