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Rick H. Hoyle

Associate Director, Center for Child and Family Policy; Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience

The primary focus of Rick Hoyle's research program is self-regulation. He works from an integrative model of self-regulation that brings executive functioning, temperament, personality, and cognitive processing to bear on question about the role of self-regulation in adaptive and maladaptive behavior.

A social psychologist, Hoyle’s primary appointment is in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience. He completed undergraduate studies at Appalachian State University in 1983, and earned a PhD in psychology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1988. Prior to joining the faculty at Duke, he held a faculty appointment at the University of Kentucky.

Research Interests

• self-regulation
• personality processes
• research methods

Education:

• PhD University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill - 1988

Representative Publications   (More Publications)

1. Boynton, M. H., Arkes, J., & Hoyle, R. H. (2011). Brief report of a test of differential alcohol risk using sibling attributions of paternal alcoholism. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 72, 1037-1040.


2. Hoyle, R. H. (2011). Structural equation modeling for social and personality psychology.. London, UK: Sage Publications.


3. Gallagher, P., Flesson, W., & Hoyle, R. H. (2011). A self-regulatory mechanism for personality trait stability: Contra-trait effort. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 2, 333-342.


4. vanDellen, M. R., Campbell, W. K., Hoyle, R. H., & Bradfield, E. K. (2011). Conpensation, resisting, and breaking: A meta-analytic examination of reactions to self-esteem threat. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 15, 51-74.


5. vanDellen, M. R., Hoy, M. B., Fernandez, K., & Hoyle, R. H. (2011). Academic-contingent self-worth and the social monitoring system. Personality and Individual Differences, 50, 59-63.


6. vanDellen, M. R., & Hoyle, R. H. (2010). Regulatory accessibility and social influences on state self-control. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 36, 251-263.


7. Yang, C., Nay, S., & Hoyle, R. H. (2010). Three approaches to using lengthy ordinal scales in structural equation models: Parceling, latent scoring, and shortening scales. Applied Psychological Measurement, 34, 122-142.

Curriculum Vitae