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The New School · Psychology

11.9% of The New School's Psychology course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Psychology departments, it is 2.5%.

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The New School: 11.9% Psychology at all 100 schools: 2.5% each other school in the comparison

Where Psychology courses fall

10%Far left92–100
44%Left75–91
42%Center-left59–74
2%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
2%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
50 plotted courses (the ones with a political subject). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right. Subject places what a course studies, not the side it takes.

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Subject places what a course studies, not the side it takes. A course on slavery or the Holocaust lands far right and a course on Marx or the Soviet Union lands far left, whether the course praises, criticizes or simply describes it.

Furthest-left subjects

GPSY 6368 · Psych of Women & Gender92

Psychology

Over the past 30 years, feminists have transformed the field of psychology. Feminist psychologists have challenged how we study, what we study, and what we know about the lives of women, men, and gender non-conforming individuals. This…

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GPSY 7028 · Critical Theory in Clinical Work92

Psychology

This PhD-level course will introduce students to an interdisciplinary body of "critical theories"--including Critical Race Theory, Decolonial studies, Marxism, intersectional feminist and queer theories--and its engagement by psychoanalytic…

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GPSY 7030 · Decolonial Psychoanalysis: Foundations to Theory, Research and Practice92

Psychology

In this advanced seminar, students will be introduced to a decolonial perspective to psychoanalytic theory and practice that critically reimagines Freud, Ferenczi, and Lacan through the lens of the revolutionary Martiniquan psychiatrist…

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Furthest-right subjects

NPSY 3630 · Trauma Politics and Culture17

Psychology

This course will address the psychological impact and consequences of trauma on the political, cultural and psychological life of a community and a society. This course will examine the relationship between individual and collective trauma…

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Why this number, in plain words

Share of courses described from the left. Percent of all courses in the group whose Framing reading is leftward: the description frames its subject one-sidedly to the left.

Counted: all courses in the group, including N and I. No interval is published for this number.

  • Readings are of catalog description text, not of teaching, syllabi or individual professors.
Details: exact rows, definitions and method
NameMetricValue95% intervalnscored
The New School · Psychologybias_left_share11.9—328—
Psychologybias_left_share2.52.2 – 2.89,330—
Formula
100 * count(bias_cat = 'L') / n
Interval
Wilson score 95% (wilson_interval)
Model / prompt / snapshot
gpt-5.6-sol · r12 (2026-10-16-le49-r12) · 6df50b10
Metric caveats
Right-framed courses are almost absent (33 of 124,290); this run cannot tell catalog reality from model sensitivity. Compare schools with adjusted_ratio, not this raw share, because department mix differs.

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