Overview
Skyler is a PhD Student 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, how we adapt to mistakes and failure, and secondary cognitive appraisal (evaluating stressors positively, as a challenge, vs negatively, as a threat).
His research interests focus on motivation, self-regulation, how we adapt to mistakes and failure, and secondary cognitive appraisal (evaluating stressors positively, as a challenge, vs negatively, as a threat).