Assistant Professor
Degrees
Ph.D.-Social Psychology, UNC Greensboro (2024); M.S.-Psychology, University of Central Missouri (2020); B.A.-Psychology, Salisbury University (2015)
Year Appointed
2024
Courses - Fall
- Introduction to Psychology
- Personality & Principles of Measurement
- Seminar in Social Psychology
Biography
Dr. Stockus is a social psychologist whose research program examines social comparison, specifically, the big-fish-little-pond effect, which is the tendency for students with high-rank in low-rank schools to evaluate themselves more favorably than students with low-rank in high-rank schools. More broadly, Dr. Stockus studies the self and social perception, including political judgments, accuracy and bias, and the association between individual difference dimensions and consequential outcomes.