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, failure adaptation, and implicit beliefs. He examines goals as regulatory guides and knowledge structures, investigating how motivation, cognition, and underlying beliefs about these processes shape goal pursuit, subjective experience, interpersonal dynamics, and behavioral outcomes.
His research interests focus on motivation, self-regulation, failure adaptation, and implicit beliefs. He examines goals as regulatory guides and knowledge structures, investigating how motivation, cognition, and underlying beliefs about these processes shape goal pursuit, subjective experience, interpersonal dynamics, and behavioral outcomes.