Christopher Stockus

Dr. Christopher Stockus serves as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Marietta College, appointed in 2024. His office is located in Mills 403 on campus.

Dr. Stockus' educational background includes:

• Ph.D. in Social Psychology from UNC Greensboro (2024)
• M.S. in Psychology from University of Central Missouri (2020)
• B.A. in Psychology from Salisbury University (2015)

His teaching responsibilities for the Fall semester encompass Introduction to Psychology, Personality & Principles of Measurement, Social Psychology, The Teaching of Psychology, and Directed Research Thesis I.

As a social psychologist, Dr. Stockus' research program examines social comparison phenomena, with particular focus on the big-fish-little-pond effect—the tendency for students with high academic standing in lower-ranked institutions to evaluate themselves more favorably than students with lower standing in higher-ranked institutions. His broader research interests span self and social perception processes, political judgment formation, cognitive accuracy and bias, and the relationship between individual difference dimensions and consequential life outcomes.