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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.

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In the News


Published December 19, 2023
What Mastermind can tell us about blinking
Published November 17, 2023
BBC quiz show with Gestapo-inspired design offers study on stress responses
Published November 17, 2023
TV Quiz Shows Shed Light on Human Physiology Under Stress

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Recent Publications


The psychophysiology of Mastermind: Characterizing response times and blinking in a high-stakes television game show.

Journal Article Psychophysiology · March 2024 Television game shows have proven to be a valuable resource for studying human behavior under conditions of high stress and high stakes. However, previous work has focused mostly on choices-ignoring much of the rich visual information that is available on ... Full text Cite
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