Overview
Skyler is a PhD Candidate and National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellow at Duke University working with Dr. James Shah and Dr. Rick Hoyle in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience.
His research interests focus on motivation, self-regulation, and how we adapt to mistakes and failure. His work centers on how people think about their own motivation and others' motivation, and the impact this has on self-regulatory behavior, interpersonal dynamics, and goal pursuit. In particular, he studies how people make inferences of others' motivation as a function of their own motivational state, considering the contextual and interpersonal conditions of motivation projection. His research also explores how people’s meta-beliefs about the nature of motivation—the control they have over it, and how they think it changes as they pursue their goals—affect their self-regulatory behavior.
